Chiu Qie CAI

Chiu Qie CAI

(Jiayou materia medica)

[synonyms] Rencai (bielu), beet (rihuazi materia medica), cowhide (Diannan materia medica), Shicai (Bencao Qiuyuan), dipper, pig? CAI (Guangzhou flora), Guangcai (Chinese vegetable cultivation).

[source] stems and leaves of yingselai, a Li plant.

[plant morphology] eggplant

The stem is smooth or glabrous when it is 2 years old. The leaves are alternate, with long stalks; the root leaves are ovate or oblong ovate, up to 30-40 cm long, with blunt apex, wedge-shaped or heart-shaped base, wavy margin; the stem leaves are rhombic, ovate, obovate or oblong, smaller, and the apical bracts become linear; the leaves are fleshy, light green or dark green, and purplish red. Flowers small, bisexual; green, sessile, solitary or 2-3-flowered, in a long, weak, spreading panicle; bracts intercalated, short pointed; perianth 5-lobed, lobes oblong, apex obtuse, base thickened when fruiting; stamens 5-lobed. It is located around the ovary; the ovary is semi inferior and the style is 2-3. The fruit is usually aggregated, which is formed by two or more flowers, and forms a very irregular dry body (often mistaken for seed): each seed is contained in the hard shell formed by the disk and perianth. Seeds transverse, rounded or reniform. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is July.

It is commonly cultivated in the South and southwest of China. In Sichuan, the kernel vegetable with red stem and leaf is used as medicine, which is called red cowhide vegetable.

The seeds of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

Sweet and cool.

① Bielu: "sweet and bitter, cold. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "cold, nontoxic. "

③ Jiadiao materia medica: "it's flat and slightly poisonous. "

④ "Saving wasteland Materia Medica": "it tastes salty, cold and slightly toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. In Diannan materia medica: "entering Yangming Scripture. "

② Summary of materia medica: "enter the hand foot Taiyin meridian. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. It can cure measles, dysentery due to heat toxin, menorrhea, and carbuncle.

① "Bielu": "when treating, it can strengthen heat and relieve wind heat toxin. "

② Tang materia medica: "Xia Yue uses its vegetables to make porridge, which can relieve fever and stop dysentery. Tamping moxibustion sore, pain. "

③ "Materia medica collection": "if you take it with mashed juice, you will suffer from cold and hot diarrhea. And hemostasis muscle, people have injuries, apply it. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "stir fried for hot water, appetizer, Tongxin diaphragmatic. "

⑤ Jiadiao materia medica: "tonifying the middle and lower Qi, regulating the temper, removing the headwind and benefiting the five zang organs. "

⑥ According to suixiju diet, it is suitable for women and children to clear fire, dispel wind, kill insects and detoxify, remove dirt, thin acne, stop menstruation, and cure dysentery. "

⑦ Collection of commonly used folk herbs: "clearing heat and promoting blood circulation. Treat anal swelling and pain. "

⑧ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "in the early stage of treating measles, the spots are not transparent and the color is not red, and women's amenorrhea and stasis, hematoma and anal swelling and pain are treated. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 2-4 Liang); or mashed juice. External use: tamping.

[should avoid] spleen deficiency diarrhea should not be taken.

① Jiadiao materia medica: "do not eat too much. If you are angry, you will suffer from abdominal cold first. If you eat, you will break your abdomen. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it's harmful but not beneficial to eat phlegm. It is not suitable to eat if there is accumulation in the abdomen, and it is not suitable to eat more if there is no accumulation. "

③ According to Ben Cao Qiu Zhen, "if people with spleen deficiency take it, they will suffer from abdominal pain; if people with Qi deficiency take it, they will worry about moving Qi; if people with smooth intestine take it, they will worry about diarrhea. "

[formula selection] 1. For adults and children with measles, the treatment period is impenetrable: Red cowhide, coriander seed and cherry seed are 3 yuan each, fried in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of hematemesis: Red cowhide, Bletilla striata, stewed pig meat. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)