Willow root

Willow root

(classified materia medica)

[synonyms] yangliuxu (Tianbao materia medica), shuiliuxu (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine), honglongxu (revised Tianbao materia medica), fenshuiweng (collection of commonly used folk herbs), qinglongxu (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] roots and roots of Salix babylonica. See "willow branch" for plant morphology.

[collection] all year round.

Bitter, cold.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "bitter taste, cold. "

② "The picture of Materia Medica in South Yunnan" says: "it tastes sweet, cold and nontoxic. "

[function indications] diuretic, Tonglin, Qufeng, dehumidification. Treatment of gonorrhea, turbidity, edema, jaundice, rheumatic pain, yellow water wet sores, toothache, burns.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "treat Wulin, white turbidity. "

② "The picture of Materia Medica in the south of Yunnan" says: "it can cure the blood under the large intestine. "

③ Compendium: "decocting and taking it can cure jaundice and white turbidity; boiling and ironing with wine can relieve pain and swelling, remove wind and relieve pain and swelling. "

④ "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "dispelling wind and removing dampness, treating heat dysentery, collapse, band, limb contracture, tendon pain, soup fire, toothache. "

⑤ Classification of herbal medicine: treating edema. "

⑥ "Experimental study of traditional Chinese medicine": "treatment of yellow water dampness, hemorrhoids, drenching turbidity, itching in stem. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: smoked in boiling water or hot pressed in wine.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of yellow water dampness sores: Salix must be burned and preserved, and then ground and mixed with sesame oil. (experimental research of traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of earache has pus does not come out, and carbuncle has gathered: willow root cut, cooked Chui, sealed, covered with silk, dry is easy. (doumenfang)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids: shuiliuxuer, Sanliang. Fry in boiling water, add three coins of sodium bicarbonate, fry several more rolls, pour into the pot or basin; use another round barrel, put the pot in the barrel, sit on the barrel, let the medicine gas smoke into the anus, cool until the dregs are fried again, smoke twice a day. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of wind fire toothache: willow to five to seven money. Pig meat two, three two stew, to decoction medicine service. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment gall disease: willow root 30 jin. With water a Dendrobium, boil five Dou, with rice three Dou brew, wine into, first food service one liter, three days. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

⑥ Treatment of blood collapse: red dragon needs five money. A cup of sweet wine. (Guizhou traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions)