Hibiscus flowers

Hibiscus flowers

(rihuazi materia medica)

[synonym] plum blossom (Ling Wai Dai DA), morning blooming and evening falling flowers (compendium), malaria flower (Qunfang PU), fence flower, Trumpet Flower (Chinese tree taxonomy), white jade flower (Fujian folk herbal medicine), fence flower, pig oil flower (folk herbal medicine Collection), bowl flower (Jiangxi traditional Chinese Medicine), Erigeron breviscapus (Hunan medicinal records), white rice flower, white flour flower (Fufang) Chinese herbal medicine (TCM).

[source] the flower bud of Hibiscus syriacus (Malvaceae) is described in the "Hibiscus skin" section.

[collection] in the morning of sunny day, the flowers were picked when they were half open and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried flowers shrink into oval or cylindrical clusters, about 3 cm in length and 1.5 cm in diameter. There are gray green calyx at the bottom, dense fine villi on the surface and 5-lobed margin. Calyx outside several gray green linear bracts. It often has short petioles. Petals white, with 5 or more laminated, folded. There are yellow stamens in the middle, and most stamens unite into a cylinder, surrounding the pistil. Light in weight, slightly fragrant and sweet in taste. It is better to have big flower and white color.

Produced in Jiangsu, Hubei, Sichuan, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and other places.

[chemical constituents] it contains SAPONARIN, inositol and mucin.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cool.

① Rihuazi materia medica: "cool. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "the nature is slightly cold, the taste is slightly bitter, and the taste is flat. "

③ "Gangmu": "sweet, smooth, non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] 1. Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and lung meridians. "

② Summary of materia medica: "enter the hand foot Taiyin and Jueyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, removing dampness and cooling blood. The treatment of intestinal wind, diarrhea, dysentery, leucorrhea.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it is used to treat intestinal wind, diarrhea and blood, red and white dysentery, and baked as medicine; it is used to treat wind by making soup instead of tea. "

② "Gangmu": "eliminate sores and swelling, facilitate urination, remove dampness and heat. "

3. "Herbal medicine reunion": "can remove all heat, slide can lead to stagnation, good cure red and white diarrhea, dry and poor, falling down to solve and puzzled," tamping juice and Baijiu "warm drink. "

④ "This Jing meets the original": "the red person treats the intestinal wind blood dysentery, the white person treats the leucorrhea white dysentery. "

⑤ Anhui herbal medicine: "treating skin diseases. "

⑥ "Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine": "white flowers and sparrow cooked together can stop nosebleed. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan (fresh 1-2 Liang); Yanshu, 0.5-1 yuan.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat diarrhea: remove the pedicel of Hibiscus syriacus, dry in the shade as the end, fry two flour cakes first, and dip them in the end. (Ji Ji Xian Fang)

② Treatment of red and white dysentery: Hibiscus flower one or two (children halved), fried in water, mixed with white honey three times. Red dysentery with safflower, white dysentery with white flower, avoid acid cold. (prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in Yunnan)

③ Treatment of hematemesis, lower blood, red white dysentery: Hibiscus Flower 9 to 13. Drink boiled water and rock sugar for half an hour, take it before meals, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of wind and phlegm: Hibiscus flower drying, baking research, each take one or two spoons, hollow boiling soup, white flower is particularly good. (simple formula)

⑤ Treatment of nausea: Chiba hibiscus, dried in the shade for the end, Chen rice soup to send three or five; do not turn, and then the rice drink transfer service. (Pocket recipe Hibiscus powder)

⑥ Rule woman leucorrhea: Hibiscus spend two money, for the end, milk mix, steamed cooked food on the rice. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

⑦ Treatment of boils: Hibiscus (fresh) amount, a little sweet wine, mashed topical. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of bacillary dysentery

Wash and dry hibiscus, grind and set aside. 2 g each time, children take it every 2 hours, 3-5 days as a course of treatment. In 300 cases, the symptoms were controlled in 96.3%. Generally, the body temperature dropped rapidly and the stool improved in 2-3 days.