Candlelight leaf

Candlelight leaf

(new edition of Materia Medica)

[synonym] nanzhuzhiye (Kaibao materia medica).

[source] it is the leaf of Vaccinium bracteatum. For plant morphology, please refer to "South candle".

[collection] harvest from August to September, collect twigs and impurities, and dry them in the sun. Store in a dry place.

[herbal medicine] the dried leaves are oblong to lanceolate, sharp at both ends, with thin serrations at the edge. They are 2-6 cm in length and 1-2.5 cm in width. They are leathery and glossy, with dark brown on the top, sunken main veins on the bottom, and prominent main veins and lateral veins on the bottom. The leaves have short stalks, and most of them bend backward. It's crispy. Qi is weak, taste astringent and bitter.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[chemical constituents] it contains TRIACONTANE, terpenoid, epiterpenol, quercetin, isoorientin, p-hydroxycinnamic acid and mesoinositol

[flavor] sour and astringent, flat.

① Kaibao materia medica: "bitter, flat, non-toxic. "

② Compendium: "sour and astringent. "

[Guijing] Bencao Jingshu: "entering the heart, spleen and kidney. "

Functions and indications: tonifying essence and Qi, strengthening muscles and bones, improving eyesight and stopping discharge.

① "Materia medica collection": "stop discharge, remove sleep, strengthen tendons, benefit strength. "　

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "it is beneficial to the intestines and stomach, soaked and steamed with mashed juice, and dried in the sun. "

③ Ben Cao Hui Yan: "replenish qi and essence, cool blood and nourish tendons. "

[usage and dosage] take orally; decoct Soup for 2-3 yuan; boil cream or put into pill or powder.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure all wind diseases, take long-term clothes to improve eyesight: five Jin of nanzhushu (take branches and leaves in spring and summer, root and skin in autumn and winter, choose fine file). Five buckets of water. Decoct two dippers at low heat, remove dross, and do not decoct them in a clean pan. Decoct them at low heat as if they were thin, that is, in a porcelain vase. Each serving, with warm wine - teaspoon, three times a day. (Shenghui recipe fried in South candle)

② It can help Yang and Yin, turn white and black. In spring, it can pick the tender leaves of Fu candle, about 20 jin. Steamed in a steamer in a rice pot, steamed and dried to the end (it is useless to dry in the shade), about one jin of nanzhuye, add one jin of mulberry leaves, two Jin of redI, one jin of Cornus officinalis, one jin of ginkgo, three liang of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, two Jin of Atractylodes macrocephala; for the end, honey pill. White boiling water to send down one or two, take it every morning. (new edition of Materia Medica)

In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that the South candle is bitter in taste, flat in Qi and non-toxic in nature. However, the taste of it is also slightly astringent. If it is flat in Qi, it is cool. According to Shiji, astringency can be removed. If it's not astringent, it can't stop the discharge. If it's not cool, it can't turn white. For those who have hair, there is more than blood; for those who have color, there is more blood; for those who have blood heat, their hair is white and their face is withered; for those who have weak spleen, they are drowsy and prone to lying, but their strength is not long; for those who have kidney deficiency, their muscles and bones are weak and they can't move forward. If you enter the heart to cool the blood, the spleen to replenish qi, and the kidney to replenish the essence, the cloud is old and not empty. Most of the drugs that turn white smell bitter and cold, which is harmful to the spleen and stomach, but the South candle has a peaceful smell and can also benefit the spleen. "Nanzhutong Herba Eclipta, gall, Rehmannia glutinosa, mulberry, Lycium barbarum, Cornus officinalis, Polygonum multiflorum and Tribulus terrestris is the holy medicine of black hair. It has a peaceful smell and no toxicity. It's no use but turning white. "