Burdock stem and leaf

Burdock stem and leaf

(on medicinal properties)

Another name is doctor Ye.

[source] the leaves of Arctium lappa, a Compositae plant, are described in the section "Arctium lappa".

[ingredients and pharmacology] the leaves contain the most antibacterial substances, mainly against Staphylococcus aureus, with the minimum inhibitory concentration of 400 μ g / ml. the pulp juice of the leaves also has certain effects. The content of antibacterial components is the highest in the flowering period, but the plant also contains oxidase, which can destroy the antibacterial components. Therefore, ethanol vapor should be used immediately after harvest to destroy the oxidase, but attention should be paid not to make ethanol coagulate on the plant, otherwise the antibacterial components will be dissolved and lost.

[nature and taste] on medicinal properties: "it tastes sweet and nontoxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat head wind pain, boredom, golden sores and breast carbuncle. The skin is itchy.

① "On medicinal properties": "burdock alone, the main face is boring, limbs are not healthy, through the twelve meridians, treatment of five viscera evil Qi, can often be used as food, it is light. "And:" stem and leaf juice, summer bath, peeling between the habit like insects. If you wash it, be careful when there is less wind. "

② "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "Jinchuang, take the leaf and stick it. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: cooking. External use: decocting and washing, boiling cream or sticking sore with leaves.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of wind and brain pain, it is necessary to pound the stems and leaves of Arctium lappa, take two liters of thick juice, one liter of ashless wine, one spoonful of salty flower, and make them thick into paste by fire frying, so as to rub the pain and stop Fengdu powder. It's also a headache. When you rub, you must try your best to make the heat quick. If there is no seedling in winter, it is OK to replace it with roots. (box of Chinese)

② Treatment of acute mastitis: Burdock cotyledon (dry three money, fresh one or two), water fried when tea. (selected works of the whole exhibition: surgery)