Cow's milk

Cow's milk

(records of Jiangsu medicinal materials)

[synonyms] yangchunzi (a textual research on the names and facts of plants), Tianzao and maizizi (Chinese higher plant Atlas), banchunzi, yanmazi, mimaozi, yangnaizi, mangzhuzi and helaizi (Hunan medicinal records).

[source] it is the root, leaf and fruit of Milkvetch.

[plant morphology] milkseed

Deciduous shrub, up to 4 m high. Branches acupunctured, branchlets yellowish brown, or partly densely covered with silvery white scales. Leaves alternate, papery, elliptic to obovate lanceolate, 3-9 cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, apex obtuse to apical, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin usually curled, with silvery white scales or stellate hairs when young, falling off when old, silvery white or mixed brown scales below; petiole 5-7 mm long. Flowers axillary, yellowish white, fragrant, with scales outside, about 1.2 cm long The perianth tube is funnel-shaped, with 4-lobed upper part, and the tube is longer than the lobes. The stamens are 4. The style is sparsely white stellate pilose, and the fruit is nearly spherical to ovoid, 6-8 mm long. There are silver white or brown scales at the beginning, red at maturity, and flowering in may to June. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows in dry hillside, sand land and shrub. It is distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and its north.

[flavor] sour, bitter and cool.

"Sour, bitter and astringent" in Hunan medical records.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, stopping bleeding. Treatment of cough, diarrhea, dysentery, gonorrhea, collapse belt.

① "The treatment of throat heat" in the textual research of plant names and facts. "

② "Jiangsu herbal medicine records": "convergence, hemostasis, antidiarrhea. "

③ "Hunan medicine annals": "invigorating spleen, dispersing cold and relieving exterior, eliminating wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation and diuresis. "

④ "Guizhou medicine plant catalog": root: cure measles. Ye: it is used to treat sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

[formula selection] 1. Treatment of watery diarrhea: one cow's milk costs five yuan. Take it in water. Two cow milk fruit one money. Mash and take brown sugar with boiling water.

② Cure dysentery: a cow milk root one money, purslane one money. Take it in water. Two cow milk leaf one money, garlic head one small. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of dry cough: milk one or two, pinellia one money, sea cucumber five money. Fried in water is good for honey.

④ Treatment of gonorrhea: milk root three to five money. Take it in water.

⑤ Treatment collapse belt: milk root five money to one or two. Fried in water or boiled eggs.

⑥ Treatment of mastitis: milk root two liang, silver five money, dandelion one or two. Take it in water. (selected prescriptions from Hunan Pharmacopoeia)