Lotus root

Lotus root

(Ben Jing)

[synonym] guangpang (poetry by Lu Ji).

[source] it is the plump rhizome of Nymphaeaceae. For plant morphology, please refer to "lotus seed" section.

[collection] in autumn, winter and early spring.

[chemical composition] lotus root (rhizome) contains starch, protein, asparagin and vitamin C. It also contains pyrocatechol, d-gallcatechin, neochlorogenic acid, colorless cyanidin, colorless delphinidin and other polyphenols, with a total of about 0.3%, and peroxidase.

Sweet and cold.

① Bielu: "cold, nontoxic. "

② "Herbal Mengluo": "sweet, cold. "

③ In the classic of materia medica: "the living is sweet and cold; the ripe is sweet and warm. "

[meridian tropism] entering the heart, spleen and stomach meridians.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the spleen meridian. "

② "Into the heart, spleen, stomach three channels. "

③ "Yao Yao Fen Ji": enter the heart, liver, spleen and stomach. "

④ New materia medica: "entering the heart, liver and lung meridians. "

[function indications] Shengyong: Qingre, Liangxue, Sanyu. Treatment of fever, thirst, vomiting, bleeding, heat drenching. Familiar with: spleen, appetizer, blood, Shengji, antidiarrhea.

① "The lotus root juice is used to detoxify the venom of the snake and crab. "

② Bielu: "it can control heat and thirst, disperse blood and promote muscle growth. "

③ On medicinal properties: "lotus root juice can eliminate blood stasis. "

④ Cui Yuxi's the book of food: "the main trouble is hot and the nose is bleeding. "

⑤ Meng Shen: "raw food is mainly used for deficiency, thirst, boredom and inability to eat after cholera; steamed food can make up for the five internal organs, and is actually burnt. "

⑥ "Materia medica collection": "Xiaoshi Zhixie, Chufan, Jiejiu poison, pressure food and hot thirst after illness. "

⑦ "Rihuazi materia medica:" after bankruptcy, the blood is stuffy, so it's better to study and take it; smash the raw material and break the wound, stop the pain; cook the food, and appetizer. "

⑧ Daily use materia medica: "clear away heat and trouble, all hematemesis, hematemesis, blood stasis and septicemia should be eaten. "

⑨ "Diannan Materia Medica": "take more fluid for moistening the intestines and lungs. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: raw, juiced or boiled. External use: tamping.

[Yi Ji] zanning's "the feeling of things" says: "don't use iron. "

[prescription selection] 1. To cure seasonal dysphoria and thirst: raw lotus root, mash and wring, take a middle cup of juice, add raw honey, mix well, and divide into two servings regardless of time. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② Cure cholera vomit not only, concurrently thirsty: raw lotus root one or two (wash, cut), ginger one minute (wash, cut). On the two flavor, grind and wring juice, divided into three service, regardless of time. (Jiang Ou Yin in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of Shangjiao phlegm heat: lotus root juice, pear juice each half, kimono. (simple formula)

④ Treatment of red and white dysentery: lotus root 1 jin, mash juice, and honey, water stew into paste service. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

⑤ Treatment of hot urine: raw lotus root juice, Rehmannia Juice, grape juice, etc. Take half a cup each time and warm it with honey. (compendium)

⑥ Treatment of frozen foot cracking: steamed lotus root mashed and coated. (compendium)

⑦ Treat wheat awn and dust and things into the eye: a large lotus root, wash and mash, wrapped in silk on the eye, pumping juice, fall in the eye. (Puji Fang)

⑧ Treatment of eye heat and red pain: take a lotus root, even section, with mung beans into the empty space, several bowls of water, fried to half a bowl, lotus food. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[famous expert's discussion] ① Meng Shen said: "I don't eat raw and cold food after childbirth, but lotus root is different from raw and cold food, so it can break blood. "

② The classic of materia medica: "lotus root is sweet and cold in the living. It can cool blood and stop bleeding, remove heat and clear the stomach. Therefore, it can dissipate blood stasis, hematemesis, epistaxis, postpartum blood stasis, material golden sores, stop heat and thirst, cholera, boredom, and relieve alcohol. It can invigorate the spleen and appetizer, replenish blood and nourish the heart. Therefore, it can tonify the five internal organs, strengthen the lower energizer, eliminate food, stop diarrhea, generate muscle, and take it for a long time to make people happy and stop anger. "

③ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "lotus root is a medicine for cooling blood, dispersing blood, clearing heat and relieving summer heat. It is a disease of heart, spleen and blood. For example, Chen's prescription is used to treat heat, thirst and depression, Da's prescription is used to treat postpartum blood stasis, and Meng's prescription is used to treat cholera and water discharge. All of them belong to the patients with heat evil. Take the fragrance, cold, clean, sweet and light taste to cool them. For example, the disease of blood heat and blood stagnation is latent and silent. Second, if you eat too much raw food, you can't help having cold air and abdominal pain. Such as cooking cooked food, can raise viscera, and spleen and stomach. "

④ Chongqing Tang essays: "lotus root is good for those who are benevolent and productive. It can not only replenish blood, but also ventilate, so there is no greasy stagnation. "

⑤ According to the diet of suixiju: "lotus root is white and fat, pure and sweet is good. Raw food should be fresh and tender, boiled food should be strong and old, with casserole mulberry wood simmer very rotten, into refining white honey to collect dry food, the most heart and spleen. If Yin deficiency, hyperactivity of liver, internal heat, lack of blood and blood loss syndrome, but the day boil strong lotus root soup drink, for a long time self-healing, do not accept other drugs. "