Pu Shen

Pu Shen

(compendium)

[synonym] puhuanggen (milk producing prescription), Pushan (daily herb), Pueraria (wild recipe), and pubaocao (common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai).

[source] it is the rhizome of Typha longibracteata or other plants of the same genus. See "cattail" for plant morphology.

[collection] spring excavation.

[chemical constituents] the rhizome of Typha angustifolia contains 60-65% carbohydrates. The root of Typha latifolia contains 81% of carbohydrates.

Sweet and cool.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and flat. "

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ Classified herbal medicine nature: "bitter, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting diuresis and detumescence. It is used to treat labor fever, fetal movement, blood loss, thirst, aphtha, dysentery, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, edema and scrofula of pregnant women.

① Ben Jing: "it governs the five internal organs, evil in the heart, rotten and smelly in the mouth, firm teeth, bright eyes and bright ears. "

② "Daily use Materia Medica": "to heat dry, benefit urine. "

③ Wang Ying's food materia medica: "eating raw can stop thirst. "

④ Yao Kecheng's "food Materia Medica": "stop coughing, lung gasping, do not sleep. "

⑤ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Qingre, Yangxue, Xiaoyong, liyanhou, tonger. "

⑥ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "treat drenching, dampness and swelling. "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "eliminate edema, water accumulation, and stop toothache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or wring juice.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of heat due to maternal labor, blood loss due to fetal movement, and restlessness of hands and feet: take one or two liters of Puhuang root and twisted juice. (milk producing prescription)

② Treatment of dysentery: Pu Gen (file) two liang, corn (Amoy) two. On two flavor, with water three, decoct one and a half, to dross, points temperature two service, hollow, day afternoon service. (PU Gen Tang, Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of spermatorrhea, leucorrhea: Puhuang root, capsule by each one or two, with Ma root, Miren root each five money, white Ying, three white grass each four money. Decoction, menstrual period avoid taking. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

④ Treatment of damp heat leucorrhea: Pu Shen stewed chicken clothes. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of scrofula: pubaocao, collected from roots, washed away mud, cut inch section, fried soup in casserole instead of tea. Both men and women are better. But after the woman took this medicine, she did not get pregnant. She had to take four or five liang of Beijing zhenyimu pills. (collection of compendium)

⑥ Treatment of scrofula, goitre, urethritis: pubao grass root five money. Take it by frying. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)