indigo naturalis

indigo naturalis

(records of medicinal properties)

[synonyms] indigo flower (simple formula), clam powder (compendium), qingganghua (surgical authentic), Lanlu, Dianhua (hand plate hair), indigo foam flower (empirical identification of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the dry pigment in the leaves of Acanthaceae, Leguminosae, Cruciferae and Polygonum. The plant morphology is detailed in "Mulan", "Banlangen" and "Lanshi".

[method] harvest the stems and leaves in summer and autumn, put them in a vat, and soak them in water for 2-3 days and nights. When the leaves rot and the branches are removed, remove the branches, add 1 jin of lime to every 10 jin of leaves, and fully stir. When the liquid is purple, the liquid foam is dried and dried, which is the quality of Indigo Naturals. When the foam is reduced, it can precipitate for 2~3 hours, remove the clarified liquid above, remove the sediment and remove the slag, then stir, and then produce foam. The foam is dried and dried. It is still indigo natura, but its quality is inferior.

[herbal medicine] this product is a very fine powder, gray blue or dark blue, light in weight, easy to fly, and can be used to stick paper by hand. It has the smell of grass and slightly sour taste. It is better to be light, fine powder, able to float on the water surface and produce a purple red flame when burning. If the quality is heavy and solid, it is massive, with white dots, and there is granular sinking in the water, the quality is secondary.

Mainly produced in Fujian, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Jiangxi, Henan, Sichuan and other places. Fujian produced the best quality, known as jianqingdai.

[pharmacological action] the alcohol extract of indigo naturalis (indigo naturalis) (0.5 g / ml) has inhibitory effect on Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus pneumoniae, Shigella dysentery, Vibrio cholerae, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus albicans in vitro. However, it has also been reported that it has no inhibitory effect on Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae, Staphylococcus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which may be due to different extraction methods.

[processing] indigo naturalis: remove impurities and pass through. Feiqingdai: sift out impurities, put them in a bowl, add appropriate amount of water, mix and grind them fine, then pour in water, stir gently to make the fine powder suspended, pour them into another container, after sedimentation, pour out the water, then pour the precipitated powder into a sieve covered with white paper, dry and grind them fine.

[flavor] salty, cold.

① "On medicinal properties": "it tastes sweet and flat. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "it tastes salty, cold and nontoxic. "

③ "Xin Xian" in Yilin zuanyao. "

④ Ben Cao Zai Xin: "it tastes bitter, has a cold nature, and is non-toxic. "

[channel tropism] entering liver, lung and stomach channels.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the liver and spleen meridians. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "it's special for the liver. "

③ "Into the liver, and into the lung, stomach. "

[function indications] heat clearing, blood cooling and detoxification. It is used to treat febrile diseases, rash, hematemesis, hemoptysis, infantile convulsion, sore swelling, erysipelas, snakebite.

① "On medicinal properties": "relieve infantile malnutrition, emaciate, kill insects. "

② "Materia medica: detoxification. Xiao'er Dan re, take it with water. "

③ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "it mainly resolves all kinds of drugs and poisons, heat in children, convulsion and fever, headache and cold and heat in the morning, and it can be taken by boiling water. Also apply heat sores, evil swelling, golden sores, lower blood, snake dogs and other poisons. "

④ "Herbal Mengluo" says: "Xiegan, zhibingzhu, xiaoshanggetanhuo, qushibing headache, lianshanghanyiban, shuitiaozhi. "

⑤ "Gangmu": "to heat trouble, hematemesis, hemoptysis, spot sores, Yin sores, kill evil insects. "

⑥ "Ben Cao Shu": "it can treat apoplexy, head wind, hypochondriac pain, tremor, dizziness, cough, cough for a long time, vomiting, tongue bleeding, cough blood, decadent hernia. "

⑦ "This Jing meets the original": "it is used to treat toxic hair spot and postpartum dysentery. "

⑧ Yaoyaofenji: "it can remove heat and toxin, and cool blood. "

⑨ "Lingnan caiyao Lu": it can be applied to sores and gills. It is also used to treat eye heat, membranous and hematemesis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 5-8 minutes, or into pills, powder. External use: dry sprinkling or mixed application.

[taboo] Materia Medica from the new: "don't use it when it's cold. "

[selection] 1. Treatment of typhoid erythema: Indigo naturalis Erqian. Water research clothing. (Lei Zheng huoren Shu)

② If you don't treat it urgently, the fetus will die soon: genuine indigo, fresh ground, gypsum, Cimicifuga, Radix Scutellariae, jiaozhizi and onion. Take it in water. (Qingdai gypsum Decoction in redupling treatise on common febrile diseases)

③ Cure hematemesis more than: Indigo two money, new water transfer. (duanxiaofang Qingjin powder)

④ Treatment of hemoptysis: Indigo naturalis a money, almonds 40 (peeled, pointed, yellow wax fried with yellow Ming, take out the research fine). The first two pieces were ground together, but a little wax was used to melt them and knead them to make a big cake. Take one dried persimmon for each serving, break it in the middle, make a cake with medicine, wrap it in wet paper, simmer it slowly, take it out, and chew it with glutinous rice porridge. (the holy bread of the Chinese Tibetan Scripture)

⑤ Treatment of cough and expectoration, facial and nasal redness: Indigo naturalis (water fly very thin, dry and then research with) four money, clam powder three money. Two flavor honey for the pill, such as big fingers. Linwo zengsan pills. (Qingdai clam powder pill in medical records)

⑥ Treatment of lung cough with hot phlegm: Indigo naturalis, Haishi, gualouren, Chuanbeimu. (qingdaihaishi pill in Zheng Yin Mai Zhi)

⑦ Treatment of infantile convulsion and epilepsy: Indigo naturalis, the size of the amount, water research service. (Sheng Bian)

⑧ Treatment of postpartum mania: Siwu Decoction plus indigo naturalis. Take it in water. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑨ Treatment of epigastric pain, long illness into depression, depression into heat: Indigo naturalis, ginger juice into the soup tune service. (true story of Medicine)

⑩ Treatment of mouth and tongue sores: Indigo one money, asarum one point, Phellodendron one point (file), Digupi one point, mithushen one point. Add a piece of medicine and pound it into powder. Each take a little, paste on the sore. Spit when you have saliva. (Sheng Hui Fang)

(11) cure all kinds of heat and pus: indigo or Indigo, cold water or stone (calcined, Su Wei DU). On the fine powder, with sesame oil to rub. (PU Ji Fang Qing Jin San)

(12) treatment of tianpao sores: appropriate amount of indigo naturalis, fresh towel gourd leaf mash juice transfer applied to the affected area. Mix with a little vegetable oil. (selected prescriptions)

Treatment of infantile wetness tinea immersion sore: two liang of white glue (Research), half liang of clam powder, two and a half yuan of indigo naturalis. Grind evenly for fine powder, dry mixed sore. (Tian Shi Bao Ying Ji Qing Jin San)

(14) the treatment of scrofula: Indigo flower, purslane with the pound, daily coating. (simple formula)

Treatment of ear chancre juice: Indigo naturalis, Phellodendron amurense powder. Dry on. (Tan Weng experimental formula)

(16) treatment of rotten string eye: Indigo naturalis, Coptis chinensis. The soup is washed every day. (Mingmu empirical formula)

Treatment of various poisonous insect injuries: Indigo naturalis, realgar, etc. At the end of the research, new water service two money. (ancient and modern prescriptions)

[clinical application] treatment of epistaxis

Expand the anterior nostril with nasal forceps, find out the bleeding site, and then use a sterile cotton ball dipped in Indigo naturalis powder into the nasal cavity to compress the bleeding point. When applying the medicine, the patient should be asked to stop breathing to prevent indigo naturalis inhalation causing cough. 20 cases were treated, 13 cases were treated once, 4 cases were treated twice, 2 cases were treated three times (plus acupuncture), epistaxis stopped; 1 case was invalid.

[famous scholar's discussion] 1. In the classic of materia medica: "Indigo naturalis can detoxify and remove heat, consolidate its strong points. The ancient prescriptions are mostly used for those with various blood syndromes, making the disease not due to excess heat of blood, but due to yin deficiency and internal heat, Yang has no attachment, and the fire Qi is due to deficiency and inflammation, resulting in spitting, etc. If the blood is cold, it will coagulate. If the blood is coagulated, it will be combined with cold and heat. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "Indigo naturalis can relieve liver and gallbladder, disperse stagnant fire, treat toxic hair spot and postpartum dysentery. It can be used in Qianjin Lanqing pill to relieve cold, heat and headache in Tianxing and take it with water. It's similar to blue, but it's better than blue. It can also cure the disease of choking diaphragm and use its power to transform insects. And drown white, borneol, blow mouth chancre most effective. "

③ "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "Indigo naturalis has the characteristics of big catharsis, liver meridian excess fire and scattered liver meridian fire depression. Therefore, children with wind heat, convulsion, chancre, Dan heat, carbuncle, snake and dog, golden sore bleeding, choking diaphragm, poisonous food, headache, pestilence heat, freckle, hematemesis, hemoptysis, dysentery and other diseases should be treated with pills. It can be used as a mixture of dry powder, water, soup or cake. It can be used to disperse wind, depression and dryness. "

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