Face

Face

(compendium)

[alias] Yinyu (flora of Guangzhou).

[source] it is the fruit of the face of a plant in the family lacqueraceae.

Human face

Evergreen large trees, up to 20 meters high. Branchlets angulate, covered with grayish white hairs. Leaflets 11-17, alternate, oblong or oblong elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, base oblique and round, apex long pointed, entire, subcleathery, glabrous on both sides and reticulate veins obvious, or with tufts of hairs in dorsal vein axils. Panicles terminal or axillary, pilose; flowers small, 5-6 mm long, campanulate, bluish white; calyx 5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, pilose; petals 5-lanceolate, apex cambered; disk cup-shaped; stamens 10, inserted at the base of disk; ovary superior, 5-locular. Drupe fleshy, oblate, ca. 2 cm in diam., yellow. The flowering period is spring and summer.

Born in plains, hills, villages, rivers, pools and other places. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

The root bark of this plant (human face root bark) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[nature and taste] sweet and sour, flat.

① Guangzhi: "it is sweet in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic. "

② "Gangmu": sweet and sour. "

③ "Ben Cao Qiu yuan": "acid, cold, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: invigorate the stomach and sober up. Cure wind, poison, sore and itch. Nuclear treatment of children with epilepsy.

① Guangzhi: "sober up and detoxify. The treatment of wind is toxic to people, and the pimples all over the body become sores, or pain or itching. "

② "Seeking the source of materia medica:" pregnant women with abdominal pain should eat. "

③ Lingnan medicine collection records: "to get rid of throat pain, to eat rotten meat. "

④ "Lu Chuan's Materia Medica": "invigorating the stomach. Treat loss of appetite. "

Usage: take it orally, or use it as raw meal. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] 1. To treat infantile convulsion and epilepsia, such as eyesight, tetany, and catarrh. (compilation of food materia medica)

② Cure back carbuncle: person face a few grain, go nuclear, with crucian carp a, mash apply it. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)