Conch

Conch

(collection of compendium)

[synonyms] Rehmannia glutinosa (bielu), baiheche (Wang Anqing's collection of herbs), milkvetch (textual research on the names and facts of plants), four leaf ginseng (Southern Jiangsu seed plants), white Python meat, mountain carrot (northeast medicine plant records), Rushan (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine), milkvetch and Codonopsis pilosula (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine records), tongrushao and granmatou (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Nanjing).

[source] it is the root of milk of Platycodon grandiflorum.

[plant morphology] goat's milk (another record), also known as milk tree (a textual research on the name of plant).

Perennial creeping herbs. The roots are stout, obovate and spindle shaped. Stems climbing slender, glabrous, purplish, up to 1 m long. Leaves alternate on stem, small; on branches usually 2-4 pieces clustered, or opposite or nearly whorled, oblong lanceolate, lanceolate to elliptic, 3-10 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, apex pointed, base cuneate, entire, or slightly sparsely microwavy teeth, glabrous on both sides, grayish white below; short stalks. Flowers solitary or paired at the top of branches; calyx tube 5-lobed; lobes ovate lanceolate; corolla milky white outside, dark purple inside, bell shaped, light 5-lobed, apex retrovolved, reticulate veined; stamens 5, filaments several as long as anthers; ovary half inferior, style short, stigma 3-lobed. Capsule conic, with persistent calyx. The flowering period is from August to October.

It grows on the hillside, both sides of linlian River Valley and other wet places. Distributed in Northeast and Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] from August to September, the roots were dug, washed and dried.

[medicinal materials] the dry roots are slightly spindle or conical in shape, with different sizes. They are generally 6-12 cm long and 1-3 cm in diameter, sometimes with branches. The upper part is thick, with numerous transverse wrinkles, and the lower part is slightly fine; there are longitudinal wrinkles and fine root marks. The appearance is grayish brown to earthy yellow, rough; the ones without embolus are grayish white or yellowish white. It is loose and light, easy to break, with white section and many cracks. It tastes bitter and slightly spicy.

Produced in Heilongjiang, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places.

[flavor] Gan Xin, Ping.

① Bielu: "it tastes sweet, warm and nontoxic. "

② Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "it is pungent in taste and cool in nature. "

③ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "sweet taste, flat nature, non-toxic. "

[function indications] detumescence, detoxification, purulent discharge, expectorant, lactation. Treatment of lung carbuncle, breast carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, swelling, fever, throat moth, milk less, leucorrhea.

① Bielu: "it can control dizziness and pain, replenish qi and build muscles. "

② Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs: "cure bayberry sores. "

③ "Gangmu Shiyi": "for the treatment of swollen and toxic scrofula, take juice and wine, and apply residue on the affected area. "

④ A textual research on the names and facts of plants: "hair milk, invigorating yang way.". "

⑤ Guangzhou army "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "nourishing strong, expectorant Runfei, row pus detoxification. Treatment of lung abscess, mastitis, carbuncle sores, swelling poison, snake bite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1.5 Liang (fresh 1.5-4 Liang). External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. For lung carbuncle, one goat's milk and one Honeysuckle's leaf are 125 yuan and 125 yuan respectively. Take it in water. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine) two goat milk four Liang, white hair rattan tip leaf (bag) four Liang. Take it in water. (records of medicinal plants in Hangzhou)

② Treatment of breast moth, intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle: snail, dandelion each five money. Take it by frying. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

③ Hair milk: braised food with conch and pig forelegs. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of yin deficiency headache, woman leucorrhea: goat milk one two five money, with pig lean meat four two stewed soup, to Decoction service. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of snakebite: fresh goat milk root four Liang, chopped, fried in water, twice a day; another Gentianaceae root with water mashed external application. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Nanjing)