Garlic

Garlic

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] zesuan (a collection of Materia Medica), XiaoSuan (a herbal remedy for famine relief), kusuangguo, yecongguo (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), yecongguo (Shanghai plant list).

[source] it is the bulb of Liliaceae.

[plant morphology] Lycoris radiata

Perennial herbs. Bulb broad ovate, white, only as big as jujube, outer membrane. Leaf root, slender, tubular, soft and slightly ribbed, green, about 30 cm long. The stem is 30-60 cm long, with many purple black bulbils at the top of the stem; the umbel is terminal; the bracts are 2, ovate, membranous; the flowers are small, perianth 6, ovate lanceolate, apex obtuse, white, or with purple dorsal line; stamens 6, ovate, anthers oblong; ovary superior, 3-locular, style filiform. Capsule, loculicidal. The seeds are black. It blooms in summer.

Born in the wild. It is distributed all over the country.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Ben Cao Shi Yi: "Xin, Wen. "

② "Saving wasteland Materia Medica": "it has pungent taste, depressed nature and little poison. "

Functions and indications: warming the middle of the body to remove accumulation, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It can be used to treat mass, blood stasis, food stagnation, fullness, carbuncle swelling and falling injury.

① "Materia medica collection": "warm tonic, lower Qi, slide water. "

② According to the book of Materia Medica, it can be used to treat lump and woman's blood stasis. "

③ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "it can strengthen the stomach, help digestion, increase appetite, and treat diaphragmatic fullness by folk medicine. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, or grinding juice.