Capsaicin

Capsaicin

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] Shi Jiao (Diannan materia medica), Shi Jiao (textual research on plant names and facts), Shi Jiao (investigation report on medicinal plants in Kunming), Qian Li Ma, Yang Bu Chi, Jiu Niu Er Hu Cao, Yang Dan Cao, Tong Jiao Yi Zhi Hao, tie broom (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Lithospermum lappa.

[plant morphology] capsaicin, also known as Capsicum tenuifolium.

Perennial herbs. The root is cylindrical, slightly twisted, yellowish white, with longitudinal lines and black round protuberances. Stem erect, purplish red. Leaves alternate, 2 or 3 turns, 3 pinnate compound leaves, occasionally 5; total petiole 2-16 mm long; leaflets obovate to oblong, 3-5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, apex rounded or slightly concave, base broadly cuneate, entire, papery, glandular punctate, petiole short. Cyme, small flowers, white yellow; calyx 4-lobed, suborbicular, connate below the middle; petals 4-ovoid, about 2 mm long, membranous, with glandular spots; stamens 6-8, alternate in length, filaments separated, attached to the perianth of the fleshy annular disk; ovary sessile, style short, single 1, base separated into 4, stigma capitate. The fruit is composed of four capsule like petals. The fruit is sessile or shortly stipitate at maturity. The flowering period is April.

It grows on the edge of mountains and forests. It is distributed in Yunnan and southwest Sichuan.

[collection] harvest in summer, remove sediment and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] "Diannan Materia Medica" is warm in nature, bitter and spicy in taste, and has little poison. "

[functions and indications] 1. Yunnan materia medica; 2. Go through meridians and collaterals, stop chest and diaphragmatic pain, cold and cold attack the heart, stomach pain, abdominal distension, and spread sores and poisons. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "dispel wind and dry dampness, regulate qi, relieve pain and diminish inflammation. Treatment of cold, pneumonia, bronchitis, tonsillitis, mumps, dysentery, thromboangiitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Jiantang, 3-6 yuan; Yanmo, 1-1.5 yuan.

[prescription selection] to treat cold stomach pain: regardless of the number of capsicum, with roots and leaves as the end, take one yuan and five Fen each time, take hot wine. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)