Dill seed

Dill seed

(Haiyao materia medica)

[synonym] Shi Meizhong (Hou Ningji's "medicine spectrum"), dill pepper (materia medica Mengjiao), fennel (compendium), shriveled fennel (materia medica Zhengyi), local fennel (records of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the fruit of dill.

[plant morphology] Dill (Haiyao materia medica), also known as cimoule (Kaibao materia medica).

Herbs annual or biennial. Stem erect, smooth, 60-90 cm high. The leaves are alternate, with long stalks. The base is expanded in sheath shape and embraces the stem. The leaves are pinnately divided 3-4 times, and the lobes are linear. Finally, the lobes grow to 18 mm. Compound umbel, diameter up to 15 cm, pedicel slightly unequal, without involucre and small involucre; flowers small, petals 5, yellow, curved inward, caducous; stamens 5, longer than petals, anthers 2-locular: pistil 1, ovary inferior, style 2. The fruit is slightly flat, broadly elliptic, 3-4 mm long and 2-3 mm wide. It is brownish yellow outside and has a membranous costal line. The costal lines on both sides extend into wings. There are 4 oil chambers between the costal lines and 2 oil chambers on the ventral commissure. It blooms in summer. The fruit period is autumn.

It is cultivated or wild all over the country.

The seedling leaves of this plant (dill seedling) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] after the fruit is mature, the branches are harvested, dried in the sun, the fruit is knocked down, the impurities are removed, and the sun is dried to a certain degree.

[herbal medicine] most of the dried fruits are split, flat and wide oval, 3-4 mm in length, 2-3 mm in width and 1 mm in thickness. The outer surface is brown, the back surface has three inconspicuous costal lines, both sides of the costal lines extend as wings, a few undivided double suspensory fruit base has residual fruit stalk. The air is slightly fragrant.

Produced in Jiangsu, Anhui and other places.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains carapace ketone, limonene, dill oleanol, bergamot lactone, umbelliferide, farnesol ether, namely 7-hydroxycoumarin, farnesol ether, wax, γ - sitosterol, etc.

[pharmacological action] for the action of carapace ketone, please refer to "zangfennel". The non terpenoid oil in seeds has antifungal effect.

[processing] remove the mud chips and clean the stems and impurities.

① Pinhuijingyao: "wash with water, stir fry with water.". "

② "From the new materia medica:" fried yellow wine is good. "

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① "Materia medica collection": "pungent, fragrant. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "it is pungent, warm and non-toxic. "

[Guijing] into the spleen and kidney.

① "Drug Huayi": entering the liver, kidney and bladder. "

② "Into the foot Jueyin liver meridian, hand Taiyin lung meridian. "

③ "Into the liver, stomach, kidney, bladder, small intestine. "

④ "Into the spleen, stomach, kidney three channels. "

Functions and indications: warming spleen and kidney, appetizing, dispersing cold, activating qi, detoxifying fish and meat. It is used for the treatment of fever, nausea and vomiting, abdominal cold pain, cold hernia, fullness and less food.

① "The collection of Materia Medica" says: "children's Qi distension, cholera vomiting, cold abdomen, two rib fullness. "

② Haiyao materia medica: "it can control the diaphragm Qi, eliminate food, warm the stomach, nourish the taste, and eat more without damage. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "invigorating spleen, opening stomach qi, warming intestines, killing fish poison, replenishing water, strengthening muscles and bones, treating kidney qi. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "Runshen Bushen, bumingmen, wendantian, Kaiwei Tiaozhong, Shangda danzhong, shuganmu, Yinyu, Shujin, Xiachu beriberi, Zhihan hernia. "

⑤ According to suixiju diet, it can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen, disperse cold and relieve pain, kill insects and eliminate food, regulate qi and stop vomiting, calm waist and teeth pain, and relieve fish and meat poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.8-1.5 money; or into pills, powder.

[avoid] it is not suitable for those with insufficient Qi and Yin and fire.

"Haiyao Materia Medica": "it is not allowed to combine with ferula and seize its taste. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat children's bloating, cholera vomiting, abdominal cold food and hypochondriac pain: dill, as the end, paste pills as big as mung bean. Three years old, 30 pills, green skin soup. (Puji recipe dill pill)

② Cure hernia slants to fall, female disease: dill 12 money. Stir fry brown, for fine powder. No ash and good wine. (the wonderful recipe for life)

③ Treatment of back pain: dill, as the end, wine service two money dagger. (Yonglei qianfang)

[discussion of famous experts] 1. In Ben Cao Qiu Zhen, Xiao Hui works as well as Da Peng in Ningxia. It goes into the liver and drys the kidney and warms the stomach, but its sexual strength is slightly slow, not like the sexual heat of Da Hui. It is still used according to the urgency of the syndrome. Stir fry with wine and salt water, each with the disease. "

② "Ben Cao Zheng Yi" says: "dill is a kind of medicine for treating cholera, vomiting, cold stomach, and fullness of the two flanks." RI Hua "regulates strengthening the spleen, appetizing the stomach, killing fish and meat poisons, and treating kidney qi. It is the best way to treat hernia. However, it is spicy and dry. It can consume Qi and hurt the body fluid. It can only be used for menstruation, and can not be used alone. "