Jujube

Jujube

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Shidou and Yandou (Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines), Zizyphus jujuba and Shimi (Shaanxi's Chinese herbal medicines), Yanzhu and agave (Zhejiang's commonly used folk herbal medicines).

[source] it is the whole plant of Cymbidium.

[plant morphology] Sophora alopecuroides

Perennial evergreen creeping herbs. Aerial root bearlike, white. Rhizome slender, transverse, with node, node with pseudobulb, green, small, oval, angulate. 1 leaf per pseudobulb, narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 1.5-3 cm long, apex emarginate, midvein concave, entire. The umbel is extracted from the base of the pseudobulb, with 4-6 flowers, and the flowers are pale yellow. Capsule ovate. The flowering period is from June to August.

It is also attached to tree trunks. Distributed in Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn, remove soil and impurities, and dry in the shade.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, cool.

① "Gan Xin, Han" in Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, light, cool. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, relieving swelling and pain, cooling blood and activating blood circulation. Treatment of high fever, convulsion, rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of limbs, joint swelling, carbuncle, sore throat, traumatic injury.

① "Nourishing Yin, reducing fire, clearing heat and removing dampness" in Jinhua's selected prescriptions of common Chinese herbal medicines. Treatment of high fever, convulsion, diphtheria, stomatitis, toothache, mastitis, back carbuncle, rheumatic arthralgia. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, relaxing tendons, tonifying Yin and helping Yang. It is used to treat hemiplegia, quadriplegia, rheumatism numbness, knife injury, contusion injury, soup and fire scald, labor injury, high fever, infantile convulsion and spermatorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or soaking in wine. External use: grind and apply.

[prescription selection] ① for infantile convulsion and catarrh: one or two fresh shidoulan, fried in water.

② Treatment of wind heat sore throat, real fire headache: fresh shidoulan one to two. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of joint swelling and pain: fresh shidoulan 2 to 42 Liang, honeysuckle vine 2 or 2, pig feet 1, rice wine 4 liang. Stewed in water.

④ Treatment of breast carbuncle: fresh stone Doulan mash applied to the affected area, another with fresh whole grass two liang, Shaojiu one to two Liang. Stew in separate soup and take it twice. (1) Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs is listed below.)

5. Cure injuries: Stone jujube 1 to 22, soak in a jin of liquor, each morning and evening, each take one to two wine bottles, or stone jujube, stone cowpea each five, baijiu. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of knife injury: appropriate amount of stone jujube, powdered, boiled water transfer applied to the wound. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Shi Zao