Abelmoschus root

Abelmoschus root

(notes on materia medica)

[source] it is the root of Malvaceae plant, and the plant morphology is detailed in the section of "sunflower".

[chemical composition] the root contains a lot of mucilage; the mucilage of one-year rooting contains 7.78% pentose, 6.86% pentosan, 10.59% methylpentosan and 20.04% uronic acid.

About 30% mucilage was found in the roots of the same plant. The root of the same family plant Abelmoschus manihot contains about 16% clay, most of which are composed of Arabian, galactan and rhamnosan.

[pharmacological action] root can be used as a lubricant for mucosal inflammation, which can protect and relieve irritation.

[nature and taste] 1. Herbal notes: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

② "Materia medica:" sweet smell, slightly cold and slippery, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and cooling blood, diuresis and purulent discharge. Hematemesis, hematemesis, hematuria, leucorrhea.

① "Materia medica collection": "root and stem, and host guest heat, diuretic, scattered pus blood evil juice. "

② "Materia medica Yan Yi": "take the red single leaf, treat the lower, discharge pus and blood evil things. "

③ "Classification of herbal medicine nature": "treatment of red collapse, hematemesis, leucorrhea. "

④ "Materia medica push Chen": "treat erysipelas, fire sores, burns, edema. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or into pills, powder. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of urination: a pinch of sunflower root. Wash, file, fry for five or seven days. (Health treasure, sunflower powder)

② Treatment of HAEMORRHEA and hematemesis: two pieces of chessboard flowers. Simmer sweet wine to eat.

③ Treatment of leucorrhea increase: chessboard flower root one or two. Stewed pork or boiled water.

④ Cure defecation impassable: chessboard flower root, winter amaranth each one or two. Simmer water clothes. (2) Guizhou herbal medicine

⑤ Treatment of intestinal carbuncle: marshmallow root one money, rhubarb one money. Take it in water. (marshmallow soup in experience recipe)

⑥ In the treatment of internal carbuncle, there is septicemia, bad smell, cold pain in navel and abdomen. Use this to expel pus and blood: Red marshmallow root, Angelica dahurica each one or two, white withered milk and white peony each five money. For the end, yellow wax melting, and pill Wuzi big. Drink 20 pills for each hollow rice, and take Shixuan powder to make up for the pus and blood. (Huaizhong pill in Tan Xian Jie Xiao Fang)

⑦ Don't be a ninja for sore: remove the black skin of sunflower root and pound it. If it's thick, add a little well water. If it's not thick, don't use water. Stick it with paper flower paste. (Ji Sheng Ba Cui)