Rhamnus

Rhamnus

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] niuli (Wupu materia medica), Shuzi, barnyardgrass (bielu), Zhaoli, zaoli (Tang materia medica), Shanli (Liu Yuxi's chuanxinfang), wuchaozi (materia medica tujing), wufuzha, niujinzi (salvation materia medica), Chuli, wuchazi, niuzaozi (compendium), Lvzi (Fengyuan), wugangzi, niunianzi, heshangzi (yilinzuoyao) Yang Shizi (a textual research on the names of plants) and smelly plum (Chinese tree taxonomy).

[source] it is the fruit of rhamniaceae.

[plant morphology] Rhamnus Rhamnus, also known as Wucha tree (tangbencao), is composed of frozen green wood, old stork eye, red skin green tree and big green tree.

Deciduous small trees or large open shrubs, up to 10 meters high. The bark is grayish brown, the branchlets are brown and slightly glossy, and there are large buds at the top. Leaves opposite long branches or clustered on short branches; long stalked; oblong ovate or broadly oblanceolate, 4-11 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, margin crenulate, upper bright green, lower pale green, glabrous or pubescent, lateral veins usually 4-5 pairs. Flowers 2-5 bundles in leaf axils, yellow green, dioecious, 4-5 mm in diameter; calyx 4-lobed, sepals narrowly ovate, acute; corolla funnel-shaped bell shaped, 4-lobed; male flowers, stamens 4, with sterile pistils; female flowers, ovary spherical, 2-3-locular, style 2-3-lobed, with undeveloped stamens. Drupe subglobose, 5-7 mm in diameter, purple black at maturity. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows in the mixed forest of mountains. Distributed in Northeast, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

The root and bark of this plant are also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] from August to September, the fruits were harvested when they were ripe, the fruit stalks were removed, and then dried by low fire.

[medicinal material] the dried fruit is nearly spherical with dark purple appearance. Glossy and wrinkled. The pulp is loose, the inner layer is hard, usually with 2 nuclei; the nucleus is ovoid, with narrow groove on the back.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains emodin, chrysophanol, anthraquinone and kaempferol. There are many flavonoid glycosidases in seeds. The bark contains emodin, aloe emodin, chrysophanol and other anthraquinones.

It is bitter, sweet and cool.

① Tang materia medica: "it tastes bitter and has little poison. "

② "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "taste sweet and bitter. "

③ "Compendium": "bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "into the liver and kidney. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, eliminating accumulation and killing insects. Treatment of edema, abdominal distension, hernia, scrofula, scabies, toothache.

① "Ben Jing": "it is mainly about cold and heat, and sores. "

② Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "the main hot.". "

③ "Tang materia medica:" blood and broken meat, in addition to hernia and cold air accumulation, nine steamed wine stains, take three, two days. "

④ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "the main distension full, valley distension, and noodles for the son, hollow food, when less diarrhea. "

⑤ Rihuazi materia medica: "treat edema. "

⑥ "Pinhuijingyao": "insecticidal, disinfection. "

⑦ "Gangmu": "there are insects for treating acne, black pit and scabies. "

⑧ Yilin zuanyao: "take juice to boil ointment, nourishing Yin, nourishing kidney and promoting blood circulation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-4 yuan; grind powder or boil cream. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat acne and inverted dimple and black depression: the juice of beef and plum pestle is sealed in the stone tool, and each soap is big, and the decoction of apricot gum is melted. (niuli ointment, named Bisheng ointment, in the formula of pediatric medicine syndrome)

② To treat the cold heat toxin Bi of various sores: rat Li Sheng tamped and applied it. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Treatment Teeth hidden swelling and pain: beef and plum juice, an empty drink, still frequent gargle. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

"Niu Li is good at relieving the hidden poison of various classics. "Ben Jing" is used to treat cold, heat and scrofula. Daming treats edema and abdominal fullness, Su Gong treats lower blood and cold accumulation in hernia, tamps insects in cattle and horse sores, and Shizhen treats scabies and insects. It always takes the effect of removing damp heat. "