Cabbage

Cabbage

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] blue vegetable (Qianjin Shizhi), Western Turquoise Blue (materia medica), cabbage and cabbage (Chinese vegetable cultivation), cabbage, lotus white and sunflower cabbage (Chinese medicine and plant Atlas).

[source] stems and leaves of Brassica oleracea.

[plant morphology] cabbage

Herbs biennial, 30-90 cm high, all with white powder. Basal leaves broad, fleshy and thick, obovate or oblong, 15-40 cm long. Such as peony petals, overlapping layer by layer, close to the center into a ball, the inner leaves are white, the outer leaves are often light green; stem leaves obovate, smaller, sessile. Rachis drawn from surrounding basal leaves, raceme, pale yellow flowers; sepals 4, narrow and erect, star shaped; petals 4; 4 strong stamens; calyx 1. The long horned fruit is conical. The flowering period is from May to June.

It is cultivated all over the country.

[chemical constituents] Brassica oleracea contains glucose, brassinol and indole-3-acetaldehyde. The content of the former is 0.5-0.9% in young leaves and 0.05-0.2% in old leaves. It contains phenolic components such as flavonol, anthocyanin, chlorogenic acid, allyl isothiocyanate and sulfur-containing antithyroid substance. This antithyroid substance disappears after cooking and heating. In addition, there are many vitamin U-like substances, which have the effect of treating gastric ulcer pain.

The seed contained 35% fatty oil, 125 mg ketene isothiocyanate and 3-butene isothiocyanate, and 5-vinyl-2-thioxazolidone, an antithyroid substance. In addition, it also contains a variety of amino acids, methionine amino acids, etc.

[nature and taste] Qianjin Shizhi: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] ① Qianjin Shizhi: "long time eating can benefit the kidney, fill the marrow and brain, benefit the five zang organs and regulate the six Fu organs. "

② According to Materia Medica, it can nourish bone marrow, benefit the five organs and the six Fu organs, promote benzene retention, dredge the channels and collaterals to accumulate Qi, clear the eyes and ears, improve people's health, sleep less, benefit the heart and strength, and strengthen the muscles and bones. Cure yellow poison, boil to make Potamogeton crispus, through the night waterlogging color yellow, and salt food, go to the heart under the knot Fu Qi. "