a prince

a prince

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] baigongcao, changsun, huangsun, dusk, haisun, Zhansheng (another record), mumeng (Tao Hongjing), zaoou (a collection of Materia Medica), baijieou (a textual research on the name and reality of plants).

[source] it is the rhizome of Liliaceae.

Plant morphology

Perennial herbs. Rhizome stoloniform, stout and long, nodose. Stem simple 1, erect, ca. 30 cm high, simple, usually 4-lobed at apex; leaf blade broadly elliptic, apex acute, base cuneate, entire, sessile. The flowers are solitary on the impeller, with long stalks; the outer perianth is 4-petaled, yellowish green, broadly lanceolate, the apex is reversed, and the calyx is flaky; the inner perianth is 4-petaled, linear; the stamens are 8, the filaments are slender, the anther base is inserted, long; the ovary is superior, spherical, and the style is 4. Fleshy berry, purple black, loculicidal. It blooms in summer.

He was born in the mountains. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] dig from Bailu to frost, remove the leaves, wash and dry.

Bitter and smooth.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and flat. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Shennong, Leigong: bitter, non-toxic. Huangdi: sweet, nontoxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat arthralgia, limb pain, red and white dysentery.

① Ben Jing: "it can cure five viscera evil Qi, cold dampness arthralgia, limb pain and pain, knee cold pain. "

② Bielu: "Yiqi. "

③ "Tang Materia Medica" says: "it can control golden sores, break blood, generate muscles, relieve pain, relieve red and white dysentery, replenish deficiency and Qi, remove swelling of feet, and produce Yin and Yang. "

④ "Treatment of asthenia and fatigue" in the textual research on the names and facts of plants. "