Acorn

Acorn

(Lei Gong Paozhi Lun)

[synonyms] wife Li (Zhuangzi), oak Li (LvShiChunQiu), Er Ya (Erya), Zaodou (LvShiChunQiu, Gaoyou), oak Zi (Zhuangzi, simabiao), Zhudou (Tang materia medica), oak Dou Zi (rihuazi materia medica), oak Zi (Gangmu), oak Zi (yilinzuoyao), maliguo (Gangmu Shiyi).

[source] it is the fruit of Quercus acutissima.

[plant morphology] Quercus acutissima, also known as XuXi, Quercus (the book of songs), oak (Zhuangzi), Zhuzhu (the biography of Mao poetry), oak (Erya, Zheng xuanzhu), oak (Lu Ji, Shi Shu), Zhu (Ben Cao Shi Yi), oak (Ben Cao Tu Jing), oak (save famine Ben Cao), purple oak, oak bowl, Qinggang, Huang Ma oak, oak.

Deciduous trees, 15-20 m high, about 60 cm in diameter. The bark is grayish black with irregular cleft; branchlets are dark grayish brown, glabrous, with many yellowish lenticels; young branches are yellowish brown, villous; winter buds are conical, grayish brown, scales broad ovate, hairy. Leaves alternate, leathery, oblong lanceolate or oblong ovate, 9-15 cm long, 2.5-3.6 cm wide, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate; margin spiny serrate, lateral veins 12-17 pairs, straight to the tooth tip, dark green above, glossy below, pale green below, yellow pubescence when young, glabrescent later, only veins axillary hairy; petiole 2-3 cm long, hairy. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers in catkin, usually several gathered in axils of new branches, 6-12 cm long, pilose, perianth usually 5-lobed, stamens 4, rare; female flowers 1-3 gathered in axils of new branches, ovary 3-locular, style 3; cup-shaped, nutshell about 1 / 2 weak, scales narrowly lanceolate, imbricate, retroflexed, covered with gray white pilose, nuts ovoid or ovoid It is oblong and light brown. The flowering period is May. The fruiting period is from September to October of the next year.

It grows in hills or hillsides. It is distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan, etc.

The root bark or bark (oak bark) and cupule (acorn shell) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in winter, the fruits are harvested after ripening, the shell bucket is removed, the shell bucket is removed after being dried in the sun, and then dried to the foot, and stored in a ventilated and dry place.

[chemical composition] the seed contains 50.4% starch and 5% fatty oil. The oil content of the oil produced in the southwest of Jiangsu Province is 15-20%. The content of tannin in Fagaceae is 19-29%. The content of tannin in leaves is 5-10%.

[processing] Lei Gong's treatise on Processing: "if you make acorn, remove the coarse skin and steam it, then file it for five pieces. "

[flavor] bitter and astringent, slightly warm.

① Tang materia medica: "bitter taste, mild temperature, non-toxic. "

② Yucatalpa medicine solution: "bitter taste, astringent Qi, flat. "

[Guijing] "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "start with Yangming, foot Taiyin and Shaoyin meridians. "

[function indications] astringent bowel and solid off. For diarrhea, prolapse and hemorrhoids.

① "Tang Materia Medica": "the main dysentery, thick stomach, fat and healthy people. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "astringent intestines stop diarrhea. "

③ "Astringent essence". "

④ "Treatment of fetal hernia". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction or powder. External use: vinegar grinding or burning storage of the end of the research to adjust the application.

[should avoid] at the beginning of dysentery, those with damp heat stagnation should not take it.

① The classic of materia medica: "Damp heat is not suitable for dysentery. "

② Ben Cao Hui: "it's forbidden for patients with disease and fire. "

[formula selection] 1. For the treatment of Valley dysentery, there are more than 100 lines day and night: two liang acorns, one or two dried Broussonetia papyrifera leaves (stir fried). Take the medicine and pound it into powder. Every time you take it, you can fry the black plum soup. (shenghuifang Shenmiao acorn powder)

② Treatment of infantile red and white dysentery: Acorn, ginger, brown sugar, fried water. (Nanjing folk herbs)

③ Hemorrhoids bleeding: Acorn powder, glutinous rice powder each one liter. Fried yellow, boiled water for fruit, steamed cooked food on rice. (strange evidence and strange formula)

④ Treatment of dysentery and anorectal prolapse: aconite powder, pig fat and application. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑤ For the treatment of stone carbuncle, if it is as firm as stone, and does not make pus: a piece of Quercus, grind it on the bluestone with vinegar, apply it on the swelling, and dry it even more. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑥ To cure infant Yi hernia, the child was born, and he stopped crying, but did not see the shape of the disease. Later, when he was one or two years old, he began to know that it was hernia: a pair of yuanyangguo on Mali tree, a pair of yuanyangguo, can cure three people, plus seven lychee seeds (broken by pestle), and three coins of flat wood. The same decoction. External use of Cupressus fumigation wash. (health preserving experience Collection)