Salt bran

Salt bran

(Kaibao materia medica)

[synonym] senu salt (Kaibao materia medica), yanfuzi, yanmeizi, yanzhuzi (compendium), mufuzi (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine), pseudo Schisandra chinensis, youyanguo (Nanning medical records).

[source] it is the fruit of Rhus chinensis.

[plant morphology] Haloxylon (Zheng Zi Tong), also known as "Zhen Mu" (Shanhai Jing), suanshi and Xutong (materia medica Collection), yanbran tree (Kaibao materia medica), Fu mu (mu sketch Jing), Muyan (Tongzhi), Tianyan (lingcao Pian), Wuzhen and Yanfu wood (compendium), yanshuangbai (preparation of raw herbs), kuyanji (Ningxiang County annals), Fuyan tree（ Tianju silkworm room record), binyanfu, yanhuimu, gallnut, paomu, eucommia, Feitian centipede, poliangsan, baomu, cerin salt, houyanchai, yanbaimu, gutongyu, yanzishu, lianpengchai, yanshumiao, wuyantao, Banyang, Fulian, yansuan, nvmu, wubeichai.

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, up to 8 m in height. The bark is grayish brown with numerous lenticels and triangular leaf marks, and the winter buds have grayish yellow hairs. Leaflets sessile, ovate to ovate elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 4-6 cm wide, apex acute, base rounded to cuneate, margin coarsely rounded serrate, with brown hairs below. Panicle terminal, pedicel densely brown pilose; flowers small, hybrid, bisexual; sepals 5, broadly ovate, apex obtuse; petals 5, milky white, obovate oblong, margin medial base pilose; stamens 5, anthers yellow, T-shaped, filaments yellow; pistils shorter than stamens, ovary superior, style 3, stigma capitate; stamens slightly small, central with degenerate ovary. Drupe suboblate, ca. 5 mm in transverse diameter, red, puberulent. The flowering period is from August to September. The fruit ripens in October.

It is a common wild positive tree in South Central and southwest China. Distributed in Northeast and Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

The root (salt bran seed root), root bark (salt bran root bark), bark (salt bran tree bark), leaf (salt bran leaf), flower (salt bran wood flower), young branch seedling (gallnut seedling), etc. of this plant are also used for medicine. See special regulations for details.

[chemical composition] salt bran contains 50-70% tannin, 80% tannin, mainly penta-m-digallocatechoyl - β - glucose, 2-4% free gallic acid, fat, resin and starch. Organic acids such as malic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, etc. There were flavonoid glycosides in the pre-test.

Sour and cool.

① Kaibao materia medica: "it tastes sour, slightly cold and non-toxic. "

② "Compendium": "sour and salty, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: generate fluid and moisten lung, reduce fire and phlegm, collect sweat and stop dysentery. Treatment of phlegm cough, throat obstruction, jaundice, night sweat, dysentery, stubborn ringworm, carbuncle poison, head wind, white dust.

① "Materia medica collection": "it's mainly about dandruff. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "eliminate phlegm and malaria, heat accumulation in the throat, throat obstruction, quench thirst, detoxify alcohol, jaundice, cold and heat in the sky, cough phlegm, whiten and grow hair. "

③ "The compendium of Medical Sciences": "it can produce fluid and reduce fire, resolve phlegm, moisten lung and kidney, disinfect, stop dysentery and sweat. Treat rheumatism, eye disease. "

④ "To cure blood and dysentery, we can do five times as much as we can. "

⑤ "Wash sores" in the wild medicine plant picture. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: decocting, washing, tamping or grinding.

[selection] ① treatment of chronic tinea: yanbran Ben Zi and wangbuliuxing. Dry and grind, mix with sesame oil. (Hunan medical records)

② Cure carbuncle poison fester: salt skin wood son and flower pound, fragrant oil adjust apply. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of lung deficiency cough chest pain for a long time: Research on dried fruits of rhubarb. Take one to three yuan in the morning with boiled water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

According to the compendium, salt bran can soften and moisten, so it can reduce cremation and sputum disinfection; acid can close and astringent, so it can produce fluid, moisten lung and stop dysentery. The kidney governs five kinds of fluid. It enters lung for phlegm, spleen for saliva, heart for sweat, liver for tears, and self for saliva. Salt bran, five times the first to go kidney and liver, can save water, so phlegm and saliva, night sweat, rheumatism, tears, tears, saliva syndrome, all suitable for use. "