Croton root

tree root

(compendium)

[synonym] root, snake blocking sword and traveling alone for thousands of miles (records of Lingnan herbal medicine).

[source] the rhizome of Croton, a family plant, is described in the section "Croton".

[collection] all year round. Wash, slice and dry.

[nature and taste] The Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army: "pungent, warm and poisonous. "

[functions and indications] it is used to treat carbuncle, sore, traumatic injury, snake injury, rheumatic arthralgia and stomachache.

Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "warm and disperse cold, dispel wind and detumescence. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping, boiling, soaking in water, soaking in wine, wiping or grinding. Oral: fried soup, 1 ~ 2 yuan.

[selected formula] ① for carbuncle and gangrene: root of Croton tree, wash, tamp the affected area and leave the head. (Yang Cheng's empirical formula)

② Treatment of snakehead and finger Entanglement: soak the affected part with croton root decoction.

③ Treatment: Croton root one or two, soak a jin of wine, rub the affected area.

④ Treatment of snakebite: Croton root one or two, into the ground Taurus five money, clover two money five minutes. A total of at the end of the wine transfer applied to the affected area. (2) Lingnan herbal medicine records

⑤ Treatment of rheumatic lumbocrural pain, stomach cold pain: Croton root one to two money, decoction. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)