Chinese herbal medicine: the efficacy and function of lotus leaf

lotus leaf

("Dietotherapy Materia Medica")

Polygonum plants.

The source is the leaves of Nelumbo nucifera in Nymphaeaceae. See "Lotus Seed" for plant morphology.

Harvest from June to September, remove the petiole, air dry to 70% to 80%, fold into a semi-quadrangle, and air dry. Fresh leaves or tender leaves (lotus money) are also used in summer.

The dried leaves of medicinal materials are usually folded into semi-circular or fan-shaped, complete or slightly damaged. After the blade is unfolded, it looks like a round shield with a diameter of more than 30 cm. The front is turquoise or brownish green, with short white glandular hairs: the back is grayish yellow or grayish green, smooth and shiny; There are prominent petiole residues in the center; Full margin; The veins are obvious, with 265438 thick veins +0 ~ 22, radiating outward from the center and divided into many fine veins. Crispy. Slightly fragrant and astringent. It is best to have large, intact, green leaves without spots.

It is produced in most parts of the country.

Chemical constituents include Phyllanthus urinaria, Nelumbo nuciferine, protonated Nelumbo nuciferine, Isonuciferine, N- demethyl Nelumbo nuciferine, D-N- methyl piperine, annonacine, Liriodendron, quercetin, isoquercitrin, lotus glycoside, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid and tannin. It also contains anti-mitotic alkaline components.

Lotus leaf processing: wash with clear water, cut off pedicels and edges, shred and dry in the sun. Lotus leaf charcoal: wash the lotus leaf, put it into the pot, cover the pot with a slightly smaller diameter, and paste white paper on the top. The joint of the two pots is sealed with yellow mud and calcined until the white paper turns brown. Cease fire and take it out when it gets cold.

The taste is bitter and flat.

① southern Yunnan herbs: "mild in nature and pungent in taste."

② "Materia Medica worships the original": "It tastes bitter, flat and nontoxic."

(3) A Compendium of Medical Forest: "Bitter, flat and slightly salty."

Meridian enters the heart, liver and spleen.

(1) Materia Medica seeks truth: "Enter the gallbladder meridian."

② "Materia Medica Rejuvenation": "Into the heart, liver and lungs."

③ Summary of Materia Medica: "Entering the Foot is too Yin and Yang to know the classics."

Indications: clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis and promoting hair growth, and stopping bleeding along the yang. It can be used for treating diarrhea due to summer dampness, dizziness, edema due to water vapor, thunderstorm, hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, hematochezia and postpartum hematemesis.

(1) A curse: "Broken blood."

2 "Materia Medica": "The main blood is bloating and abdominal pain, and the postpartum afterbirth is insufficient, so cook it with wine; And the staple food is wild mushroom poison, cooked and eaten. "

3 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Quench thirst, dry mouth after delivery, heart and lung dryness, boredom."

④ Herbs for daily use: "Treating hematemesis and vomiting blood."

⑤ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "The wind and heat in the supernatant can stop dizziness, phlegm, shortness of breath, nausea and headache."

⑥ Pinhui essentials: "Treat crab poisoning."

⑦ "Outline": "Nourishing vitality, benefiting the spleen and stomach, astringent and turbid, dissipating blood stasis, confusing edema, carbuncle and sore. Treat hematemesis and hemoptysis. " Hemorrhage, hemorrhage, blood drowning, blood stranguria, postpartum hemorrhage, injury, septicemia. "

8 Herbal Xuan Tong: "Stimulate appetite and digestion, stop bleeding and solidify essence."

⑨ Compendium of Materia Medica: "Washing kidney and bladder wind."

Attending Compendium of Materia Medica: "Boil juice, cure white turbidity, (calcine) retention, cure lotus sores."

⑾ "Taiping is new", cool and relieve summer heat, quench thirst and produce fluid, and treat diarrhea and relieve summer heat. "

⑿ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Used for women's chronic metritis, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, men's nocturnal emission or nocturia; Another antidote. "

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 1 ~ 3 yuan (fresh 0.5 ~ 1 2); I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: pounding, grinding, mixing or frying, washing.

Avoid 1 "Outline": "I am afraid of tung oil, poria cocos and silver."

2 "Materia Medica from the New": "Ascending, dispersing and consuming, and those who are empty are forbidden."

(3) Diet Spectrum of Interesting Life: "Anyone who suffers from excessive pathogenic factors in upper energizer should be treated to eliminate pathogenic factors, and should not be used."

Prescription ① is used to treat summer heat in late autumn and early onset of damp heat: Fructus Forsythiae San Qian (removing heart), Semen Armeniacae Amarum (peeling, sharpening and grinding), Fructus Trichosanthis shell San Qian, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Poria San Qian, Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparata, Radix Glycyrrhizae and Eupatorium odoratum. Add two lotus leaves as a guide and decoct in water. (On Seasonal Diseases)

(2) Treatment of edema caused by yang water: lotus leaf coke, grinding into powder. Two yuan each time, rice, eat three times a day. (Key points of syndrome differentiation and treatment)

(3) Treatment of thunder head wind syndrome, head and face swelling and pain, aversion to cold and fever, like typhoid fever: a lotus leaf, Cimicifuga five dollars, Atractylodes five dollars. Decoct in water and warm clothes. (Qingzhen Decoction in Neijing)

(4) Treating yang by yin, causing hematemesis and bleeding: raw lotus leaves, raw mugwort leaves, raw cypress leaves and raw rehmannia root are equally divided. To study, pills are as big as chickens. Take one pill each time, decocted in water. ("Woman" Sisheng Pill)

⑤ Treatment of hematemesis: Once the lotus leaves are frosted and burned, they will remain, and the new water will be two yuan after grinding. ("After Elbow") Two tender lotus leaves and seven, rolled water clothes. (summary)

⑥ Treatment of hematemesis and hemoptysis: Bake lotus leaves and drink two yuan for meals. (behind the experience)

⑦ Treatment of bleeding in collapse: half a piece of lotus leaf (fried), one or two pieces of pollen typhae and one or two pieces of scutellaria baicalensis each. To end it. Every empty glass of wine took San Qian away. (summary)

⑧ Red and white diarrhea treatment: lotus leaves are burned and grinded, and each dose is two yuan: red diarrhea honey and white diarrhea sugar soup. (summary)

Pet-name ruby cure postpartum blood circulation, bored, know nothing. Or nonsense, angry: three lotus leaves, two cattail pollen, two licorice (reddish, filed flat). Apply medicine, pound and sift powder. Every time you take San Qian, take a glass of water and fry it until it is half cooked. Add the juice of Radix Rehmanniae and half a spoonful of honey and fry it for three or five times, regardless of the time. ("Sheng Huifang" Lotus Leaf Powder)

Attending to treat typhoid fever in pregnancy, fever, boredom, thirst and fear of damaging fetal viscera: one or two tender lotus leaves (baked) and half two mussel powder flowers. The top is the bottom. Take two yuan each time, add a little honey and take it before eating. ("Three Causes" covers tires)

⑾ Treatment of proctoptosis: paste the lotus leaf with water, bake it, grind it, drink two yuan, and finally sit with the lotus leaf. (Experience Prescription)

⑿ Treatment of systemic wind: 30 lotus leaves, a bucket of lime, juice, and boiled stains. It's only half a day. I do it every few days. (Sheng Huifang)

[13] ZhiRise of the Legend Pill: Newborn lotus leaf, mashed and wrapped in salt. (Picking Fiona Fang)

14. treatment of yellow sore: the lotus leaf is burnt, ground into fine powder, mixed with sesame oil and applied to the affected area twice a day. (Selected Works of Unilateral New Medical Law)

⒂ Treatment of foot and shin sores, leg and knee sores, pus dripping, heat arthralgia, itching and pain: four pieces of dried lotus leaves, two and a half pieces of Ligusticum. Finely cut, two buckets of clear water, fry to five liters, and remove the residue. Warm and soaked, still taking rhubarb left meridian soup. ("Syndrome Treatment Standard" Lotus Leaf Ligusticum Decoction)

⒃ Treatment of lacquer sore: Lotus leaf 1 kg (dry person). Boil five liters with a bucket of water. Wash, mix and dry with oil and paint. (Sheng Jizong recorded lotus leaf soup)

⒄ Treatment of traumatic injury, evil blood attacking the heart and dull pain: five catties of lotus leaves are dried with fire. Light the cigarette and grind it carefully. Before eating, urinate with the boy's hot urine-a small lamp, and adjust the San Qian, taking it three times a day. (Sheng Huifang)

⒅ Treatment of axe injury: burn lotus leaves and grind them. ("lakeside collection simplified formula")

Master discusses ① Outline: "According to" The Eighty-one Theory of Gangrene ",acne has already broken out. If it is attacked by cold, the orifices will be closed, and the blood clot will turn black, which will cause physical pain and limb paralysis. However, the muscles will be warmed to eliminate pathogenic factors, so the hot air will resume and spot out. It is suitable to treat with purple back lotus leaf powder. Covering with lotus leaves can raise yang, disperse blood stasis and blood, and stiff silkworm can relieve depression. This medicine is only available to many living people, better than human teeth and borneol. " He also wore Ethan's "Essentials of Syndrome Treatment", which made him thin and inferior. Taking it alone can get rid of yang edema.

② Compendium of Medical Forest: "Lotus leaves work together with lotus roots and lotus hearts, but enter the liver, clearing heat and eliminating dampness, clearing qi into the liver, and entering it with green." But bitter taste is actually clearing heart, clearing gold and solidifying water, so it can dispel blood stasis, store essence, reduce fever and calm qi and blood. "

Remind you: Lotus leaf, Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.