2011年11月28日星期一

Sugar candy

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica"
[ ] Pinyin name B n T 's n to be be
English name ] [ rock candy, Crystal sugar
[ source ]
Medicine source: for gramineous plants in sugarcane stem sap, made of white sugar after decocting into ice crystals.
Latin animal mineral name: Saccharum sinensis Roxb.
[ ] the original morphology of sugarcane, perennial herb. Culm Height of about 3M, thick 2-5cm, green or red brown, culms in inflorescences with white tomentum below. Leaf sheaths longer than internodes, glabrous, only the mouth of the sheath hairy; ligule membranous, truncate, ca. 2mm; leaf blade flattened, glabrous on both surfaces, with white hypertrophy of the main pulse, length 40-80cm, width of about 20mm. Inflorescence a large, up to 60cm, spindle with white tomentum; rachis internode length 7-12mm, margin sparsely ciliate; sessile spikelet lanceolate, long 4.5-5mm, a base plate having longer than spikelet 2-3 times the filiform hairs; the upper glume membranous, margin hairy, apex slightly blunt was first, with 2 ridges, 4 veins, second Ying navicular, with 3 veins, apex acute; first lemma oblong-lanceolate, 1 veins, apex acute, second lemma narrowed into linear, ca. second 3mm, palea lanceolate, ca. 2mm. Shank spikelets sessile spikelets and; pedicel long 3-4mm, glabrous, apex slightly inflated. Flower, fruit in autumn.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: South China around the common cultivated plants.
Resource distribution: South China around the common cultivated plants.
[ ] taste Gan; flat
[ ] the lung spleen meridian;
[ function ] the spleen and stomach; Runfei cough. The main Qi deficiency of spleen and stomach; lung dryness cough or sputum with blood;
[ usage] oral administration: into the soup, or 10-15g; containing; or into pills, ointments.
[ ] the treatise" on the" Shi Yan: sugar of damp heat, eat a tooth NI rickets. Recently, with aphthae, eat candy ' more, take the amounted to wear damp heat stagnation or malnutrition. And the violence to coughs, vomiting blood suddenly stop, with rock candy and bird's nest dish cooked with even served, take the nourishing lung and stomach, but not only cut from it. But the stomach with a phlegm, nauseous, with its sweet love diaphragm so.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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