Water chestnut

[ source ]" Daily" from Chinese Materia Medica
[ ] B Q Pinyin name golf golf
English name [ ] corm of Waternut
[ alias ] Shao, the water chestnut, mushroom, black taro, taro past, wooz, Bo umbilical, Montenegro edge, Li, iron Bo umbilical, horseshoe, red arrowhead, Ma yam
[ source ]
Medicine source: Cyperaceae plants water chestnut corm.
Latin animal mineral name: Eleocharis dulcis ( Burm.f. ) Trin.ex Henschel [ Andropogon dulcis Burm.f. Plantaginea Retz. Heleochuris; Scirpus; plantaginea R.Br; Eleocharis tuberosa Schult]
Harvest and storage: Winter digging dirt, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form of Chinese water chestnut, aquatic herbaceous perennial, high 30-100cm. Creeping rhizomes slender, apex dilated into bulb. Culms tufted, terete, thick 2-5mm, smooth, a plurality of transverse diaphragm. Without the leaves, stem basal sheaths 2-3. Spikelets terete, length 1.5-3.5cm, diameter 5-6mm, pale green with many flowers; scales ovate-oblong spirally arranged, length 5mm, width of about 3mm, in 1, a light brown fine bristles; the 7, smaller nut is long 1.5 times, a barb; stigmas 3. Nutlets broadly obovate, lenticular, apex not constricted neck collar, and into the ring, which is of 2.4mm length, width of about 1.8mm, brown, smooth; stylopodium triangle, width of nutlets 1 / 2. Flower, fruit 5-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: planting in water field.
Resource distribution: most parts of our country have cultivation.
Cultivated [ ]
Biological characteristics, like the warm climate and humid environment. Should choose fecund, loose sandy loam paddy field cultivation, should not be planted in clay soil.
Cultivation techniques of corm propagation method, using the. In late June to late July, according to the spacing 5cm x 5cm seeding, soil covering, always wet. About 20d, height 20-25cm, transplanted to field, according to the spacing 50cm x 35cm plant, 1 of each kind of seedling. Each root seedling of 1 strains of.
Field management, before the transplant, in the field of applying manure as fertilizer, topdressing fertilizer growth stage of 2-3, give priority to with nitrogenous fertilizer. Before November in the field of keep the depth 3-5cm, November will be drained.
[ character ] character identification, bulbous spherical, slightly flat, unequal in size, large diameter up to 3cm, the lower end of the central depression, upper part of the top several aggregated Bud Blight, outsourcing the scales. Surface of the purple brown or yellow-brown, festival, annular, with the remnants of the Yellow membranous scalelike leaves, sometimes with small lateral bud. High profile of the white, tender crisp, rich in starch and water. Gas micro, sweet. With a big, fat and tender is preferred.
[ ] the chemical composition containing puchiin ( puchiin ), cells are in namely (cytokinin ) N - ( delta 2 - prenyl ) gland glucoside [N6 - ( delta 2-isopentenyl ) adenosine], starch, protein, fat and other.
[ ] puchiin pharmacological effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and bacillus can inhibit gas production. Not heat, not soluble in organic solvents, are not animal charcoal adsorption. Tile Borrelia instrument measurement, it can inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli respiratory amounted to 80% ( after 10 hours).
[ processing ] wash, peel off the skin. Water chestnut powder and water chestnut: take mang wash, remove buds, grinding, leaching white pulp, sedimentation, drying, i.e..
[ ] taste sweet; cold
[ ] the lung meridian tropism;
[ function ] heat fluid; phlegm; consumer product. The main epidemic febrile disease thirst; sore throat; phlegm heat cough; red eye; diabetes; diarrhea; jaundice; leaching; dyspepsia; wart
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 60-120g; or chewed; or Daozhi; or leach liquor, or wheat. External: moderate, calcining of grind end Caesar; or wheat point eye: or graduate with eraser.
[ note ] deficiency and blood deficiency Shen clothing.
[ ] of epidemic febrile disease cure attached side sun, thirst, foaming and viscosity do not come: water chestnut juice, pear juice, fresh reed root juice, Ophiopogon japonicus juice, lotus root juice (or sugar cane pulp). Consider how many temporary, and evenly cool clothes, don't like cold, heavy Tang Dun clothes. (" Wen Bing Tiao Bian" five juice drink ) II to treat jaundice damp-heat, dysuria: water chestnut break, pan Tang Daicha, four two each. (" Quanzhou Materia Medica" ) the cure diarrhea white : take good water wash, dry, without making the broken, in the bottle into good liquor dipping, Wong sealed storage. In two patients, and chew, hollow with wine down. ( Tang Yao" experience" ) the cure mass in the abdomen: water chestnut in dog with alcohol leaching drying, daily fasting eat seven pieces, and gradually disappear. (" the classics" on the treatment of abdominal fullness and swell ): Black taro peeled, fill in the male tripe, sewing, cooking is not eat sand, salt. (" the cure" materia medica Sutra ) blood stool: water chestnut Daozhi half clock, wine and a half, hollow clothes. (" the mysterious side." ) treat woman metrorrhagia: the water chestnut is an old one, burnt deposit, grind end; the wine service. (" classes" ) and cure sore throat: water chestnut wrings juice cold clothes, each time four two. (" Quanzhou Materia Medica" ) in treating infantile aphtha: water chestnut burned dark, grind end with the. (" simple unilateral" ) with refractory verruca vulgaris: water chestnut break, with its white pulp friction wart, daily for three to four times, each time the wart body massage to soften the cuticle, take off, a painful and exposing the tip size of the spotting. Seven to ten days. (" Chinese Journal of Dermatology" 12 ( 2) : 741966 )
[ ] the discussion
1:" schema" according to Wang" Ji" for five party product cold inside, into the five diaphragm disease, Jinsuo pills with black triangular, note that the water chestnut cloud stem, the so-called Xiao Kennedy said, cover this in the.
2" new" materia medica: Wu taro slice, dried, as most consumer mass in the abdomen, and turtle with the best, also do not waste it, near the unknown medicine, special table out of. Li has planted, wild production of medicinal wild property, should be preferred. However, no wild property, i.e. picking garden the elderly, even dry skin biopsies for elimination, not special mass in the abdomen, can also open miasma. Or ask, water chestnuts, more and more people like to eat Wu, Wu, and the maximum mass in the abdomen, chestnut etc. seem to consumer goods, and its sweet taste with supplement. Not only with water chestnut takes the kidney-qi, does not release, and turtle, the Divine Comedy, white atractylodes rhizome, tuckahoe, such as Fructus aurantii and cast, can spleen to plot, fill and attack, so food is reactive, with benefit.
3:" black" Bencaoqiuzhen taro, a fruit, He Shu all words power breaking the plot of assault fortified positions, hemostatic, anti-dysentery, collapse, wiping the sores, live detoxification pox-developed, clear sound and its effect, if multiple, covered with sweet and cold, then in the chest is heat addition, and all it can eliminate flatulence; force good downward, and the bloody dysentery can remove blood poison. Is the air conditioning not food, food is each suffered from beriberi.
4:" don't record" Lord diabetes, rheumatism heat, heat, qi.
5" Hua Zi": appetizer fresh herb.
6" Materia Medica": five daily shower, diarrhea syndrome.
7" South Yunnan Materia Medica" : cure stomach heat Phlegm Blood, e..
8" compilation" materia medica: therapy five diaphragm gas, eliminating old food, should eat after the meal.
9:" schema" Lord bloody dysentery, blood, vaginal bleeding.
10" the classics": on cure alcoholics lung and stomach heat, sound is not clear.
11" North Yan food regulation": water chestnut powder : pure heart, open time.
12" new" materia medica: Qingxin fire, nourishing lung cold liver, digestion phlegm stagnation, broken, and pus and blood.
13 Meng Shen: wind eliminating poison, except in real heat; for fresh powder, bright eyes and ears, thirst, eliminating jaundice yellow.
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