Today I saw a strange tree covered with dry spines. The main spines are oblong-conical, 3–15 cm long or longer, 0.3–1 cm in diameter; the branch spines are 1–6 cm long and sharply pointed at the ends of the spines. The surface is purple-brown or tan. Many people are cutting this thorn with scissors, and the blue basket on the ground is already full of this thorn. I carefully placed these thorns on my hand and found that the thorns were light, hard, and not easy to break. Faced with this strange tree thorn, I asked curiously about a peasant uncle who was cutting this thorn with scissors, and I wondered what kind of tree it was. The farmer's uncle told me enthusiastically that the tree was a deciduous or small tree of the legume saponaria saponaria, up to 30 meters tall; that the branches were gray to dark brown; that the thorn was a chinese medicine called the soap horn thorn.
This tree will also give birth to a kind of pod 12-37 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, straight or twisted, slightly thick flesh, scooped on both sides, or some pods are short, more or less cylindrical, 5-13 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, curved crescent-shaped banded pods, usually called pig's tooth soap, no seeds inside; the neck is 1-3.5 cm long; the petals are leathery, brownish brown or reddish brown, often covered with white powder frost; the seeds are numerous, oblong or oval, 11-13 mm long, 8-9 mm wide, brown, bright. The flowering period is from March to May, and the fruiting period is from May to December.
This thorn can be harvested, dried, or sliced fresh throughout the year. Slices are irregular thick slices. The surface of the wood is yellowish white, the pulp is spongy reddish brown, the surrounding brownish purple or tan, brittle, easy to break. Odorless, spicy, warm. Return to the liver and stomach meridians. It has the effect of reducing swelling and detoxification, draining pus and killing insects. It is often used for the initial onset of carbuncle or the inability of pus to collapse; external treatment of scabies and leprosy.
It seems that this peasant uncle is a master who likes to talk, and when I was about to turn around and leave after listening to his introduction to the soap horn thorn, he talked to me again about the treatment of diseases with the soap horn thorn. He said that in the folk there are many convenient prescriptions that use soap horn thorns;
For example, use soap horn thorns (half-burned with raw) 15 grams, real mussel powder 9 grams. After the two medicines are ground into a fine powder. Take 3 grams at a time and mix with wine. Cradle carbuncles that often occur in women during lactation can be treated. It can also be used with soap horn thorns and cranberries as equal parts, and warm wine to take 6 grams to treat women after childbirth because the milk does not leak, which can cause poisoning.
If someone has sores on the body and this sore is swollen but has no head, then it is necessary to make full use of the effect of the soap pod thorn to pull out the poison and dispel the wind. Those who have not yet completed carbuncles can be led to dissipation, those who are broken can be led to the head, and those who have collapsed can be led to the characteristics of pus and end with soap horn thorns and burned ash. 9 grams per serving, wine tone, chew sunflower seeds three or five, decoction medicine sent down for treatment.
Treatment of fetal clothing: can be burned with soap horn thorns, 3 grams per serving, warm wine down.
Children's heavy tongue is caused by the baby's fire, the baby always cries, do not eat milk! You can burn ash with soap horn thorns, put a little ice flakes, rinse your mouth, mix it under your tongue, and salivate itself.
Apply an appropriate amount of external use, steam the juice with vinegar and apply to the affected area.
This peasant uncle may be a person who has studied Chinese herbal medicine, but he is suffering from the constraints of the family environment and has not really exerted his talents, and when it comes to Chinese herbal medicine, I suddenly find that his old face has a bright smile. To honor the peasant uncle, I did not walk away, nor did I dare to walk away. I knew that at this point I could only respectfully listen to him finish all that I had to say before I could say goodbye to him. On the way home, I have always thought that people should not be disguised, and the masters are in the folk. It's really endless learning, just such a strange-looking tree full of thorns, there are so many learnings...
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