Chinese herbal medicine bayberry

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Aliases: 朹子 (BeihuLu), ShengshengMei, Bai Dimei (Pinhui Essentials), Vermilion, Shumei (Chinese Tree Taxonomy).

Source 《Dietary Therapeutic Herbs》

Source: Fruit of the arbutus plant Arbutus in the family Bayberry family. The fruit is harvested in early summer when ripe.

The original form is an evergreen tree, up to 12 meters high, with a spherical crown. Single-leaf alternate; long oval or inverted lanceolate, leathery, 8–13 cassettes long, upper narrow, slightly blunt at the apex, narrowly wedge-shaped at the base, full margin, or a few serrated wontons at the apex, dark green above, shiny, slightly talkative on the underside, smooth and hairless, with golden glands. The flowers are hermaphroditic; the male inflorescence is constantly born in the leaf axils, cylindrical, about 3 cm long, yellow-red; the male flowers have 1 bud, ovate, sharp apex, 2 to 4 small buds, ovate, 5 to 6 stamens; the female inflorescence is ovate oblong, about 1.5 cm long, often solitary in the leaf axils; the female flowers have buds and small buds at the base, the ovary is ovate, and the flower column is extremely short. The drupe is spherical in shape, about 1.8 cm in diameter, the outer peel is dark red, formed by most of the densely grown cysts, the inner peel is hard, about 9 mm in diameter, and contains 1 seed without endosperm. Flowering occurs in April. Fruiting in early summer.

The roots (bayberry root), bark (bayberry bark), and seed kernel (bayberry nucleus) of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes.

The habitat is divided into the southeastern provinces of china.

The chemical composition of the fruit contains glucose, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, lactic acid and wax, etc., and contains monoglucosides and a small amount of diglucosides. Leaves contain volatile oils and tannins, dandelion syramine, α-eaumarinin alcohol, β-pyrrolizol, razorhex alcohol, racemic inositol and arbutus bark glycosides. Heartwood contains gum.

Sexual taste is sweet and sour, warm.

(1) "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Warm. "

(2) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Hot, slightly poisonous." "

(3) "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Sour, warm, non-toxic." "

(4) "Daily Materia Medica": "Sour and sweet, warm, non-toxic." "

It is incorporated into the lungs and stomach meridians.

(1) "The Sutra Meets the Origin": "Into the liver, spleen, and heart." "

(2) "Yuqi Medicinal Solution": "Start with the Taiyin Lung Meridian." "

(3) "Materia Medica Renewed": "Into the spleen, stomach and two meridians." "

Functional indications for the treatment of thirst quenching, and stomach digestion. Cures polydipsia, vomiting, dysentery, abdominal pain, cleansing the stomach, relieving alcohol.

The fruit cures heart and stomach pain, dysentery, vomiting; bark can stop bleeding and cure diarrhea, external knife wound bleeding, bruises, muscle and bone pain.

(1) Meng Xue: "He Wuzang can purify the stomach and intestines, remove annoyance and evil qi, and also cure diarrhea." "

(2) "Materia Medica": "Quench thirst." "

(3) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cure vomiting and vomiting wine." "

(4) "Kaibao Materia Medica": "The Lord goes to phlegm, stops vomiting, and consumes food and wine." "

(5) "Yuqi Medicinal Solution": "Acid and astringency are reduced, cardiopulmonary upset is treated, dysentery is treated, and hemostasis is stopped." "

(6) "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Cure oral and throat inflammation." "

(7) "Chinese Medicinal Plant Atlas": "Effective for heart and stomach pain and cholera." "

Dosage for internal use: raw, soaked, pickled or burned. External use: pounding, burning the end of the grind to rub the nose or adjust the compress.

Note (1) Meng Xue: "Do not eat too much, even damage teeth and tendons." "

(2) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Avoid raw onions." "

(3) "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Eating more makes people hot." "

(4) "The Book of Fengyuan": "Blood is hot and fiery, and it is not advisable to eat more." "

(5) "Materia Medica from new": "Eating more sores causes phlegm." "

Compound (1) cure diarrhea: bayberry burned to serve. ("PuJifang" Yangmeifang)

(2) Treatment of dysentery and prevention of heat stroke: bayberry soaked in shochu. Or fry for five dollars. (Jiangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)

(3) Cure gastrointestinal distension: bayberry pickled salt for later, the longer the better, take a few boiled water to serve. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

(4) Cure headache more than once: Bayberry is the end, with a little nose twitching to take a sneeze. (Compendium)

(5) Cure all injuries, stop bleeding and generate muscles, no scars: bayberry and salt core pestle like mud, into a straight, bamboo tube in the middle of the harvest, when broken, it is filled, and the small can be applied. ("Behind the Experience")

(6) Cure soup fire wounds: bayberry ash is the end, and the tea oil is applied. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

(7) Treatment of nasal polyps or general granulations: bayberry (with nuclei) with cold rice grains mashed extremely rotten, apply to the affected area. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

(8) Bayberry is soaked with aged wine (the older the wine, the better), eat one or two pieces a day, twice a day, to cure dysentery.

(9) Bayberry is soaked with sorghum wine, and one or two pieces are eaten each time, twice a day to cure diarrhea and sha belly pain.

(10) 6 grams of bayberry bark, decoction, treatment of diarrhea and gum ulcers.

(11) Arbutus bark research, 3 grams each time, boiling water to treat acute gastroenteritis; if each dose of 10 grams, morning and evening, with boiling water or shochu to take, treatment of lumbar contusion pain.

(12) 15 grams to 30 grams of bayberry bark, fried in water, cure fistula.

(13) Diarrhea does not stop. Burn it with bayberry, grind it to the end, two dollars per serving, and send the rice soup down. Take twice a day.

(14) Scabies. Wash it with arbutus bark and root decoction.

(15) Toothache. Gargle with arbutus bark and root decoction in water.

Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine