Guati, also known as bitter cloves, melon stalks, melon stalks, is the fruit stalk of cucumbers of the Cucurbitaceae family. Melon seeds are also used medicinally. During the peak production period of melons, cut the green melon pedicles and dry them in the shade. Guati bitter cold is poisonous, the main stomach meridian, good to induce vomiting hot phlegm, food and lodging, and cure phlegm madness. Grinding the end of the nose, removing dampness and heat and reducing jaundice.
Other interpretations: The melon stalk refers to the part that connects the vine, and the guati refers to the position where the flower originally bloomed in the opposite direction.
【Source】Medicinal material base: It is the fruit stalk of the gourd of the Cucurbitaceae plant. Latin Flora Fauna Mineral Name: Harvesting and Storage: Ripe fruit is harvested in summer, and the cut fruit stalk is collected and dried in the shade or sun when eaten.
【Form】One year creeping or climbing herb. Stems and branches are yellowish-brown or white with rough hairs and protrusions. The tendrils are single and slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioles 8-12 cm long, grooved and pubescent, leaves thick papery, nearly round or kidney-shaped, long margins not divided or 3-7 shallowly lobed, lobes rounded and blunt at the apex, serrate. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; several male flowers, clustered in leaf axils; peduncle slender, 0.5-2 cm long, pubescent; calyx tube narrowly bell-shaped, densely covered with white pubescence, lobes nearly diamond-shaped, corolla yellow, about 2 cm long, lobes ovate-oblong, acutely acute; stamens 3, filaments very short, chamber bent, septum apex elongated; female flowers solitary, peduncle pubescent; ovary oblong, densely pubescent and bristles, columella 1-2 mm long, stigma close. The shape and color of the fruit vary greatly, generally spherical or oblong, the peel is smooth, with longitudinal or markings, and the flesh is white, yellow or green. The seeds are stained white or yellow, ovate or oblong. Flowering and fruiting period in summer.
[Sexual taste]: bitter, cold, poisonous.
"Benjing": bitter taste, cold.
"Don't Record": Toxic.
[Guijing]: into the spleen and stomach meridians.
"Materia Medica": Start with Taiyin, enough Yang Ming, Taiyin Sutra.
"Huiyan of Materia Medica": Start, Zuyang Ming Sutra.
"Materia Medica": into the heart, spleen two meridians.
【Efficacy】Spit out phlegm and stay in food, diarrhea and wet drinking. Treatment of phlegm and salivation, congestion of the upper belly, ruffian terrier in the chest, wind and phlegm epilepsy, damp heat jaundice, edema of the limbs, nasal congestion, and laryngeal paralysis. It is used for food accumulation, food poisoning, epilepsy and phlegm, and external treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
(1) "This Sutra": The main water, the body and limbs are swollen, go into the water, kill Gu poison, cough against the upper qi, and eat all fruits, and the disease is in the chest and abdomen, and they all vomit it.
②《别录》：去鼻中息肉，疗黄疸。
(3) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Treat cerebral congestion, dizziness, and spitting.
(4) "Outline": Spit out hot phlegm and salivation. Treatment of dizziness, headache, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis, dampness in the head and face.
(5) "Materia Medica": Relieve heart fire, strengthen the spleen and soil, promote dampness and eliminate water, and stop headache and blood.
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(1) Treatment such as Guizhi syndrome: the head is not painful, the neck is not strong, the pulse is slightly floating, the chest is full of ruffians, the breath rushes to the throat, and the person who cannot rest, this is the cold in the chest, and it should be vomited: one point of guati (boiled yellow), one point of red adzuki beans. On the two flavors, each pound and sieve, for the scattered, the co-governance, take the money dagger, with the bean bean together, with the hot soup seven, boiled for dilute, to drain, take the juice and disperse, Wenton to take it, do not vomit, add less, and vomit quickly. ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever" Guatisan)
(2) Treat wind and saliva violently, and lie down: melon pedicle (exposed to extremely dry), no limit on how much, for fine. The amount of disease, each use one or two money daggers: greasy powder one money dagger, mix it with water and half a contract, and fill it. After serving for a long time, saliva comes out of it, or saliva does not come out, contains a piece of granulated sugar, swallows, and saliva comes out. (Materia Medica)
(3) Treat all wind, diaphragm and phlegm, and saliva surge of epilepsy: Guati fried yellow is the end, and the person is adjusted down with a cup of sour shallot water, and vomited. ("The Secret of Living")
(4) Treatment of dysentery, throat wind, cough, rubella, saliva in an emergency: Guati is not limited to how much, fine grinding is the end, a word in the prime of life, under fifteen (years old) and old timidity, in the morning well flower underwater, a meal, containing a piece of sugar, salivating for a long time like water; Salivate and eat porridge for one or two days. If you vomit too much and are very sleepy, swallow the musk soup and stop it. Grind the musk deer with warm water and adjust it down. ("Behind the Experience")
(5) Cure the madness and want to go: Guatimo, take a penny of well water, and vomit. ("Grace of God")
【Note】Those with physical weakness, blood loss and no real evil in the upper part are forbidden to take it. This product is toxic, should not be taken in large quantities, excessive dizziness, abdominal discomfort, vomiting, diarrhea, severe cases can be due to dehydration, electrolyte disorders and eventually circulatory failure and respiratory paralysis and death.
1. "Treatise on Typhoid Fever": "The blood of the dead and the empty family cannot be compared." ”
2. "Supplement to the Derivation of Materia Medica": "Do not use it for those with a weak stomach, and after illness and childbirth, it is advisable to abstain from it." ”
3. "Materia Medica": "It can damage the stomach and hurt the blood, consume the gas and hurt the nerves, where there is no cold in the chest, no food in the stomach, no water in the skin, no dampness in the head and face, and weak stomach and qi, all the blood and postpartum like a stroke and fall down, heart deficiency and heat, epilepsy, female labor and valley dice, vitality and win, spleen deficiency and edema, do not misuse." ”
4. "Materia Medica": "The middle and upper parts are forbidden if there is no real evil." ”
5. "Benjing Fengyuan": "Those who have no heat and phlegm on the diaphragm are forbidden. ”
6. "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": "Avoid taking a large amount to avoid poisoning." ”
7. "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine": "People with heart disease should not use it. ”
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