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Pinyin Jiǔ Zǐ
Alias leek seed ("Yunnan Materia Medica"), leek kernel ("Lingnan Medicine Record").
Source:Notes on the Collected Works of Materia Medica
The source is the seeds of the lily family leek. Harvested when the autumn fruit is ripe, the fruit is plucked, dried, the seeds are rubbed out, and the peel and impurities are dusted.
The Habitat Division is produced throughout the country. Hebei, Shanxi, Jilin, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Henan and other places have a larger output.
Trait dried seeds are oblate ovoid or triangular flat oval, one face or slightly concave, one side slightly raised, blunt at the apex, slightly pointed at the base, 3 to 4 mm long and 2 to 3 mm wide. The surface is black with irregular mesh wrinkles. There is a kind of umbilicus at the base, protruding, gray-brown. The longitudinal section is visible under a magnifier that the seed coat is thin, wrinkled, embryonic white, curved, and endosperm off-white. Hard. The gas is peculiar, the taste is spicy, and the chew has a leek flavor. It is preferable to be black, full and free of impurities.
The seeds of the chemical ingredient leek contain alkaloids and saponins.
Prepared and washed, dried, raw or stir-fried.
"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Pick it up, steam it, dry it violently, dust off the black skin, and fry it yellow." "
Sexual taste (1) "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Temperamental warmth, spicy and salty taste." "
(2) "Outline": "Xingan, Warm, non-toxic." "
Guijing (1) "Outline": "Enter the Yin Sutra of the Foot." "
(2) "Materia Medica": "Enter the foot yin and the less yin meridian." "
Functional indications for liver and kidney tonic, warm waist and knees, aphrodisiac and sperm. Cure impotence dream remains, frequent urination, enuresis, waist and knee soreness and cold pain, diarrhea, belt down, drenching.
(1) "Don't Record": "The main dream is ejaculated, drowning white (a drowning blood)." "
(2) "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Warm your waist and knees." "
(3) "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Tonify liver and kidneys, warm waist and knees, Xingyang Dao." Cure impotence. "
(4) "Outline": "Liver replenishment and life gate." Cure frequent urination, enuresis, women with white vaginal discharge. "
(5) "Materia Medica": "Through the turbidity, it is good for small water." "
(6) "Materia Medica": "The woman is cold and has less abdominal pain." "
(7) Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": "At the end of the study, the treatment of white diarrhea is mixed with white sugar, the black sugar of red diarrhea is mixed, and the chen rice is drunk." "
(8) "Materia Medica Renewed": "Cure the pain of the muscles and bones, under the red and white belt." "
(9) "Lingnan Medicine Collection Record": "Suffering from the nose, burning smoke." Internal administration can dissipate bruises and bruises. "
(10) "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Cure hernia pain." "
Dosage for internal use: decoction, 1 to 3 dollars; or into pills, loose.
Pay attention to the yin deficiency fire vigorous people do not use.
Compound (1) treatment of fatigue urine: two liters of leeks, three liters of rice. On the second taste, boiled like porridge with a bucket of water and seven liters. Take six liters of juice for three servings. (A Thousand Golden Fangs)
(2) Cure kidney and bladder deficiency, true qi is not solid, urine slip number: leek four two, fennel on the sternum (fried), bone fat (fried), nootropic kernel, deer antler cream, white keel three two (calcined, do not study fine as powder). The top is finely minced, with green salt, deer horn gum one or two each, and boiled wine paste as a pill, such as kiriko large. Fifty pills per serving, hollow warm wine sent down, salt soup also get. ("Wei Family Collection")
(3) Cure waist and foot weakness: one liter of leeks (pick clean, steam two cooking for a long time, expose dry, dust off the black skin, fry yellow, pound powder), benzoin two big two (boiled one, two hundred boiling, slow stir-fried red). And mashed into pills, sycamore large, such as dry, into less honey. Take 30 pills of wine on an empty stomach every day, and press them with 3 or 5 spoonfuls of rice. ("The Sea Collection")
(4) Cure the woman's belt down and the man's kidney weakness and coldness, dream will remain: seven liters of leeks. Vinegar boiled thousand boiling, roasting, grinding, refining honey pills, Wuzi large, thirty pills per serving, hollow warm wine. (A Thousand Golden Fangs)
(5) Cure the jade stem is tough and not impotent, the essence cannot flow, it is like a needle prick, pinching it is painful, its disease is strong, it is a kidney stagnation and leakage disease: leeks, broken paper one or two each. at the end. Three dollars per serving, one lamp of water, fried serving, three days. ("Empirical Side")
(6) Smoked insect teeth: tiles calcined red, a few leeks, a few points of oil, wait for the smoke to rise, suck in the barrel, lead to the sore. For a long time, gargle with warm water. ("Emergency Rescue")
[Famous Scholars' Discourse] (1) "Outline": "Leeks are the vegetables of the liver, the kidneys are mainly closed, and the liver is mainly sulfur." "Su Qing" said, foot yin disease is enuresis, endless thoughts, into the room is too much, hair is paralyzed, and for white obscenity, men go down with the fish, women go down. Leeks are mainly used to treat sperm leakage, frequent urination, and women who take them down can enter the yin and make up for the lack of scorched liver and life. The one who lives the door hides the house of the essence, so tongzhiyun. "
(2) "This Sutra Fengyuan": "Leeks, but the kidney qi is overworked, it is advisable to take the shooter, if the yin is weak and the fire is strong and the yang is not handed over, and the single yin is misused, it is a salary to save the burning." The function of the leek is all in Xin Wen, the son is refined, and the strong fire is blazing, which is a geji. Today's people smoke caries worms with leeks, but they can hurt bones and bad teeth, and they must not know. "
Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine
