water caltrop
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It is the pulp of the rhombus, wuling, crownless and lattice of the family of plants.
Harvested in August-September, freshly used or dried. Raw pond in the swamp. There are many cultivations everywhere. It is found south of the Yangtze River.
Also known as Qian, Water Chestnut, Qianshi, Diamond Horn, Water Ling, Sand Horn, Diamond Fruit.
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Annual aquatic herb. Root type II, in addition to the absorbing root, there are assimilated roots; assimilated roots contain chlorophyll, grow from stem nodes, pinnate and finely lobed. The stems are slender and vary in length depending on the depth of the water. The leaves are clustered at the top of the stem, in a rosette-shaped, diamond-shaped triangle, 2.5–4 cm long and 2–4.5 cm wide, with coarse serrations in the upper half of the margins, full margin near the base, green, glabrous on the top, fine hairs on the bottom, and hairy along the veins; petioles are 2.5–5 cm long, hairy or hairless, and have a large, spongy ventricle near the apex. Flower amphoteric, solitary leaf axils; short, hairy, lobed 4; petals 4; stamens 4; ovary semi-inferior, 2 chambers, ovules per chamber 1, peduncle drill-shaped, stigma-headed, flower disc crown-shaped. The fruit is flattened, inverted triangular with spines at both ends, a distance of 3–4 cm between the spines, and a sepal lobe on the ventral dorsal area falls off. A seed. Flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is from September to October.
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National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Sweet, astringent, flat.
Stomach anti-diarrhea, anti-cancer. It is used for stomach ulcers, dysentery, esophageal cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer.
Dictionary of Chinese Medicine
Fresh is sweet and cool, ripe is sweet.
into the intestines and stomach.
Raw food: relieve heat in the summer, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; cooked food: yi qi, healthy spleen.
《Materia Medica Sutra》
Sweet and cold, in the summer, more food damage yang qi makes people bloated, take warm ginger wine to solve.
《Chinese Materia Medica》
Sweet; sexually cool. Healthy spleen and stomach; eliminate annoyance and thirst; detoxification. The main spleen is weak and diarrhea; the summer heat is thirsty; excessive drinking; dysentery
《Materia Medica》
Commonly known as Diamond Horn, a qian
Diarrhea, relieves heat, quenches thirst
Ganhan. Calm down the heat, quench thirst and quench wine. There are two corners, triangles, four corners, and old and tender special (the "Wuling Chronicle" takes the triangle and four corners as the stilt, and the two corners as the ling. Rhombus flowers turn with the moon, and the sunflowers turn to the sun)
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Attribution to the spleen; stomach meridians.
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Decoction 9-15 g, large doses can be used up to 60 g; or raw food. Refreshing heat, eliminating thirst, it is suitable for raw use; tonify the spleen and stomach, it should be cooked.
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Do not eat malaria or diarrhea.
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Rhombus stalk external treatment of skin multiple warts; rhombus shell ash external treatment of yellow water sores, hemorrhoids.