Snowflakes fluttered and danced softly, and today's Tianjin has snowed heavily, like a very smallpox falling from the sky. The Chinese medicine that should be said in response to this scene is smallpox pollen, and everyone may not be familiar with it, but when it comes to melon, everyone will not be unfamiliar, and they both belong to the same plant.
Chestnut Tower
Smallpox pollen is the dried rhizome of the Cucurbitaceae plant Chestnut or Bilateral Chestnut. Produced in many parts of the country, the best quality of those produced in Anyang, Henan, is excavated in autumn and winter, fresh or dried!
You may wonder why this medicine is called smallpox pollen?! Smallpox pollen is really called Lilou root, during the Tang and Song dynasties, more water was added to the milling and filtering after the powder was put into medicine, so it was renamed smallpox pollen. At present, it is completely directly into the medicine with the root of the block, and there is no meaning of smallpox pollen.
Smallpox pollen
Smallpox pollen tastes sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold. Return to the lung meridian and stomach meridian!
Like the reed root mentioned in the previous article, it also has a heat and diarrhea, and quenches thirst, but the difference is that it can also reduce swelling and discharge pus!
Because this product has a sweet and cold nature, and into the lungs and stomach meridian, it can diarrhea the real fire of the lung and stomach two meridians, and quench thirst, and is more used to treat some fever and thirst.
We usually cough on the fire, we all know to come to some wheat winter, raw land, now you can also add smallpox pollen, to clear the lung heat, moisturize the lungs, while matching the Heavenly Gate Winter, orange stem, etc. have a good effect on dry cough and less phlegm!
One of the effects of smallpox pollen is to nourish the yin, often with reed root, ginseng and other treatment of qi and yin caused by the internal heat and thirst, such as the famous jade pot pills! It is also a common remedy for diabetes!
In addition to the above functions, smallpox pollen also has the effect of clearing heat and diarrhea to detoxify, reduce swelling and drain pus to heal sores, and is compatible with honeysuckle, baizhi, pangolin and other compatible composition (xianfang life drink) to treat sores and swelling poison has a good effect!
The "Eighteen Antis" clearly stipulates that smallpox pollen, like melons, cannot be used with aconitum and appendages to avoid toxic side effects.
This product is due to bitter cold and greasy, and all those who have a weak spleen and stomach and slippery stool should be contraindicated.
Smallpox pollen should not be used in excess, otherwise it will have a certain toxic effect on the liver, kidneys and heart!
Abstract of Ancient Texts: 1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Chestnut root, sweet and slightly bitter, acid can produce jin, so it can quench thirst and run, slightly bitter to reduce fire, sweet does not hurt the stomach, the past people only said its bitter cold, it seems not to be deeply observed." ” 2. The Shennong Materia Medica: "The Lord quenches thirst, is hot, is full of heat, replenishes weakness, is at ease, and continues to be injured."
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