CHINESE FOOD

Origin

Mulberry Fruitis dried fruit-spike of Moras alba L.The drug is collecte in April to Jun when the fruit truns red, dried in the sun, or dried after steaming briefly.

Description and Identification

Collective fruit,aggregated by many small achenes,fruit-spike oblong, 1 ~ 2cm long,5 ~ 8mm in diameter. Yellowish-brown,brownish-red to dark purple,with a short fruit stalk. Achene ovoid, slightly flattened, about 2mm long and 1mm wide, with 4 fleshy perianthsegments. Odour, slightly; slightly sour and sweet in taste.

Chemical Ingredients

Sugar,tannic acid,malic acid,vitamin B1\B2, and carotene,etc.

Property and Channel Tropism

Property: sweet and acerbity in taste, cold in nature.
Channel tropism: heart, liver, kidney.

Action and Indications

To nourish yin and blood and promote the production of body fluid.
Vertigo and tinnitus, palpitation, insomnia, premature greying of hair and beard; thirst due to impairment of body fluid; diabetes caused by internal heat;constipation due to deficiency of blood.

Place of Production

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, etc.

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Origin

Siberian Solomonseal Rhizome is the dried rhizome of Polygonatum kingianum Coll.et Hemsl., Polygonatum sibiricum Red. or Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua. According to shape, these are commonly known as ” Dahuangjing” , ” Jitouhuangjing” , and ” Jiangxinghuangjing” . The drug is collected in spring and autumn,removed from the fibrous root,washed clean,blanched in boiling water or steamed to soften, and dried.

Description and Identification

Dahuangjing: Freshy tuberculated,up to more than 10cm long, 3 ~ 6cm wide,2 ~ 3cm thick. Externallt pale yellow to yelloish-brown,with ring-shaped nodes,striatums and fibrous toot scars, the upper part od modes showing lateral stem scars orbiculate with sunken circumference and prominent in centre. Texture hard and tenacious,uneasily broken,francture horny,pale yellow to yellowish-brown. Odour, slight; taste, sweet, and viscous on chewing.

Jitouhuangjiang: Tubercles curved and cylindrical,3 ~ 10cm long,0.5 ~ 1.5cm diameter. Node 2 ~4cm long,somewhtat concial,often branched; externally yellowish-white or greyish-white, ranslucent with longitudinal wrinkles, round stem scars 5 ~ 8mm in diameter.

Jiangxinhuangjing: Elongated tubercles,varying in length,often connected in groups of several tubercles. Externally greyish-yellow or yellowish-brown, rough, bearing prominent and orbiculate stem scars on the upper part of nodes ,0.8-1.5cm in diameter.

Not to be used as a drug if it tastes bitter.

Chemical Ingredients

It has steroidal saponins such as sibiricoside A, 14 a -hydroxysibiricoside A.

Property and Channel Tropism

Property: sweet in taste, neutral in nature.
Channel tropism: spleen, lung, kidney.

Action and Indications

To reinforce qi and nourish yin, to invigorate the function of the spleen, to moisten the lung, and to benefit the kidney.

Weakness of the spleen and the stomach marked by lassitude, dryness in the mouth nad anorexia; dry cough due to deficiency of yin of then lung; deficiency of vital essence and blood; diabetes caused by internal heat.

Place of Production

Polygonatum kingianum Coll.et Hemsl.: Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou Province Polygonatum sibiricum Red.: Hebei, Neimenggu, shaan xi province. Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua.: Anhui, Hunan, Guizhou Province, etc.

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Origin
Black sesame is the dried ripe seed of Sesamum indicum L.The plant is collected in autumn when the fruit is ripe, dried in the sun. The drug is gathered, removed from foreign matter, and dried in the sun.

Description and Identification
Flattened-ovoid, about 3mm long, and 2mm wide. Externally black,smooth or reticulately wrinkled. A dotted brown raphe at the apex. Testa thin,cotyledons 2,white,oily. Odour weak; taste sweet, slightly oily,aromatic.

Chemical Ingredients
It mosdy has fattiness oil, including oleic acid, linoleic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid. In addition, it also has pedaliin, protein, lecithin, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism
Property: sweet in taste; neutral in nature.
Channel tropism: liver,kidney,large intestine.

Action and Indications
To tonify the liver and the kidney, to replenish vital essence and blood, and to relax the bowels. Dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, impaired hearing, premature greying of the hair and beard; loss of hair after a serious disease; constipation.

Place of Production
It is produced in Shangdong, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hebei, etc.

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Origin

Wolfberry Fruit is dried ripe fruit of Lycium barbarum L.The drug is collected in summer and autumn when the fruit turns orange-red. After drying in the shade to make the pericarp shrunken, the drug is exposed to strong sunlight until the exocarp is dried and hard, and the pulp soft, the fruit stalk is then removed.

Description and Identification

Subfusiform, slightly flattened, 6 ~ 18mm long, 3 ~ 8mm in diameter. Externally scarlet of dark red, marked with a protrudent style sear at the apex, and a white fruit stalk scar at the base. Pericarp pliable and shrunken,sarcocarp fleshy,soft and viscous. Seeds flat and reniform. Odourless; taste, sweet and slightly sour.

Chemical Ingredients

7.09% amylose; lycine, atropine,hyoscyamine, zeaxanthin, physalien, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism

Property : sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Channel tropism: liver, kidney.

Action and Indications

To benefit the liver and the kidney, to replenish vital essence and to improve eyesight. General debility with deficiency of vital essence manifested by aching of the loins and knees, dizziness and tinnitus; diabetes caused by internal heat; anemia; impaired vision.

Place of Production

Ning xia is the main place of production. Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu and Shan’xi also produce Gou qi.

Recipes of Medicated Diet

1. Yi Shou Yin Er Tang (Tremella Soup)
[ Ingedients]
15g tremella
15g gou qi zi, wolfberry fruit ( Fructus Lycii )
15g long yan rou, longan aril ( Arillus Longan )
150g crystal sugar

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Origin

Glehnia Root is the dried root of Glehnia littoralis Fr. Schmidt ex Miq. The drug is collected in summer and autumn,removed from rootlet, washed clean,dried slightly in the air,treated with boiling water, peeled and dried, or dried immediatley directly after washing.

Description and Identification

Slenderly cylindrical,branching occassionally, 15 ~ 45cm long,0.4 ~ 1.2cm in diameter. Externally yellowish-white,slightly rough, occasionally with patches of cork adhering,or yellowish-brown when unpeeled,finely wrinkled longitudinally,and with brownish-yellow spotted rootlet scars. Top usually with yellowish-brown remains of rhizome. The upper part somewhat thin,the middle part relatively thick,and the lower part gradually tapering. Texture fragile,easily broken, fracture yellowish-white in bark and yellow in wood. Odour characteristic; taste .sweetish.

Chemical Ingredients

It has many kinds of coumarin genre compounds, including psoralen, bergapten, and xanthotoxin. And it also has amy lose, phospholipid, etc.

Property and Channel Tropism

Property: sweet and slightly bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature. Channel tropism: lung, stomach.

Action and Indications

To replenish yin of the lung and stomach, remove heat from the lung, and promote fluid secretion. Dry cough caused by heat in the lung; bloody sputum in phthisis; thirst in febrile diseases.

Precaution

Incompatible with Rhizoma et Radix Veratri.

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