The characteristics of medicinal materials are that the flowers are 5 ~ 8 cm long, shrink when they are dry, are irregular blocks, and most of them have no ovaries and pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 2.5 ~ 4 cm long, 2 ~ 3 cm in diameter, with 3 ~ 5 cracks at the top, thick leathery, very brittle, brown and black in appearance, with longitudinal wrinkles, and grayish yellow short fluff inside. 5 petals, shriveled or broken, with brown or dark brown face, stellate hair, reddish brown inside and less stellate hair; Stamens are numerous, arranged in multiple rows, connate at the base, and anthers are kidney-shaped. Slight breath, light and sweet taste. It is best to have large and complete flowers, and the color is brown.
Taste and function are light, astringent and flat. Clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxicating. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, bloody collapse and sore poison. The usual dosage is 5 ~ 10g.
Note: The bark of kapok is used as medicine in Guangdong, which is called Guangdong Pittosporum bark. Bitter in taste and flat in nature, it has the effect of expelling wind and dampness.
Function: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Used for diarrhea, dysentery, bloody collapse and sore poison.
Taste: light, astringent and flat.
Various exhibitions
1. Essentials of Raw Medicinal Materials: White is better for dysentery.
2. "Seeking the Original Grass": Red people go to red dysentery, white people treat white dysentery, and often drink with Wuyi tea.
3. "Lingnan Materia Medica Collection": Summer.
4. "New Edition of Traditional Chinese Medicine": diuretic and stomach-strengthening.
5. Nanning pharmacology: eliminating damp heat. Treatment of bloody collapse, gold wound.
6. Records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: Eliminating dampness and detoxifying, and treating malignant sores.
7. Handbook of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Guangzhou army: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, treating enteritis and bacillary dysentery.
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