Patchouli alias: mint, fennel, water chestnut leaf.
Taste: pungent, slightly warm.
Meridian tropism: spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
Patchouli alias: mint, fennel, water chestnut leaf.
Taste: pungent, slightly warm.
Meridian tropism: spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
Patchouli alias: mint, fennel, water chestnut leaf.
Taste: pungent, slightly warm.
Meridian tropism: spleen, stomach and lung meridians.
Medicinal parts: aerial parts of plants.
Morphological characteristics: the whole plant is 30-60cm long, with many branches and slightly curved branches. The stem is a blunt square column with a diameter of about 2-7mm and an internode length of 3- 13 cm. The skin is grayish brown, grayish yellow or reddish brown; Brittle, easily broken, with marrow in the center of the section; The old stem at the base is cylindrical. Diameter 1- 1.2cm, brown cork. The leaves are opposite and shrink into a ball. The flattened leaves are ovoid or ovoid, 4-9 cm long and 3-7 cm wide. Both sides are covered with gray hairs; The tip is short or blunt, the base is wedge-shaped or blunt, and the edge has blunt teeth with irregular size; Petiole 2-4 cm long, pilose. Unique smell, slightly bitter leaves.
Oral administration and dosage of Pogostemon cablin: decoction, 5- 10g, rarely used twice, and should not be taken for a long time; Or put into pill powder.
External use: appropriate amount, taken with decoction or soaked in the affected area; Or polished and trimmed.
Processing: remove residual roots and impurities, first shake the leaves, sieve them and put them away; Wash the stem, fully wet it, cut it into sections, dry it in the sun, and then mix it with the leaves.
Pogostemon cablin efficacy: aromatic turbidity, anti-vomiting, relieving summer heat.
Indications: It can be used for obstruction of collaterals by dampness, epigastric pain, exterior syndrome of summer-heat dampness, attack of dampness and temperature, fever and fatigue, chest distress, obstruction of summer-heat by cold and dampness, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and nasal headache.
People with yin deficiency should not use patchouli.
The prescription of Pogostemon cablin is 1. It can be used equally with Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Talcum and Herba Artemisiae Scopariae to treat exterior syndrome of summer-heat dampness, or initial onset of dampness and temperature, with equal emphasis on dampness and temperature, fever, fatigue and chest distress. (Warm Jingwei)
2. Treating abdominal distension, nausea, mental fatigue and physical fatigue caused by dampness and turbidity: it is often used with Banxia and Lilac. ("Hutchison's Prescription")
Pogostemon cablin 1, don't record related discussions: treating feng shui toxic swelling, eliminating pathogenic factors, and treating cholera heartache.
2, "Materia Medica Meets the Original": Pogostemon cablin began in Taiyin. Aromatic qi helps the spleen to wake up the stomach, so it can stop vomiting and stimulate appetite. Warming the middle warmer, activating qi, eliminating miasma, stopping cholera and treating heart and abdominal pain. Whenever plague and malaria occur in Shan Lan, if you use it to strengthen the spleen and stomach, evil spirits will heal themselves.