The story of Compendium of Materia Medica: Bletilla striata, the holy medicine of blood clan

Compendium of Materia Medica Volume 12 —— Bletilla striata, the holy medicine of blood clan

According to the confession, Mai Yijian said: Taizhou prison guards pity a big prisoner. I feel guilty. Truth: I committed the death penalty seven times, was interrogated and suffered lung damage. As for vomiting blood. People spread the word, only use bletilla striata as the end, and take it with rice every day, which is as effective as God. After the prisoner died in the middle of the year, the executioner cut open his chest and saw dozens of points between his lungs, all of which were bletilla striata with the same color. When Hong Guanzhi heard that he was going to Yangzhou, a soldier suddenly hemoptysis with joy, which was very dangerous. He kept it with this. It can only be kept for one day.

When Li Shizhen introduced Bletilla striata in Compendium of Materia Medica, he told a story in Jane Yizhi written by Hong Mai, a poet of the Song Dynasty: A prisoner on death row was held in Taizhou prison, and the prison officials took good care of him out of pity. The condemned man is very grateful. He knew he would be executed. In return for the care of the prison officer, he gave him a prescription. The condemned man said that I was arrested and imprisoned seven times, and I was tortured repeatedly in prison, and my chest and lungs were injured many times, which led to hematemesis. Someone handed me a prescription, taking rice soup with bletilla striata as the end, which had a miraculous effect in stopping bleeding. Soon, the prisoner was killed, and the executioner cut open his chest and saw that dozens of holes in his lungs were filled with bletilla striata powder. Hong Mai heard the story and wrote a prescription. Later, he went to Yangzhou to do business, and a soldier had hemoptysis, which was very critical, so he was treated with this prescription. After a day of medication, the soldier's hemoptysis was cured.

The story tells that after this man was executed, he dissected his chest and saw that all the holes in his lungs were filled with bletilla striata powder. There are many ancient legends and fairy tales in China, and more abroad. However, long-term clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine has proved that Bletilla striata is effective in treating pulmonary and gastric bleeding.

Bletilla striata is the tuber of Bletilla striata in Orchidaceae. According to the introduction of "Ming Shi" in Compendium of Materia Medica, "its roots are white and continuous, so it is called Lily", also known as Bletilla striata, Gangen, Baigen and Baigei. Bletilla striata is a perennial herb of Orchidaceae, and its underground stems are used as medicine. Bletilla striata, originally wild, mostly grows in the humid areas of Shan Ye Valley and in the central and southern parts of China. Because of the increasing demand for drugs, it is also planted in large quantities. Bletilla striata likes warm climate and should be planted in sandy loam with good drainage. Excavate in August ~165438+1October, remove the residual stalks, wash the soil, cook until there is no white pit inside, knock off the rough skin, and slice and dry for later use.

Bletilla striata, bitter and sweet, cool in nature. Has the effects of tonifying lung, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and healing sore. For treating hemoptysis and epistaxis caused by lung and stomach injury, this product is generally ground separately and mixed with glutinous rice soup. If it is used as powder together with Panax notoginseng (2: 1), the effect will be better. For hemoptysis due to strain, it can be used together with loquat leaf, lotus root node, clam powder and donkey-hide gelatin; For stomachache, pantothenic acid and hematemesis, it can be used with cuttlefish bone.

This product is often used to treat hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis due to bronchiectasis and bleeding due to gastric and duodenal ulcer.

There are many folk remedies and prescriptions about Bletilla striata, which are very effective in clinical application.

1, treating lung flaccidity

Decocting Rhizoma Bletillae, Colla Corii Asini, Flos Farfarae and Radix Asteris with water.

2. Treat hemoptysis

50g of Bletilla striata, 20g of loquat leaves (stir-fried with honey), 20g of lotus root nodes, the file is as big as a bean, the clam powder is fried with beads, the natural juice is mixed with the ground, and the mixture is stewed on fire. Before taking the medicine, it is a pill, such as longan. Take one pill at a time.

3. Treat hematemesis due to lung heat.

Bletilla striata is finely ground, each time 10g, and taken with boiled water. To treat furuncle, 3 grams of Bletilla striata powder is clarified with water, after the water is removed, the thick juice is spread on thick paper and pasted.

4, hand in hand to cure hair backflow

25g of Bletilla striata (baked) and 50g of yellow gelatin (dissolved) are evenly coated on the affected area, one end of the affected area is vented, and the skin of Nitraria tangutorum is attached.

5. Cure all boils and carbuncles.

Bletilla striata, hibiscus leaves, rhubarb, phellodendron amurense and gallnut are used as powder, and the surrounding water is mixed.

6. Treat abscess with wet pus.

25g of Bletilla striata, 20g of Fritillaria, 20g of Coptidis Rhizoma are filed into powder, 9g of Calomelas is put into a mortar, 5g ~ 10g is taken, and the affected part is smeared with clear oil. When in use, the water is boiled with oak powder, and then washed and dried before taking the medicine.

Step 7 treat falls

Wine with Bletilla striata powder, each dose 10g. Treat muscle injury and bleeding caused by knife and axe. Grind Bletilla striata into fine powder and mix with it.

8. Treat soup fire burn

Bletilla striata powder oil dressing. Treatment of chapped hands and feet, terminal bletilla, plug with water, do not urinate.

9. Treating women's uterine prolapse

65438+ 0.3g of Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata and 0.3g of Rhizoma Bletillae, mashed and scattered. Take an inch square of bi (about one gram), wrap it in the shade with cotton, and it will be hot three inches in the belly. Take it once that day, and you need to take it again tomorrow, just to quit.

10, treating sinusitis.

Bletilla striata powder, wine paste pills, each time 15g, yellow wine sent down, half a month to recover.

1 1, for treating heart-qi pain.

5 grams of Bletilla striata and 5 grams of pomegranate peel, respectively, as the powder, refined honey as pills, the size of soybeans, 3 pills each time, with vinegar soup.

Bletilla striata and Radix Aconiti Lateralis (including Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Radix Aconiti Lateralis, and Herba Tianxiong) should not be used together.

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