[Flutter every week] Earth skin: clearing heat and dampness, removing wind and itching

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Ground skin

Started in "Shennong Materia Medica"

"Tender seedlings can be used as vegetables, and they can be used as brooms."

Earth skin, alias: Di Ai, Di Mai, Berberry, Sweeping Sweep, Borne, Thousands of Heads, Broken Cai Zi, Iron Steak, Berberry. The mature fruits of the ground skin of the terminus. A year of herb, about 50-150cm high. Stems stand upright, with many branches, pale green or light red, with short pour.

Started in the "Shennong Materia Medica", it was listed as the top grade, and the grass of all ages was recorded. Li Shizhen said: "Earth skin and tender seedlings can be used as vegetables, dozens of subjects, and the clusters are straight up, and the sex is the most weak. Therefore, it can be used as a broom and durable."

The plant can be made of brooms after drying, so it is also called broom grass. The fruit is used as "ground skin".

This product is a flat spherical pentagonal shape with a diameter of 1-3mm in diameter. The surface is gray-green or light brown, and there are protruding point-shaped stem marks and radial pulse lines in the center of the back. No smell, slightly bitter. Full, color gray green is better.

Medicinal value

Efficacy: clearing heat and dampness, removing wind and itching.

Indications: unfavorable urination; drizzling; lower; blood diarrhea; rubella; eczema; tinea; itchy skin; sore poison.

Modern studies have shown that ground skin has a bacteriostatic and allergic effect.

Recommended meal

Anti -itching winter melon soup

Material:

50 grams of ground skin, 500 grams of winter melon, peppercorns, salt, shallots, ginger each in moderation.

practice:

Wash the winter melon and cut it into a square; the ground skin cloth bag, add the appropriate amount of water, cook until cooked; add a little salt, ginger, shallots, peppercorns (with lightness); take out the medicine bag and drink.

Usage: Eat melon and soup, once a day.

Clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and throat, have anti -pathogenic microorganisms, internal toxins, and improve the body's immune function.

Supply: Chinese medicine room Yuan Shihang

Edit: Propaganda Division

Preliminary review: Zhang Yuanmin

Final trial: Wu Zhongming

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