What Is Psoralea Corylifolia?

Psoralea (scientific name: Psoralea corylifolia Linn.) Also known as: broken paper, Po solid fat, Hu Chives. It belongs to Rosacea, a legume annual upright herb, 60 ~ 150cm tall. The leaves are single leaves, 7 ~ 8mm in length; the petioles are 2 ~ 4.5cm in length, the leaves are ovate, the inflorescences are axillary, there are 10 ~ 30 flowers, the corolla is yellow or blue, the petals are obviously petiolate, the flag petals are obovate, and the pod eggs Shaped, flowers and fruits from July to October.

Annual erect herbs, 60-150 cm tall. Branches are hard, sparsely white tomentose, with obvious glandular spots. The leaves are single leaves, sometimes with 1 lateral leaflet about 1-2 cm long; stipules sickle-shaped, 7-8 mm long; petiole 2-4.5 cm long, with glandular points; petiole long 2-3 mm, White tomentose; leaves broadly ovate, 4.5-9 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, apex obtuse or sharp, base rounded or heart-shaped, with coarse irregular jagged edges, tough texture, and obvious black on both sides Glandular, sparsely or nearly glabrous.

It likes a warm and humid climate, and it should be a flat and sunny environment. Although it likes to be wet at the seedling stage, it should not be flooded. ^[1]

Produced in Yunnan (Xishuangbanna), Sichuan Jinsha River Valley. It often grows on hillsides, streams, and fields; Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces have cultivated. India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka are also distributed. ^[1]

The seeds are used as medicine to nourish the kidney and impotence, tonify the spleen and stomach, and to treat skin diseases such as psoriasis; Vietnam uses its alcohol extract to treat rheumatism. ^[1]

Medicine: bitter, astringent, warm. Return to kidney and spleen. ^[6]

efficacy

Bushen impotence, Gujing contraction, kidney deficiency and low back pain, frequency of urination, pediatric enuresis, kidney leakage, warming the spleen and stopping diarrhea, asthma and asthma. ^[7]

Attending

1. It is used to treat impotence due to kidney deficiency, soft and cold pain in waist and knees, nocturnal emission of kidney deficiency, enuresis, and frequent urination.

2. For the treatment of five more diarrhea caused by spleen and kidney yang deficiency.

3. It is used to treat kidney cold and asthma. ^[8]

Common formula

1. For spleen and kidney weakness, do not eat at all: psoralen 120 grams (fried fragrant), nutmeg 60 grams (raw). For the finely divided, use forty-nine fat dates, 120 grams of ginger, boil the slices together, rot the dates, remove the ginger, peel the skin and skin with jujube, grind it into a paste, use medicine and pestle, and use a pill like a sycamore. Thirty pills per serving, under salt soup. ("Competent Party" Nijinmaru)

2. Treatment of red-white scallion and watery diarrhea: one or two psoralens (sautéed and cooked), four or two poppy shells (to simmer, top pedicure, dry on the new tile). On the second taste, it is fine, refined honey is as big as a pellet. For each pill, one cup of water is melted, two slices of ginger and one jujube are fried for seven minutes, such as children divided into four. ("One Hundred Elections")

3. Treatment of enuresis in children: one or two psoralens (fried). For the end, with each serving, the hot soup is adjusted down. ("Bu Yao Pocket Children's Fangluo" broken paper scattered)

4. Treating men and women with five labors and seven injuries, Xia Yuanjiu cold, black mustache, all wind sickness, pain in the limbs, staying strong and strong: a pound of psoralen, soaked in wine for a night, let dry, but use linseed one liter and Stir-fry, so that the sound of Mazi will go away, just take psoralen as the end, vinegar cooked batter pills like Wuzi. In the morning warm wine, salt soup under twenty pills. ("After the Experience")

5. The Yuan was defeated, the feet were heavy, and night sweats were common. This medicine strengthens the bones and strengthens the vitality: psoralen forty-two (fried fragrant), Cuscuta forty-two (steamed with wine), walnut flesh for one or two (peeled), frankincense, myrrh, and agarwood (each research) three and a half money. Refining honey pill is as big as Wuzi. Each serving of twenty or thirty pills, served with hollow salt soup warm wine, from the summer solstice to the winter solstice, a day. ("Fufang" Bu Gu Zhi Pills)

6. Centering and kidney-reinforcing: two or two psoralens (separated by paper to make them fragrant), one or two white poria (peeled). The upper second taste is fine, half with two myrrh, smashed, immersed in ashless wine, high myrrh is one sign, waiting like thick scum, search the first two taste, the pill is as big as sycamore. Take three or fifty pills per serving, and then take the soup; if there is no medicine, dry and difficult pills, take the same pills with less alcohol paste and take it before eating. ("Weishi Family Tibetan Recipe" Huijing Wan)

7. Treatment of kidney qi deficiency and coldness, excessive urination: psoralen (salt fried), fennel (salt fried). It is finely divided into fines, and the mash is pill-like. Fifty or one hundred pills per serving, hollow warm wine, salt soup. ("Wei Family's Tibetan Prescription" broken old paper pills)

8. Treatment of falling back pain, blood stasis: broken paper (fried), fennel (fried), spicy cinnamon. For the end, two dollars for each hot wine service. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")

9. Treatment of back pain: broken paper is the last, warm wine under three money dagger. ("After the Experience")

10. Relieve kidney qi weakness, take advantage of wind cooling; or blood pressure, low back pain, difficult sit-ups, unfavorable pitching, unable to turn to the side; or excessive labor, hurt the kidney meridian; Or fall and damage, or cold and cold, or Qi stagnation, all cause back pain; or if there is something falling on the waist, those who have difficulty sitting up, can cure: 20 walnuts (peeled film), garlic ( Boil the ointment) forty-two, psoralen (sprinkled with stir-fried) eighty-two, eucommia (peeled, stir-fried with ginger) sixteen-two. It is finely divided, and garlic cream is a pill. Thirty pills per serving, under warm wine; women under vinegar soup. Often wear strong muscles, blood circulation, black mustache, and benefit color. ("The Bureau" Qing'e Pill)

11. Treatment of low back pain during pregnancy, unbearable symptoms: not much psoralen, stir-fried on the tile, as the last, chew walnut meat, hollowed wine to adjust three money. (The Typhoid Fever Collection) Tongqi San] ^[9]

Precautions

1. Yin Huowang who avoid.

2. "Ben Cao Jing Shu": all diseases of Yin deficiency and fire, dreams, blood in the urine, short urination and dry mouth, dry stools, thirst inside, thirsty fire, red eyes, hunger and noisy, hot and humid, causing bone fatigue Those who are powerless should not be served.

3. "Must be Compiled with Materia Medica": Yin deficiency subsidence, internal heat and thirst, dizziness and qi deficiency, pregnant heart and heart heat, and those with feces will be disabled.