Alias wicker ("mining"), wicker ("knowing Cao").
The source is the branches of weeping willows in Salicaceae. It can be recovered all year round.
Original shape
Weeping willows, also known as: Xiao Yang (Shuo Wen), Liu (Herbal Supplement), Qing Liu (Seeking the Grassland), Walking Willow, Hanging Willow (Convenient Grass), Water Willow and Qingming Willow.
Deciduous trees, height10 ~12m. There are long drooping branches, and the branchlets are brown and hairless, and they are slightly hairy when they are young. The leaves are lanceolate to linear lanceolate, 9~ 16 cm long and 5~ 15 mm wide, the top is tapered, the base is wedge-shaped, the edge is serrated, the top is green, the bottom is white, and the lateral veins 15~30 pairs; The petiole is 6~ 12 mm long. Flowers are unisexual and dioecious; | The first leaf of catkin inflorescence opens or opens at the same time with the leaves; Racemes pubescent; Male inflorescence is 1.5~2 cm long, and female inflorescence is 5 cm long. Bracts rounded to linear-lanceolate, caducous; The male flower has 2 glands, 2 stamens, separated and villous at the base; The female flower has glands, the ovary is hairless, sessile, the style is extremely short, and the stigma is 2-lobed. Capsule 3~4 mm long, brownish green, 2-lobed at maturity. The seeds have fluff. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruiting period is April-May.
Habitat distribution is born in waterside wetlands. Distributed in the Yangtze River basin and all parts of South China.
Chemical composition: Xylem contains salicin containing water.
Pharmacological action salicin can be hydrolyzed into salicin and glucose by boiling with dilute hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid. Salicyloside can be used as a bittering agent (locally acting on the stomach), and part of it becomes salicylic acid (antipyretic and analgesic) after absorption, and then it is rapidly hydrolyzed. Because the conversion degree of salicin to salicylic acid is not constant, the former can not be used to replace the latter in clinic. The concentration of salicylaglycone 4~ 10% can be used for local anesthesia and is almost non-toxic.
Sexual taste
Bitter and cold.
① Tang dynasty herbs: bitter, cold and non-toxic.
(2) The Picture of Southern Yunnan Materia Medica: It tastes bitter and bitter.
Meridian tropism: entering Yangming Meridian and Jueyin Meridian.
Functional indication
Expelling pathogenic wind, promoting diuresis, relieving pain and reducing swelling. Treat rheumatic arthralgia, gonorrhea, turbid urine, dysuria, infectious hepatitis, wind swelling, furuncle, erysipelas, dental caries, and gingival swelling and pain.
(1) Materia Medica: Treating children's cold and fever, boiling willow branches and bathing for five days a day.
2 "Japanese Herbal Medicine": digestible.
③ "Illustration of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Indications are coagulation and qi stagnation, and wind-cold external bundle; For children with acne, aconite is trapped in it, so the pulp can't rise, and it can't be decocted or bathed.
4 "Outline": decoction, treating jaundice and white turbidity; Boiling and scalding with wine can reduce swelling, dispel wind, relieve pain and reduce swelling.
⑤ "Depei Herbal Medicine": expelling wind and heat, removing dampness and arthralgia.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 1~2. External use: decoct in water, rinse or fumigate.
Additional prescription
① Treatment of turbid urine: holding willow branches and licorice San Qian. Make soup to drink. (Behind the elbow)
(2) Treating infantile fetal fire without urine: willow branches, which are dry, are decocted. (Ji) According to
③ Treatment of urinary stalk: There are many withered willows (branches). Break the decoction, pour it into a bucket, enclose it and smoke it. Take it orally again. (Compendium)
4 treatment of jaundice: three liters of willow branches. Take a bucket of water and boil the thick juice, and take half a liter at a time. ("Outside Taiwan Province")
⑤ Treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis: Add water 1000ml to tender willow branches within one inch, and decoct them to 200ml, once a day, and take them twice. (Selected Prescriptions of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Xinjiang)
⑥ Treatment of furuncle and anti-flower sore: Fried willow branches and leaves as ointment. ("Alone")
⑦ Treatment of sores and swelling: burning smoke and fumigating water in willow branches and altar. (Picking Fiona Fang)
⑧ Treating the swelling and pain of the yin pawn: three feet of willow branches, 20 pieces. Fine file, boiled in water is extremely hot, so the swollen place is wrapped in silk, or washed with hot soup. ("Thousands of Monks Explore Wonders")
Pet-name ruby cure jujube erysipelas, from the back: with willow ash water. ("Outside Taiwan Province")
Indications: one liter of willow branch (file) and one liter of soybean. Stir-fried, bean cannon, filled in porcelain, that is, stained with three liters of wine. After three days, I vomited frequently in Taiwan Province. (Ancient and Modern Records and Prescriptions)
⑾ Treatment of tooth swelling and even ear swelling and pain: hold weeping willow branches, white bark of Sophora japonica and white bark of poplar respectively. Apply the medicine in fine grades, use half water each time, fry until it is seven minutes cooked, take me out, add one yuan of salt, stir well, and vomit hot and cold. Sheng Huifang Liu Zhi Tang) >>
Question 2: What's the use of willow? Willow is a good greening tree species. It is famous for its strong adaptability and fast growth. Its wood is mostly used in construction, transportation and other industries.
Question 3: What can willow branches do? Thousands of green silk threads hang down. Wow, many faces, many fans.
Question 4: What can willow cotton do? Willow has many uses. Willow buds are rich in protein. After drying, it can be fried and eaten, or it can be made into tea. The tea color of willow bud is like green spring, fragrant and delicious, and it has the function of preventing and treating diseases after long-term drinking. Catkin can be used as pillow core and insole. Because it is soft and cool, making pillow core can help people with insomnia fall asleep gradually. Willow leaf, willow bark and willow root can all be used as medicine, which can eliminate phlegm, improve eyesight, clear heat and prevent wind. In summer, willows can be shaded and watched, and branches can be woven into strong baskets. Trunk can be made into smooth furniture. It's not big, but it's hard. Furniture made of wicker trunks is not only hard, but also difficult to crack and deform. Beautify the environment and purify the air.
Question 5: I can still imagine what Yangliu is doing. Stems such as camphor tree and willow tree are called woody stems, and stems such as green bristlegrass and clover are called grass stems.
Question 6: Can willow leaves and willows know what to do and eat without saying hello? How can you eat some traditional Chinese medicine such as leaves and liver to clear away heat and detoxify?
Question 7: What are willows like? What is it doing? Liu has many sayings in ancient and modern times: 1, and Liu has the meaning of farewell because of his "staying". The legend of willow is one of the four ancient ghost trees, and there is a superstition of gathering ghosts. 3. Willow has a saying of praising women's femininity. 4. Willow is a positive tree species, which is mostly used by the people to ward off evil spirits and attract wind. 5. Willow is in Quancheng, and trees, springs and people are in harmony. Known as "every family has a clear spring, and every household hangs a willow".
A foreigner friend told me that willow trees have the feeling that women are crying in their place, so Hua Yu said: You are gentle, romantic and a little unrealistic, and you like to pursue Platonic love.
Question 8: What can rotten willow do? Flowers can be cultivated in wood and soil, such as chlorophytum, leafy orchid, Dendrobium and orchid can be planted in bark.