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chou cao 臭草

 

Edited by: Joe Hing kwok Chu

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Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名﹕

Herba Rutae

Botanical name:

學名﹕

Ruta graveolens L.

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音﹕

henruda, ru

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音﹕

 

Pron. in Cantonese:

粵音﹕

chow cho

Other Names:

別名﹕

Other Chinese names:chou ai 臭艾﹐xiao xiang cao小香草﹐jin jie qi 荆芥七。

Names in other languages: 

  1. Bengali:ermul ,

  2. Hindi: satari,

  3. Urdu: sudah

  4. Spanish: ruda

  5. Tamil: arvada

  6. Malay: daun aroda 

Common Name:

英文名﹕

garden rue, herb of grace

Distribution:

產地﹕

 

Properties

(characteristics)﹕

性味﹕

cold, bitter, acrid.

性寒,味苦﹐辛。

Channels (meridians) entered:

 

歸經﹕

Medical functions:

藥理﹕

 

 

Actions & Indications:

主治﹕

Actions & Indications:

influenza with fever, rheumatoid arthritis, epilepsy of small children, difficulty in urination, diarrhea, hernia, physical injuries, boils, eczyma .

功能﹕祛風,退,利尿,活血,解毒,消腫。

主治﹕感冒發熱﹐ 風濕骨痛﹐小兒驚風﹐小便不利﹐泄瀉﹐疝氣﹐跌打損傷﹐热毒瘡瘍﹐ 濕疹。

 

Chemical ingredients:

化學成份﹕

  1. 桉 葉素 eucalyptol

  2. 芳樟醇 linalool

  3. 莰烯 camphene

  4. 檸檬烯 Limonene

  5. α-蒎烯 α-pinene

  6. 枯醛 cuminaldehyde

  7. 聚傘花素 p-Cymene

  8. 芸香碱 graveoline

  9. 茵芋碱 skimmianine  ﹐

  10. 香草木寧碱 kokusaginine  ﹐

  11. 加锡糜羅果碱 edulinine  ﹐

  12. 山小橘碱 graveolinine  ﹐

  13. 佛手柑内酯 bergapten

  14. 補骨脂素 psoralen﹐

  15. 芸香 rutin  (a polyphenolic flavonolone glycoside containing the disaccharid rutinose as sugar component)

  16. 花椒毒素 xanthotoxin  ﹐

  17. 形花内酯 umbelliferone

  18. 東莨菪素 scopoletin

  19. 異虎耳草素 isopimpinellin

Dosage:

用量﹕

 

Samples of formulae

:處方舉例﹕

chou cao mung bean soup

For cooling and relieving swelling; as food supplement for those with nose and throat cancer, headache, blood in mucus from the nose, and uncomfortable dry throat.

Composition: chou cao 20 g (put in last with rock sugar), rock sugar to taste, sheng di huang 40 g, lu dou 120 g, chen pi 1 piece (to taste). Add appropriate amount of water and simmer till lu dou (mung bean) is tender; then add chou cao and rock sugar. Continue to simmer until the rock sugar is completely dissolved.

Editor note: Dot not use this formula in cases of  pixu (spleen deficient) weak digestion, chronic pain in the lower back with shenxu (kidney deficient), especially women with this type of body function.

臭草綠荳湯

效用:清熱解毒,養胃生津,消腫散結。
凡患上了鼻咽癌病症,頭痛,鼻涕带血,咽喉乾燥不適,可用此湯作食療。
原料:
臭草 20克 (後下),生地黃40克, 綠豆120克, 陳皮1片﹐冰糖適量 (後下)。 加水適量﹐ 以慢火煎至綠荳熟爛。然後加入臭草﹐冰糖。繼續煎至冰糖溶化。

來源﹕中華素食網
  
編者按脾虛腎虛腰痛及身體虚寒者忌用此方。有此類體質的婦女尤忌。

 

Modern Research:

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Toxicity & Cautions:

毒素與禁忌﹕

The one of the active ingredients of chou cao is its evaporating oil. Do not over cook.

揮發油為臭草有效成份之一﹐所以不要久煎以免損失其有效成份。

 

 

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