Chrysanthemum in poetry and medicine

DuanZhenLi Henan college of traditional Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        37 back to the cool autumn zhai accidentally "Chinese flowering crabapple club, overgrown with weeds sui yuan Heng night quasi chrysanthemum problem", the 38th back to the forest xiaoxiang chief take chrysanthemum poems, XueHengWu genius and crabs of "wrote by TanChun launch, the treasure jade and all the sisters response, in the grand view garden built within the poetry club. They XianQi alias, times of Chinese flowering crabapple, again of chrysanthemum and crabs.

        Poetry club is TanChun launch, chrysanthemum poems proposition is pao-ch 'ai and xiang cloud prescribed. There are 12 topic, in order is have chrysanthemum, visit chrysanthemum, kind of chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, for Daisy, chrysanthemum, painting of chrysanthemum, ask chrysanthemum, hairpin chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum shadow, chrysanthemum dream and residual chrysanthemum. This 12 first chrysanthemum poems, the treasure jade, pao-ch 'ai, TanChun each write 2 first, dai jade, xiang cloud each write three first. The final review is of chrysanthemum first, ask the chrysanthemum second, chrysanthemum dream third, these three capital xiaoxiang princess written, so this back to the topic is the forest xiaoxiang chief take chrysanthemum poem ". Dai jade poems is the title, because new questions, new idea, more lies in her poems mix his charming thought personality, character temperament and the feeling of life. In these poems, dai jade will have "a high wind" chrysanthemum lead for a friend, "hair end aggregates show the cream to write, speak with sweet moon to sing", says talk, hopes his sadness fell lonely, no one can solution "full paper" "element quarrels with his".

        Cao xueqin let dai jade chrysanthemum poems the title, and in of white quince let xiang cloud "overwhelming qunfang", in the "genius and crabs of" and let pao-ch 'ai ranked first, this is all he wants us to, namely make the things of the "quality" to coincide modulated its character. Things of lyric, only the dai jade life and temperament and chrysanthemum more joint. For chrysanthemum, she is better than another can more fully and more real, more natural to express their thoughts and feelings.

        Chrysanthemum morifolium originated from China, also called yellow flower, HuangHua, chamomile, medicine chrysanthemum, etc., is one of the ten big name in our country. Two thousand years ago have the zhou dynasty "the book of rites" have "JiQiu moon, bow have HuangHua" records. Song dynasty poet HanQi wrote: "mo too old nursery autumn let light, still see yellow flower particularly sweet". MAO zedong also wrote "field yellow flower particularly sweet".

        More important still depend on chrysanthemum lasting appeal. In the late autumn season, cold wind whisper that is green and luxuriant. The vegetation in the successive atrophy, chrysanthemum but stand proudly, blossom, in front of severe frost show fortitude character and noble moral integrity, so it is really "not the evening wind and frost fraud, only open the energy has developed"; "Would rather hold fragrant branches old, not as yellow leaves dance zephyr". Because of this, chrysanthemum for the vast number of people's deep love, and combining it with pine, bamboo and plum coordinate, known as the "four gentlemen". Chrysanthemum medicine in our country has a long history, our country the first materia medica "shen nong's materia medica" treatise on record. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, chrysanthemum cool in nature, taste sweetness and bitterness to lung, liver by two, with sparse wind, clear heat, bright eye, detoxification effect, can be treated have a headache, dizziness, conjunctival congestion, breadth of mind irritated heat, Indian skullcap, swollen poison and disease.

        Chrysanthemum and mulberry leaf, mint, platycodon root, radix scutellariae compatibility, water frying clothing, can treat wind hot pathogenic cough, headache, dizziness, pharynx pain disorder. Chrysanthemum and radix rehmanniae, mint, tribulus terrestris, semen plantaginis, feather cockscomb seed compatibility, water frying clothing, can treat wind fever of headache, dizziness, etc. Because chrysanthemum cool in nature and clear scattered, into the liver meridian, good the wind hot, and liver begin to understand in the eye, so it again for the eye to medicine, treatment of liver meridian wind hot cause eye diseases. In addition, the market SangJu's cold tablet, qi chrysanthemum dihuang pill, also contain chrysanthemum. LiShiZhen think, chrysanthemum "the seedlings can be height, leaf can sip, and the flower can be bait, root real can be medicine, capsule can pillow, making the drink", body are useful, is the top grade qunfang. Chrysanthemum as pillow, there are bright eye decompression effect; Chrysanthemum wine, and have the JianGu success; Chrysanthemum tea, and can relieve summer heat thirst, cool and refreshing detoxification, clear liver bright eye.

        In materia medica classification, chrysanthemum in symplectic nourish the cold medicine, still have a kind of wild chrysanthemum flower, and famous mountains chrysanthemum, belong to clear away heat antidote, clinical application have distinction. With wild chrysanthemum flower match dandelion, water frying clothing, and at the same time will leave by hot compress at local, can treat carbuncle swollen furunculosis, erysipelas evil boils. With wild chrysanthemum flower, radix scutellariae, selfheal, water frying clothing, can treat hypertension headache, dizziness. With wild chrysanthemum flower with plantain, rhubarb, can treat heat strangury, urinate short red heat pain syndrome, pay attention to pregnant women avoid clothing.

        In medicinal, chrysanthemum should be in frost's descent flowers are in full bloom before the harvest. Medicinal chrysanthemum gas fragrance, taste light slightly bitter, with flowers complete, color bright, gas faint scent, no impurity is preferred. Zhejiang's HangJu, henan bosom chrysanthemum, anhui Chu Daisy and there is the chrysanthemum, all for tunnel medicinal materials. Chrysanthemum root, leaf, miao also for medicinal. Root can treat throat malignant throat tinea, Indian skullcap; Leaf can treat ulcer, head wind, dizzy, Miao, can clear courage hot, can be bright eye to "can also be cooked porridge edible.