Ji Min, Chinese medicine name. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, also known as Apricot Leaf Sand Ginseng, Citrus Stem, Sweet Citrus Stem, White Root, with a sweet, cold, and non-toxic smell. What is the morphology of Ji Min plants?
【The effect of Ji Min in strengthening the spleen and quenching thirst】
Take one pig kidney, one liter of black soybeans, and one and a half buckets of water, boil until half is left. Remove the residue and keep the juice, then add three taels of Ji Min and gypsum, two taels each of ginseng, poria, magnetite, anemarrhena, kudzu root, scutellaria, actinidia root, and licorice, and cook them into three liters of juice. Take it in three doses. This formula is called "Shi Zi Ji Tang".
One tael each of Ji Min, soybeans, poria, magnetite, actinidia root, cooked rhizome of rehmannia, cortex of mulberry root, radix scrophulariae, dendrobium, and deer antler, half tael each of ginseng and agarwood, grind them into fine powder, add the cooked pig stomach, and mix well to form pills the size of wuzi. Take seventy pills each time, take them on an empty stomach, and swallow them with saline water. This formula is called "Ji Wan".
【The nature and taste of Ji Min】
Nature and taste: "Bie Lu": sweet, cold.
"Qian Jin Yi": non-toxic.
"Ben Cao Cong Xin": slightly sweet, slightly cold.
Meridian tropism: "De Pei Ben Cao": enter the Hand Tai Yin meridian.
"Ben Cao Qiu Zhen": enter the lungs and spleen.
【The morphology of Ji Min plants】
The roots are cylindrical and can reach up to 30 centimeters in length. The stem is unbranched and 50-90 centimeters tall. The stem has alternate leaves, almost sessile or nearly sessile, with narrow ovate, rhombic-ovate, or elongated ovate leaflets, 3-8 centimeters long and 1-4 centimeters wide, gradually pointed or abruptly pointed at the apex, wide wedge-shaped or wedge-shaped at the base, with irregular serrations on the edges, without hairs on the surface, and sparse short hairs along the veins on the back.
The inflorescence is sparsely elongated, with slight branching in the lower part, sparsely or slightly densely hairy, calyx with short hairs, 5 lobes, narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 millimeters long and 1-1.5 millimeters wide, 5 shallowly lobed; corolla purple-blue, campanulate, 1.5-1.8 centimeters long, 5 shallowly lobed; stamens 5.
The base of the filaments is wide, with dense soft hairs on the edge; the disc is wide and cylindrical, and the pistil is nearly equal in length to the corolla. The capsule is nearly spherical, hairy, and blooms from September to October.
