The Chinese herb "Ji Min", also known as Apricot Leaf Sand Ginseng, Citrus Bellflower, Sweet Bellflower, and White Root, is called Apricot Leaf Vegetable in the northeastern region. Ji Min is mainly produced in various regions and grows in grassy slopes. It has the effect of tonifying the middle and relieving thirst, and is used to treat boils and swelling toxins.
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【Geographical Distribution of Ji Min】
Ji Min (original subspecies) is found in Guizhou (Kaili), Guangxi (Yangshuo, Xing'an), Guangdong (Liannan, Ruyuan, Renhua), western Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan (Chengkou, Wuxi, Fengjie, Xiushan), Shaanxi (south of Tongchuan), western Henan, southern Shanxi (Ruicheng, Yangcheng, Jincheng, Lingchuan), and southern Hebei (Cixian).
Huadong Ji Min (new subspecies) is found in eastern Jiangxi (including Mount Lu), western Fujian (Liancheng, Yong'an), Zhejiang (Longquan, Tianmushan), Anhui (Mount Huang, Jiuhuashan), and Jiangsu (Liyang, Nanjing).
【Effects and Functions of Ji Min】
Ji Min has the effects of tonifying the middle and relieving thirst, and is used to treat boils and swelling toxins, black blisters on the face, and poison from eating Hook Vine.
1. Tonifying the middle and relieving thirst (refers to when a man's penis remains erect after ejaculation, known as "tonifying the middle"; if there is excessive thirst and frequent urination at the same time, it is called "relieving thirst", which can lead to abscesses).
Take one pig kidney, one liter of black soybeans, and one and a half liters of water, and boil until half the liquid remains. Remove the residue and keep the juice. Then add three liang of Ji Min and gypsum, two liang each of ginseng, poria, magnetite, anemarrhena, kudzu root, scutellaria, eupatorium root, and licorice, and cook until the volume reduces to three liters. Divide into three doses. This prescription is called "Shi Zi Ji Tang".
Take one liang each of Ji Min, soybeans, poria, magnetite, eupatorium root, cooked rehmannia, cortex eucommiae, radix scrophulariae, dendrobium, and deer antler, and half a liang each of ginseng and agarwood. Grind them together and mix with boiled pig stomach to form pills the size of a wutzi (a type of Chinese measure). Take seventy pills each time, empty stomach, and swallow with salt water. This prescription is called "Ji Wan".
2. Treatment of boils and swelling toxins
Crush fresh Ji Min roots to extract the juice for internal consumption, and apply the residue to the wound externally. It will heal after three applications.
3. Treatment of black blisters on the face
Grind one liang each of Ji Min and cinnamon into fine powder. Take one teaspoon each time and swallow with vinegar soup.
4. Treatment of poison from eating Hook Vine (the leaves of Hook Vine resemble a type of celery, and ingestion can be life-threatening)
Take eight liang of Ji Min and six liters of water, and boil until three liters remain. Take five he of the liquid each time, five times a day. Ji Min can also be used to detoxify Hook Vine. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", Ji Min is sweet, cold, and non-toxic. Take eight liang of Ji Min and six liters of water, and boil until three liters remain. Take five he of the liquid each time, five times a day.
