把中药五倍子当文蛤入药,已有很长时间,范围亦相当广泛,有不少地区的药店和医院药房依谬传谬,误用至今. 其实五倍子和文蛤本是两种毫无相似之处的药物,为什么能把五倍子当文蛤用呢?追溯其根源,早在宋代,开宝本草五倍子项下,载有“五倍子形似文蛤”之称,以后著作多依此为据,误解为五倍子即文蛤也. 五倍子为块腐木植物的叶子经蚜虫寄生而长成的虫瘿,秋季采集后即蒸煮以杀死蚜虫,其形状大小不一,质硬而脆,断面角质,有光 It has been a long time since the Chinese medicine gall nut was used as a medicine. The range of pharmacies and hospital pharmacies in many areas was misused and misused. In fact, the Chinese gall nut and the mandarin duck are two kinds of similarities. Drugs, why can we use the gall to use it? Trace back to its roots. As early as in the Song Dynasty, Kaibao Herb’s five-fold subitem, it contained the title of “Five Gallons of Manifestations,” and many later books were based on this and misunderstood it as gall, that is, Wen Hao. Galla chinensis is a worm that grows from the leaves of a rot of a rot tree and is wormed to kill worms after harvesting in autumn. The shape and sizes of the worms are hard, brittle and horny.