毛薯，中药名。为薯蓣科薯蓣属植物参薯DioscoreaalataL.的块茎。植物参薯，浙江、江西、福建、台湾、湖北、湖南、广东、广西、贵州、四川、云南、西藏等地常有栽培。具有健脾止泻，益肺滋肾，解毒敛疮之功效。主治脾虚泄泻，肾虚遗精，带下，小便频数，虚劳咳嗽，消渴，疮疡溃烂，汤火伤。
Mao-shu, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. the tuber of Dioscorea alata L., a plant of the Dioscoreaceae family. It is commonly cultivated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, and other regions. It is known for its effects of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing the lungs and kidneys, detoxifying, and healing sores. It is used to treat spleen deficiency diarrhea, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, asthenic cough, thirst, ulceration, and scalds.

功效作用 功能
The efficacy and functions.

健脾止泻，益肺滋肾，解毒敛疮。主治
Tonifying the spleen to stop diarrhea, nourishing the lungs and kidneys, detoxifying and healing sores. Used to treat...

脾虚泄泻，肾虚遗精，带下，小便频数，虚劳咳嗽，消渴，疮疡溃烂，汤火伤。用法用量
Spleen deficiency causing diarrhea, kidney deficiency leading to spermatorrhea, abnormal vaginal discharge, frequent urination, asthenic cough, polydipsia, ulceration, and scalding by hot liquids. Dosage and administration.

内服：煎汤，9-15g；或入丸、散。外用：适量，研末敷。药理作用
Internal use: decoction, 9-15g; or in pill or powder form. External use: appropriate amount, ground into powder for application. Pharmacological actions.

新鲜块茎据云有毒，可治麻醉；煮或炒熟后即无毒，可供食用。相关论述
Fresh tubers of Aconitum are said to be toxic and can be used for anesthesia; however, once boiled or stir-fried, they become non-toxic and can be consumed as food. This is a related discussion.

《植物名实图考》：“江西、湖南有一种扁阔者，俗呼脚板薯，味淡。其子谓之零余子，野生者结荚作三棱，形如风车。”词条图册更多图册加工炮制 采收加工
"Illustrated Catalog of Plant Names and Realities": "There is a kind of broad and flat plant found in Jiangxi and Hunan, commonly known as 'footboard potato' with a mild taste. Its seeds are called 'lingyu seeds', and those growing in the wild form pods that are triangular and resemble windmills." More image processing and collection of picture albums are needed for the entry.

冬初挖掘块茎，洗去泥土；或放在缸内，盖沙贮藏。药材鉴别 药材性状
At the beginning of winter, dig up the rhizomes, wash away the soil, and store them in a jar covered with sand. Identify the medicinal herbs and their properties.

呈不规则圆柱形，长7-14cm，直径2-4cm，表面浅棕黄色至棕黄色，有纵皱纹，常有未除尽的栓皮痕迹，质坚实，断面淡黄色，散有少量淡棕色小点。无臭，味甜微酸，有粘性。植物学信息 植物种属
Irregularly cylindrical in shape, 7-14cm long and 2-4cm in diameter, with a surface ranging from light brownish-yellow to brownish-yellow, and longitudinal wrinkles. Often with traces of unremoved cork skin, solid in texture, with a pale yellow cross-section and scattered light brown spots. It has no odor, a slightly sweet and sour taste, and is sticky. Botanical information about the plant species is needed.

薯蓣科薯蓣属植物参薯。形态特征
The Dioscoreaceae family includes the Dioscorea genus, which contains the Chinese yam. Its morphological characteristics include...

多年生缠绕草质藤本。野生者块茎多为长圆柱形；栽培者块茎变异较大，呈长圆柱形、圆锥形、球形、扁圆形而重叠，或有分支。茎右旋，无毛，通常有四条狭翅，基部有时有刺。单叶，在茎下部的互生，中部以上的对生；叶柄绿色或带紫红色，长4-15cm；叶片绿色或带紫红色，纸质，卵形至卵圆形，长6-20cm，宽4-13cm，先端短渐尖、尾尖或凸尖，基部心形、深心形至箭形，有时为戟形，两耳钝，两面无毛；叶腋内有大小不等的珠芽，珠芽多为球形、卵形或倒卵形。雌雄异株；雄花序为穗状花序，长1.5-4cm，通常2至数个簇生或单生于花序轴上排列成圆锥花序，花序轴明显地呈“之”字状曲折，雄花的外轮花被片为宽卵形，内轮倒卵形，雄蕊6；雌花序为穗状花序，1-3个着生于叶腋，雌花的外轮花被片为宽卵形，内轮为倒卵状长圆形，较小而厚，退化雄蕊6，子房下位，花柱3，分离。蒴果三棱状扁圆形，长1.5-2.5cm，宽2.5-4.5cm。种子四周有膜质翅。花期11月至翌年1月，果期12月至翌年1月。分布区域
Perennial twining herbaceous vine. The wild tubers are mostly long cylindrical, while the cultivated tubers show greater variation, appearing as long cylindrical, conical, spherical, oblate, or overlapping, and sometimes branched. The stem is right-handed, hairless, usually with four narrow wings, and sometimes with thorns at the base. The leaves are alternate at the lower part of the stem and opposite in the middle and upper parts; leaf stalks are green or purplish-red, 4-15cm long; leaf blades are green or purplish-red, papery, ovate to oval, 6-20cm long, 4-13cm wide, with a short acuminate, caudate, or obtuse apex, cordate to deeply cordate or sagittate base, sometimes hastate, with blunt auricles, and hairless on both sides; there are unequally sized bulbils in the leaf axils, mostly spherical, ovate, or obovate. Dioecious; male flowers are in spike-like racemes, 1.5-4cm long, usually arranged in 2 to several clusters or solitary on the raceme axis, with the raceme axis distinctly zigzag-shaped, the outer perianth of the male flower is broadly ovate, the inner perianth is oblong, and there are 6 stamens; female flowers are in spike-like racemes, 1-3 borne in leaf axils, the outer perianth of the female flower is broadly ovate, the inner perianth is oblong-ovate, smaller and thicker, with 6 degenerate stamens, ovary inferior, with 3 separate styles. Capsule is triangularly oblate, 1.5-2.5cm long, 2.5-4.5cm wide. Seeds have membranous wings around the perimeter. Flowering period is from November to January of the following year, and fruiting period is from December to January of the following year. Distribution area.

浙江、江西、福建、台湾、湖北、湖南、广东、广西、贵州、四川、云南、西藏等地常有栽培。
Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other regions are commonly used for cultivation.