Turtle and fish
(list of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang)
[synonym] Desmodium desmodicum, Dryopteris pseudo Shiwei (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), cowpea (Shaanxi medicine plant investigation), wolongcao, Maya, guazicao, dabushi, Sanbaibang (Hunan medicine record), mahuanqi, huiyangsheng, liantiancao, xiaofeijin, xiaoxianxian (Guangxi medicine plant list), yatongwei, yatongyubie (Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain medicine plant record).
[source] it is the whole plant of Polypodiaceae.
[plant morphology] lithopteris
Perennial herbs. Rhizome slender, long and transverse, reticulate stele, densely covered with scales; scales ovate lanceolate, light brown at apex, brown on old stem, peltate. The leaves are distant, leathery, narrowly linear, 3-9 cm long and 1.5-3.5 mm wide, with strongly involuted margin. The leaves are covered with stellate hairs at the beginning, and fall off after a long time. The middle ribs are sulcate above and protruding below, densely covered with yellow stellate hairs. The veins are reticulate, and disappear. The leaves are sessile or short stalked, and have joints. The sporangia are linear, in a row between the middle rib and the margin, and are often covered by involute leaf margins.
Born on the wet stone of mountain forest, by the stream, or on the dead tree. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu, etc.
Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. Treatment of hernia swelling and pain, traumatic injury, irregular menstruation of women.
① "Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources list": "Ye: treat hernia swelling and pain, benefit urination. "
② "Investigation of plant medicine in Shaanxi Province": "analgesia, regulating menstruation. "
③ "Huoxue Tongjing" in Hunan medicine records. It's used to treat wounds, ulcers and colds. "
[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: mash juice and drop it on the nose.
[selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury, muscle and bone pain: fresh leaves of lithopteris, mashed. Take the natural juice and drop it into the nose. (Hunan medical records)
② Treatment of children with acute convulsion: duck tongue Wei one or two, a yellow flower root five to six money, lobelia, cold twist (Rosaceae sorghum bubble) root four to five money each. Take it in water. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)
Chinese PinYin : Cang Tiao Yu Bie
Turtle and fish
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