White horse bone

White horse bone

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] June snow, roadside gold (Ningxiang County annals), Mantianxing (Yangchun county annals), roadside chicken (caomuben Fang), June Leng, qujiecao (Lingnan herbs collection record), roadside Vitex, fishbone thorn, Guanggu thorn, Guolu Vitex (experimental research of traditional Chinese Medicine), hardwood firewood (Jiangxi Folk herbal medicine), tianxingmu, xiaoyajia, baidianguai (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals), chicken Gugucao, jijiaogu (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine), roadside ginger (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals), jiguchai, qiannianwuda, baimalishao, yehuangyangshu, yongwuda, mishaihua, frozen micai, yueyueyou, zhumixue (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of white horse bone or June snow.

[plant morphology] 1

Deciduous shrub, 25-45 cm high. The branches are stout and gray. Leaves usually tufted, obovate or oblanceolate, 1.5-3 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, apex short pointed, entire, base gradually narrowed into a short stalk, 1-15 mm long; stipules opposite, base membranous, apex with several conical lobes, 1.2-2.5 mm long. Flowers sessile; clustered in the top of branchlets and axils of leaves near the top; bracts 1, oblong elliptic, apex needle tip, ca. 2 mm long, white, membranous; calyx 5-lobed, lobes triangular, conical, 2.5 mm long, leathery; corolla tubular, white, 6-8 mm long. There are 1 tuft of hairs, 5-lobed, lobes oblong lanceolate, about 2.5 mm long; stamen 5, filaments very short, anthers oblong; pistil 1, style about 4 mm long, stigma bifurcated, ovary inferior, 5-ribbed, cylindrical, 2-locular. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit period is from September to November.

It grows on hillsides, roadsides, streams and shrubs. It is distributed in the middle and south of China.

② June snow, also known as: spray snow, snow elixir, ririyou, white Piper flower.

The shape is very similar to that of the upper species, but the leaves are smaller, narrowly elliptic or elliptic oblanceolate; the calyx lobes are triangular and shorter. The ecology and distribution are the same as above.

The roots of the above two plants are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

The dried branches are dark gray with longitudinal cracks on the surface, and the cork is often peeled off. The twigs are light gray, the nodes are surrounded by membranous stipules, the flowers grow on the top of the branches, the calyx is gray white, 5-lobed, membranous. The branches are slightly hard and the fracture surface is fibrous. Most leaves fall off, a few remain, green yellow, thin leathery, curly uneven, brittle, easy to break.

Produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

[chemical constituents] it contains glycosides and tannins.

Bitter, pungent and cool.

① Materia medica: non toxic. "

② "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": bitter taste, cold nature. "

③ Guizhou folk medicine: "cool in nature, pungent in taste. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, removing dampness, clearing heat and detoxifying. It can treat rheumatism, lumbocrural pain, dysentery, edema, red eyes, swelling pain, sore throat, toothache, leucorrhea, carbuncle and scrofula.

① Materia medica: stop water and dysentery. "

② "Preparation of the nature of raw herbal medicine": it can cure typhoid fever, heatstroke, crazy rave, fire disease, and also relieve body heat. "

③ "Ningxiang County annals": "section: can cure children's convulsion, abdominal pain; branch: burn ash can point Yi. "

④ "The name and reality of plants" is "treating heat syndrome, hemorrhoids, women's leucorrhea. "

⑤ Lingnan caiyao Lu: "it can relieve heat, eliminate stagnation, stop dysentery; it can also treat typhoid fever, epidemic diseases, back sores, carbuncle and gangrene, and detoxify. "

⑥ Nanjing folk herbs: "stop vomiting blood. "

⑦ "Experimental study of traditional Chinese medicine": "treatment of red eye swelling and pain. "

⑧ "Anhui herbal medicine": "boiled with the old hen, can treat chronic nephritis edema. "

⑨ Guizhou folk medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, relaxing channels and activating collaterals. Treatment of knife injury, paralysis, male and female weakness, Feiyu. "

⑩ "Treatment of laryngodynia" in Guangxi records of traditional Chinese Medicine. "

(11) records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "clear away heat and wind. Treatment of dizziness and chest diaphragm evil heat. "

Chinese herbal medicine for relieving dampness, relieving swelling and removing dampness (12). Treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, rheumatism, lumbocrural pain, carbuncle swelling, sores, snake wounds. "

(Shanghai Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine): "it can promote blood circulation, reduce swelling, dispel wind, remove dampness and strengthen the body. Treatment of women with amenorrhea, leucorrhea, dizziness and weakness. "

(14) "treatment of chyluria". He Shi Da Chuan Jian Fu, treatment of facial paralysis. "

⒂ "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs": "liver, dampness, spleen, diarrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: burn ash, drench juice, wash with boiling water, and tamp the residue.

[formula selection] 1. To treat dysentery, the stem and leaf of white horse bone were taken with boiling juice. (notes on materia medica)

② Treatment of hepatitis: June snow two liang, yellow road one or two, decoction. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of bone steaming heat, infantile malnutrition: June snow one to two, decoction. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

④ Treatment of red swelling and pain: one or two stems and leaves of roadside Vitex negundo, fried, dregs and then smoked. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of migraine: fresh white horse bone 1 to 2 liang, water fried soak a little. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑥ Treatment of pharyngitis: June snow three to five money, fried in water, one dose a day, take twice. (prescription collection of new Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)

⑦ Treatment of toothache: white horse bone in half, with cuttlefish stew service. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑧ Cure thrush: white horse bone leaf a grip, slightly pound, soak rice swill, take juice wash mouth. (Mindong materia medica)

⑨ Treatment of malignant sores, polyps, vitiligo: Baima bone, Baitiao, jisangpi, Huangjing, etc. Burn for the end, drench juice, wipe to break the coating. (notes on materia medica)

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