Thalictrum mollis

Thalictrum mollis

(Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] maozhuzi (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine), Honglian (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole grass or root and rhizome of Thalictrum Pterocarpus.

[plant morphology] Thalictrum samaritanum

Herbs perennial, about 60-150 cm high. Rhizome short, fibrous root black brown. Stem erect, glabrous. The leaflets are thick herbaceous, broadly ovate heart-shaped to obovate cuneate, or suborbicular, 1.5-2.5 cm long and 1.2-3 cm wide, 3-lobed, lobes entire or coarsely toothed, veins slightly raised. Compound monocytic cyme corymbose, with many branches; sepals white or purplish, broadly elliptic, 3-3.5 mm long; without petals; stamens numerous, 6-9 mm long, upper part of filament oblanceolate; carpel 6-8, ovary with long stalk, style short. Achenes several, obovate, with 3-4 longitudinal wings and a protruding beak. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to September.

It grows in forest edge, forest grassland and riverine shrub. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Shandong, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] in autumn, the roots and rhizomes were dredged and dried in the sun; in summer, the whole grass was collected and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "bitter, cold. "

[Guijing] treatment manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine: "entering heart, lung and stomach channels. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. Treatment of lung heat, cough, angina.

① Jilin Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and inflammation. Treatment of lung heat cough. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "clearing heat and detoxification. It can be used to treat all kinds of fever. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or make syrup.

[clinical application] treatment of angina

Make 100% syrup from cat's paw, 5 ml for each time within 6 months, 8 ml for 7-12 months, 10 ml for 1-3 years old, 15-20 ml for over 3 years old, 3-4 times a day, before eating, 3 days as a course of treatment. 40 cases were treated, 26 cases were cured, 8 cases were improved, 3 cases were invalid and 3 cases were unknown. The average cure time was 1.5 days.

Chinese PinYin : Chi Guo Tang Song Cao