Yuncao

Yuncao

(drug records of Nanning City)

[synonyms] saruomang (name of seed plants), yiwanpao (name of seed plants), gongercao (name of medicinal plants in Guangxi), and guoshanshe (name of plants in Guangxi).

[source] it is the whole plant of Polygalaceae.

[plant morphology] conodont

Annual erect herb, 5-20 cm high. Stems slender, narrowly winged. Single leaf alternate; heart-shaped or round, 0.4-2 cm long, 0.3-1.4 cm wide, apex obtuse or convex, base somewhat heart-shaped, entire or slightly wavy, basal veins 3-5; membranous; petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Spikes terminal, 1-6 cm long; flowers very small, about 2 mm long, light red; bracteoles very small, caducous; sepals 5, linear subulate, base connate, persistent; petals 3, lower connate, the lateral pair shorter. Capsule very small, ca. 2 mm long, margin with a row of curved, triangular short cleft teeth. The seeds are black and shiny. It blooms in autumn.

Born in the wilderness. Distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn, dry in the sun and cut into sections.

[nature and taste] Nanning medical records: "spicy, warm, spicy, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: detoxification, pain relief, and removing haze. Treatment of unknown swelling, toothache and leukoplakia.

① "It has the effect of anesthesia and analgesia. "

② "Guangxi plant list": "detoxification, detumescence, pain. It can cure snakebite, nameless swelling poison. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping, decoction, gargling or fumigation.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of leukoplakia: fumigation and washing of Radix Yuncao by boiling.

② Treatment of toothache: gargle with herbal decoction.

③ Cure sore poison, snake bite: blow Yuncao to smash external application. (the prescription was selected from the drug records of Nanning City)

Chinese PinYin : Chui Yun Cao