Andrographis paniculata

Andrographis paniculata

(Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] chuanqiancao, dingxinfeng (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), Andrographis paniculata, shizicao (Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine new selection).

[source] it is the whole plant of Andrographis paniculata.

[plant morphology] Andrographis paniculata

Annual erect branched herbs, all glabrous, stem cylindrical, yellowish green, bifurcate branched. Leaves opposite; base connate and slightly round, stem through its center, entire margin, paper, green above, pink green below, veins about 14, radial base, slightly curved top, protruding on both sides, net veins obvious; sessile. Cymes terminal with leaves; flowers bisexual, white, sessile, surrounded by a funnel-shaped leaf; corolla tube cylindrical, membranous, ca. as long as calyx tube, usually 5-lobed, lobes obovate; stamens usually 5-lobed, on corolla tube, alternate with corolla lobes. Capsule ovate, pericarp membranous, enclosed by funnel-shaped leaves about 8 mm high. Seeds very small, many, oblate, brownish yellow. The flowering period is autumn and winter.

It is found in the rock crevices of stone mountain or earth hillside. Half Yin. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn and winter.

[pharmacological action] the Indian plant of the same genus, canscora decussata, contains a certain crystalline component, which has a cholinergic like effect: it can reduce the blood pressure of anesthetized dogs, inhibit the isolated rabbit heart and frog heart, excite the smooth muscle of small intestine, uterus and bronchus, and enhance the contraction of rectus abdominis muscle by acetylcholine. The other component has only some central sedative effects.

[nature and taste] 1. Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly sweet and slightly bitter in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

② "New selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine": "slightly bitter taste, cool nature..

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Treatment of lung heat, cough, hepatitis, leptospirosis, jaundice, chest pain, stomachache, internal blood stasis, snakebite.

① Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "Regulating Qi, relieving pain, relieving cough. Treatment of lung heat cough, heart and stomach gas pain, snakebite. "

② New selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine: "cool the liver and gallbladder, promote blood circulation and relieve pain. Treatment of jaundice, hepatitis, chest pain, stomachache, internal injuries. "

③ "For acute bronchitis, pneumonia, acute gastritis, duodenitis" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou air force. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan, double dosage for snake bite. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of cough due to lung heat: Rhizoma chuanxincao and Rhizoma Dioscoreae. Take it in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② They were all used to treat leptospirosis. Decoction in water, take three times, throat pain plus wild prickly ash whole plant in half; epistaxis, with Oxalis mash Chongfu. For external use, one jin of olive tea leaves, Chinese Toon Leaves, Chinese toon bark, Jasminum odoratum leaves, houishan tiger leaves and sour soup stalk are fried in soup, washed twice a day. (selected works on infectious diseases)

Chinese PinYin : Chuan Xin Cao