Eight Immortals

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[alias] zhujinjin (wild recipe), xiaosawteng and Sawgrass (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), xiaowuteng and Sawgrass (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals), xiqicao (Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Labrador or Celastrus latifolia.

[plant morphology] 1. Labrador vine

Annual herbs, vinate or climbing, 20-40 cm long. The stem is green, slender, square, branched, with inverted spines on the edge. Leaves 6-8 whorls, sessile, membranous, linear lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, 2-4 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, apex with a needle tip, green above, covered with inverted white bristles, light green below, smooth and glabrous except along the midrib and margin, lateral veins unidentified. Inflorescence sparsely cymose, axillary; flowers small, ca. 1 mm in diameter; calyx truncate, less than 1 mm long, uncinate; petals 4, greenish white, sometimes purple, ovate, very short; stamens 4, alternate with petals; ovary inferior, 2-locular, style 2-lobed. Fruit slightly fleshy, twin, surface densely white uncinate. The flowering period is from April to May. Born in wasteland, garden, cultivated land. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

② Celastrus crassifolia, also known as sawtooth vine.

Annual herbs. Yan lying salty slightly inclined. Stem hexagonal, branched, with small barbs on the branches, rough. Leaves 4-8 whorls, membranous, linear lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, 1.8-4 cm long, 3.3-6.6 mm wide, apex with needle like tip, tapering downward; entire, hairy, base clasping. Peanut in leaf axils, 3-8 florets, row into an open cyme; calyx 4, truncate; corolla wheel, very small, less than 1.5 mm in diameter; petals 4, ovate, green white or purple halo, only base United. Fruit slightly fleshy, densely uncinate white. It blooms in spring.

Born on hillside and roadside. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn, sun dry or air dry.

[medicinal material] the dried whole grass is yellow green or withered yellow, with thorns in all, and the stems and leaves are mostly curled into clusters. The stem is tough, fibrous, and the leaves are brittle and easy to break. Most of the fruits fall off, leaving an umbrella shaped fruit stalk.

Produced in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places.

Bitter, pungent and cold.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it tastes hard, but its nature is slightly cold. "

② "The taste is astringent and the nature is flat. "

③ "Hunan medicine records": "sweet and astringent, slightly cold. "

[Guijing] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "entering Shaoyin and Taiyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing dampness and heat, dispersing blood stasis, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat drenching, hematuria, traumatic injury, intestinal carbuncle, furuncle and otitis media.

① "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "for the treatment of dampness and heat, there are various meridians, such as guest heat, deficiency tuberculosis, child tuberculosis, muscle and bone pain, heat drenching, red white and turbid stool, and jade stem pain. It can be divided into fever and dysuria. "

② "Treatment of scabies" in Guizhou folk medicine collection. "

③ "Treating dysmenorrhea in women" in Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals. And mash the juice to make glutinous rice paste to cure flying sores. "

④ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "clearing away heat and toxin, reducing swelling and relieving pain. For carbuncle, appendicitis and cancer. "

⑤ Common folk herbs in Kunming: "clearing away heat and inflammation, dispelling wind and dampness, dispersing blood stasis, treating phlegm and fire heat syndrome, wind heat, eye mist, eye excrement, rheumatism, traumatic subcutaneous swelling. "

⑥ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat, cooling blood, diuresis. It's used to treat haemorrhage and urinary tract infection. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or mashed juice drink. External use: tamping or ear drops.

[prescription selection] ① to treat Wulin: baxiancao, Sanjian, Erqian, Yiqian, shuangguocao, Erqian. I'll fry it in water and take it in wine. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treating women's amenorrhea: two coins for pigs. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of traumatic injury: fresh pig root, malangen four preserves each. Half water and half wine. In addition, the whole grass and equal parts of the fresh pig were mashed and applied externally.

④ Treatment of cold: fresh pig disaster disaster one or two, ginger three. Make a water suit with the juice.

⑤ Initial treatment of furuncle: appropriate amount of fresh pig, mashed with sweet wine and applied externally, twice a day.

⑥ Treatment of acute appendicitis: three liang of fresh pigs. Take it orally in boiling water.

⑦ Treatment of breast cancer: four liang of fresh pigs. Mash juice and apply lard to cancer ulcers, or take it orally in boiling water.

⑧ Treatment of gingival bleeding: two to three liang of fresh pigs. Take it in water. (3) herbal medicine manual of Jiangxi Province

⑨ Treatment of otitis media: fresh pig, mash juice ear drops. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] ① treatment of bacillary dysentery

5-2 taels of dried Labrador, 2 times a day; or made into tablets, 0.3 g each, 10 tablets each time, 4 times a day; or extract tablets, 0.3 g each, 4 tablets each time, 4 times a day. 72 cases were observed, 69 cases were cured (symptoms disappeared, stool microscopic examination and culture were negative), 2 cases were improved (symptoms disappeared, but stool culture was positive), 1 case was invalid. The average hospital stay was 9.23 days.

② Treatment of cancer

Take half a catty of fresh rattan juice, add brown sugar, 1 dose a day; or wash and chop it with 1 liang of dry product, fry it in water for 30-60 minutes, add brown sugar, 1 dose a day, 3-6 times; or wash and chop it with dry product, put it in an iron pot for a moment, take it out, 1 Liang a day, brew it with boiling water, and take it repeatedly. Nine cases of breast cancer, esophageal cancer, mandibular adenocarcinoma and cervical cancer were treated. Among them, 1 case was clinically cured (symptoms disappeared, objective examination tumor disappeared, labor force recovered, and the condition did not recur after observation for more than one year), 3 cases were markedly effective (symptoms disappeared, tumor significantly reduced, labor force improved, and maintained for more than one year), and 3 cases were effective (symptoms relieved, tumor stable or slightly reduced, and the condition was stable) 2 cases were cured for more than 6 months, 3 cases were invalid; 6 cases were treated for benign tumor, 2 cases were markedly effective, 4 cases were effective. The shortest course of treatment is more than one month and the longest is two years. Long term use of non-toxic reactions and obvious side effects, only some patients after taking dizziness, nausea and so on. If you take brown sugar, the reaction can be alleviated; at the same time, if you take Yiqi Yangying to strengthen the body, the reaction can basically disappear.

Chinese PinYin : Ba Xian Cao