Herba Rehmanniae

Herba Rehmanniae

(Kaibao materia medica)

[synonym] seven star Lotus (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), Chinese Kale herb, Chinese cabbage seed, jimucao herb (Fujian folk herbal medicine), cucumber herb (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), white cucumber, dogwort herb (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), cucumber herb, Herba serrulatae, Caulis pubescens, Cucumis sativus (Hunan medicinal records), wild cabbage (Guizhou herbal medicine), cold poisonous herb (Yunnan Traditional Chinese medicine selected).

[source] it is the whole plant of Corydalis stoloniferae.

[plant morphology] Corydalis stolonifera

Herbs annual, often white pilose. The stolon is extracted from the basal leaf cluster, rooting everywhere, with new leaves. Leaves tufted, oval or ovate elliptic, 2-7 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, margin serrate. Apex obtuse, base narrowly cuneate, rarely heart-shaped, with scattered white hairs on both sides; petiole flat, 1.5-6 cm long, with narrow wings and white hairs on both sides; stipules free, linear lanceolate, margin with long teeth. Flowers pale purple or white, pedicel 5-9 cm long, middle wired bracts 2, above middle nearly glabrous, below middle scattered white hair; sepals 5, lanceolate, margin with white hair, base extended into appendages; petals 5, oblong obovate, lower petal with spur, capsule oblong, about 5 mm long, glabrous. The flowering period is from April to November.

It grows on roadside and wetter land. It is distributed in East China, South China and southwest China.

[collection] from March to April or from September to October.

Bitter, cold.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "slightly bitter and sweet, flat.". "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, mild in taste and non-toxic. "

③ Selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan: "slightly bitter, cold. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification. Treatment of wind heat, cough, dysentery, drenching, carbuncle, sore, eyelid inflammation, burns.

① "Treatment of red and white dysentery". "

② Tianbao materia medica: "resolving phlegm. Treatment of wind cold cough, pain around the joints. "

③ Fujian folk herbal medicine: "in addition to heat and detoxification, diuresis and dampness. "

④ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "eliminate wind and clear away heat. It is used to treat children's fever, cough, mad dog bite, knife wound and sore poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: dare.

[selection] 1. Treatment of drenching: eight to one or two coins of fresh white cucumber. Fry it in half a bowl with water, take it before meals, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of sores, back carbuncle, redness and swelling of eyes (caused by heat): hold the fresh white cucumber, wash it with cold water, mash it with winter honey and stick it on the affected area. Change it twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of blepharitis: one or two cold poisonous herbs, fried; or one or two boiled eggs, once a day. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

④ Treatment of knife and wound: white cucumber, cypress tip, beef tendon tip. Gonghe was born and tamped, and applied to the affected area. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Snake bite treatment: fresh white cucumber a grip, wash, and realgar a money. Mash them together and stick them on the affected area. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of scalds: creeping Fu pansy, even money grass, a total of mash and egg white transfer application. (Hunan medical records)

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