Ephedra Sinica

Ephedra Sinica

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonyms] millet grass (a textual research on the name of the plant), Chinese fir (Guizhou folk medicine), duck foot melon seed grass (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora).

[source] it is the whole plant of Amygdalus sibiricus.

[plant morphology] sorghum

Annual herbs, 10-30 cm high, glabrous. The taproot is thin and yellow white. The stem is inclined, ribbed, multi branched, with 3-5 whorled leaves, obovate or oblong roots; the stem leaves are lanceolate, or linear lanceolate, entire and sessile. Inflorescence terminal or axillary; flowers small, reddish brown, with short stalks; perianth 5, separate; stamens 3-5, alternate with perianth; ovary superior, 3-locular, style 3, short. Capsule cell dorsal dehiscence, many seeds, round kidney shaped, brown black, tumor like processes.

Born in wasteland, sand, and dams. It is distributed from the middle to the southwest of China.

[collection] harvest from May to June

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "light, slightly astringent, flat."

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. Treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, skin rash, fire eye.

"Guangxi medicine plant directory": "antibacterial anti-inflammatory. "

[usage and dosage] for internal use: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. For external use: mash the mouth or plug the nose.

[prescription selection] ① for abdominal pain and diarrhea: one or two corn grasses, five to six bucks for qingmuxiang and Agrimonia. Fried in water, once in the morning and once in the evening. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

② Treatment of skin rash: Mahuang mashed package Cunkou. (Guizhou folk medicine)

③ Fire eye: seven tender tips of Herba Ephedrae and seven tender leaves of Jiuli. The mixture of the two drugs was tamped into the nose, the pain in the left eye blocked the right nostril, and the pain in the right eye blocked the left nostril. (Guizhou folk medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Di Ma Huang