Peach blossom

Peach blossom

(illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] tiantianchui (raw herbal medicine preparation), baguacao (Fujian folk herbal medicine), yeeggplant, xiaochaoyang (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), pseudopeach blossom, wild plum blossom, myxole (Nanning medicine record), yangdaigui, loumatou (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine record), baguacao (Fujian folk herbal medicine), honger, shisongmao, maotongzi, niumaoqi (Sichuan medicine record) Chinese medicine annals), triangularis and taozicao (Hunan medicine annals), mimazhuang and wild peach blossom (Guizhou herbal medicine), honghuaditaohua and tukouqi (Yunnan herbal medicine), daoshangyao (Nanchuan Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), damimazhuang tree and big plum tree (Wenshan herbal medicine), wild cotton, youlinghua, tuduzhong, yetongqiao and shanqicai (Fujian herbal medicine), Qianlong Xiachui (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the root or whole grass of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] smallpox xiaofanensis

Erect subshrub, branched, up to 1 m tall, pubescent and stellate throughout. Leaves alternate, lower leaves heart-shaped or nearly round, upper leaves elliptic or nearly lanceolate, 3-8 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, base nearly round, heart-shaped or cuneate, apex short pointed, margin serrulate, sometimes 3-5-lobed or angular, upper green, lower light green, palmate reticulate vein, base of midrib with a gland; petiole 2-6 cm long; stipules 2, linear, caducous. Flowers solitary, axillary or slightly clustered; epicalyx 5-lobed, lobes triangular; calyx 5-lobed, lobes smaller than epicalyx, both surfaces covered with stellate hairs; petals 5, pink, elliptic, base connected with stamen tube; stamens united, filaments connected into tubes, stoma with shallow teeth, anthers purplish red; pistil 1, style cylindrical, apex 10 lobed, stigma capitate, red, covered with short hairs, ovary 5 Ovule 1 per locule. Capsule oblate, longitudinal diameter about 5 mm, transverse diameter about 8 mm, split into 5 from the axis, each capsule is spherical quintuple cuneate, with fine hairs and hooks, hooks are star shaped, each capsule has 1 seed. The flowering period is from May to December. The fruiting period is from June to January of the next year.

It grows on the side of the road, in the wild, on the mountain and in the wild. It is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River.

[collection] all year round.

[herbal medicine] the dry root is cylindrical, slightly curved, with few branches and many fibrous roots on it. The surface is yellowish, with longitudinal wrinkles; the quality is hard, and the section is broken. The stem is gray green to dark green, with shallow longitudinal striae, densely covered with stellate hairs and pilose hairs, and the upper twigs have several longitudinal ribs; the top is hard, the wood section is uneven, and the skin is rich in fiber, which is difficult to break. Leaves curly, dark green above, pink green below, densely pubescent and stellate, palmately reticulate veins, prominent below, with persistent epicalyx in axils.

Produced in Guangxi, Fujian and other places.

The root of Xiao fansmallpox, a variety of coarse leaf fansmallpox, is also used as medicine in Guangxi folk. It is locally called tiebaojin and Wuyun gaixue.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains phenolic compounds, amino acids and sterols. The stem bark contained 21.92% pentosan and 6.87% lignin. The oil content of seeds is 13-14%.

[flavor] Gan Xin, Ping.

① "Preparation of the nature of raw herbal medicine": "it is mild in taste and flat in nature. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "Gan Xin, slightly warm. "

③ Minnan folk herbal medicine: "bitter, pungent, flat. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering lung and spleen meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, clearing heat and detoxifying. Treatment of cold, fever, rheumatism, dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, hematemesis, carbuncle, traumatic bleeding.

① "To cure Dieda, to drink wine from root pot" is the key to the preparation of raw herbal medicine. "

② "Fujian folk herbal medicine": "expelling arthralgia, expelling wind, promoting blood circulation and relieving fever. "

③ "The whole herb is used to cure poisonous snake injury, acute convulsion, tetanus and asthma. Root, treatment of gonorrhea, double single throat moth, exogenous fever, dysentery. "

④ Lu Chuan's materia medica: "breaking accumulation, dispersing poison. Treatment of traumatic injury, sore carbuncle. "

⑤ "Nanning drug records" says: "it has the functions of anti-inflammatory and detoxification, hemostasis and pain relief, purulent discharge and muscle regeneration. To cure red and white dysentery. "

⑥ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treating pulmonary tuberculosis and hematemesis. "

⑦ "Mindong Materia Medica": "it is used to treat the disadvantageous muscles and bones, rheumatic arthralgia, Yang deficiency, spontaneous sweating, edema, diarrhea, postpartum wind, leucorrhea, stomachache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 1-2 Liang; or mash juice. External use: tamping.

[taboo] according to Guangxi medical plant records, "it is forbidden to take medicine for deficiency cold. "

[selection] 1. To cure cold: wild peach root eight money. Take it in water. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Xiao Fan smallpox fresh roots one to two, a pig foot. Half the wine and simmer for three hours. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia, enteritis dysentery: to peach root one to two. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

④ For the treatment of double single throat moth, gonorrhea, exogenous cold and heat, dysentery: two pairs of peach root. Gargle the decoction and take it orally. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

⑤ Treatment of pulmonary hemorrhage: eight trigrams fresh grass head one to two. Wash and mince, stew pork with water, once a day. (Minnan folk herbs)

⑥ Treatment of turbidity, leucorrhea: Xiao Fan smallpox fresh roots one to two. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of nephritis edema: Xiao Fan smallpox fresh root 1 to 22. Drink water to fry, take twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of women's breast carbuncle: fresh leaves of eight trigrams, wash with cold water, mash with distiller's grains, apply to the affected area, dry and change. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

⑨ Cure carbuncle sore, pull pus: raw peach root mash apply. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

⑩ Treatment of snakebite, acute convulsion, tetanus, asthma: raw peach blossom two liang, mash, glutinous rice swill (if there is no glutinous rice, ordinary rice can also be) four Liang, and even, filter juice, oral. Snakebite should be covered with residue around the wound. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

(11) the treatment of knife wearing sore poison and snake bite: the application of knife wound medicine with fresh leaves and velvet. (Nanchuan Handbook of common Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of acute dysentery

Take 1 jin fresh peach root, wash and slice, add water to decoct for 2 times, filter, mix and concentrate the solution to 500ml, add 1.5g sodium benzoate, bottle for later use. 80 ml per day for 1-3 years old, 120 ml for 4-9 years old, 200 ml for 10-15 years old and 250 ml for over 16 years old. Take 3-5 Liang (2-3 liang of dried product) of peach root and decoct for 3 times. A total of 73 cases were treated, 69 cases were clinically cured, 10 cases were improved, 3 cases were invalid and 1 case was unknown. The average cure time (59 cases) was 4.5 days, the longest was 12 days. Among the 5 patients with fever, 1 case dropped to normal within 8 hours, 3 cases reduced fever within 24 hours, 1 case reduced fever within 48 hours, 67 cases had abdominal pain, 36 cases disappeared within 24 hours after taking medicine, and most of purulent stool and diarrhea disappeared within 3 days.

Chinese PinYin : Di Tao Hua