Angling orchid

Angling orchid

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonym] Chlorophytum Hybridum in Phnom Penh (medical records of Nanning City), eight leaf orchid, orchid grass and Chlorophytum rigidum (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of Chlorophytum.

[plant morphology] Chlorophytum

Perennial herbs. Rhizome is flat or oblique, with many thick roots. Leaves numerous, tufted from rhizome, linear, 15-30 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex long pointed, green or sometimes yellow stripe. Floral stems longer than leaves, sometimes becoming stolons with leaf bundles or young plantlets near the top; flowers white, arranged in a long and scattered raceme; perianth annulate, lobes 6, narrow, ca. 1 cm long; stamens 6, filament upper part evergreen flat; ovary inferior, sessile, 3-locular, style linear. Capsule triangular. The seed is flat. The flowering period is spring and moon.

It is cultivated in flower beds and gardens.

[collection] all year round.

Sweet and sour, cool.

① "Nanning medicine annals": "sweet slightly bitter, flat. "

② Quanzhou materia medica: "it tastes sweet and slightly sour, and its nature is cool. "

③ Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it is pungent in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "entering the heart, liver and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing blood stasis, detumescence and detoxification. It can cure cough, hoarseness, hematemesis, amenorrhea, traumatic injury, carbuncle, swelling, ear and toothache.

① "If you have hoarseness and hoarseness, take the whole herb and take it. He also treated women with amenorrhea. "

② Flora of Guangzhou: "treating Dieda and other diseases. "

③ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "clearing away heat, treating hematemesis, stopping earache, calming asthma. "

④ "Clearing heat and removing blood stasis" is one of the most important contents in Nanning medical records. To cure hoarseness and cough; to take juice to wash ear pus; to tamp and fill the affected area to cure toothache. "

⑤ Quanzhou materia medica: "Tuihuang detumescence, Sanjie Baidu. Treatment of carbuncle, swelling and pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (fresh 1-1.5 Liang); or grinding. External use: tamping or ear drops.

[taboo] Quanzhou materia medica: "pregnant women should not use it. "

[formula selection] 1. Treatment of traumatic injury: the dry whole grass of Chlorophytum is the end. Three yuan for each, warm with wine. (Quanzhou materia medica)

② Cure wind poison and knot for a long time: wash the fresh whole grass of Chlorophytum with roots, mix glutinous rice with a little salt, mash and apply to the affected area. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Treatment of lung heat cough: Chlorophytum root one or two, rock sugar one or two. Take it in water.

④ Treatment of hematemesis: Chlorophytum, wild horseshoe grass each one or two. Take it in water.

⑤ Treatment of swelling and pain; magnolia leaf mashed, fried with wine hot compress the affected area. (3) Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine

Chinese PinYin : Diao Lan