Sedum

Sedum

(Quanzhou materia medica)

[synonyms] Capsicum annuum, tetragonum mongolicum, lanhuazi (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), durian and tetragonum mongolicum (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] mother plant

Annual herbs, weak, all bald. The lower part of the stem is on the ground, 10-30 cm long, and the flower stem is raised. Leaves simple, opposite; ovate, 1-2 cm long, apex mucronate or obtuse, base cordate, margin serrate. Flowers solitary in axils, petioles longer than leaves, or terminal racemes; calyx green, 4-5 mm long, 5-lobed to base; corolla white or lavender, 8 mm long; stamens 4. Capsule cylindrical or rectangular cylindrical lanceolate, twice as long as calyx, apex with persistent style. The flowering period is from July to October.

Born on the side of a field or a roadside. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan and other places.

[collection] from January to October.

[nature and taste] ① Quanzhou materia medica: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

② Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, cool. "

[function indications] Qingre Xiaozhong, Lishui Tonglin, treat wind heat, eye pain, carbuncle swelling, leucorrhea, gonorrhea, dysentery, infantile diarrhea.

① "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "clearing away heat and toxin, eliminating swelling and toxin, and promoting diuresis. It is used to treat carbuncle, swelling, five kinds of gonorrhea, spermatorrhea, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea and hematuria. "

② "List of medicinal plants in Guangxi": clearing heat and detoxifying. Treatment of mastitis, mumps, snakehead sores, snakebite, asthma. "

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

[should not] pregnant women should not use it.

[selection] 1. To treat red eye pain caused by wind fire: xiandingcao (2 liang). Take it in water.

② Treatment of carbuncle, gangrene, swelling and poison: fresh set the appropriate amount of grass, combined with cold rice grain and a little salt tamping; another one or two whole grass, water fried instead of tea.

③ Treatment of wind and poison: three liang of fresh sedative herbs. Take the decoction instead of tea, and rub the whole herb juice on the affected area.

④ Treatment of spermatorrhea, turbidity, leucorrhea: fresh set by the grass in half, combined with pig red meat stew service. (Quanzhou materia medica should not be published below)

⑤ Treatment of pneumonia: five yuan for fresh sifangcao, one yuan for Aixin, three yuan for Daqing, one yuan for oxalis and three yuan for tiancoriander. Smash the chest. (selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)

⑥ Cure dysentery: fresh square grass one or two. Water fried into half a bowl, and rock sugar five money transfer service. (selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)

⑦ Treatment of infantile diarrhea: fresh square grass two to four Liang. Take it in water, one dose a day. (selected materials of new TCM therapies in Fujian Province)

⑧ Treatment of children with acute convulsion: fresh set by grass five money, a little rock sugar. Stewed in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

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