Stellaria

Stellaria

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonyms] trial (Erya), Gualou (bielu), Zicao (Qianjin Shizhi), geechang and Geer Chang (compendium), wuzhaolong (Hunan medicine records), gouflea (Guangxi medicine plant list), and e-wonton (Chinese herbal medicine manual) were used.

[source] the stems and leaves of Stellaria chinensis.

Stellaria japonica

Annual herbs, 15-60 cm long. The stem is soft, green, cylindrical, rooting on the lower node and branching on the upper node. There is a vascular bundle in the stem and a row of fine hairs on one side of the stem surface. Leaves opposite, ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm wide, apex acute, entire; upper leaves sessile, lower leaves petiolate. Cyme axillary or terminal, with many florets on top; petiole slender, hairy on one side, gradually downward after anthesis, erect when fruit dehisces; calyx 5-piece, oval, slightly obtuse, green, glandular hairs, about 4 mm long; petals 5-piece, white, shorter than calyx or equal, 2-split, directly to the bottom edge: stamen 10, filaments slender, anther apex purple, then turn blue; female Flowers 3, ovary ovate, style short. Capsule ovate, slightly longer than persistent calyx, apex 5-valved at maturity. The seeds are dark brown, round, with obtuse nodules on the surface. The flowering period is from spring to autumn.

Born in the wild and cultivated land. It's distributed all over the country.

[collection] the flowers were harvested from April to July and dried in the sun.

[flavor] sweet, slightly salty, flat.

① Bielu: "acid, flat, non-toxic. "

② Meng Shen: "Wen. "

③ "Gangmu": sweet and slightly salty. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, lowering milk and promoting birth. It can treat postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, lack of milk, summer heat, vomiting, intestinal carbuncle, gonorrhea, malignant sores, swelling and injury.

① Bielu: "the Lord has not healed for years. "

② "Theory of medicinal properties": "it is mainly used for postpartum blood clots, fried heat and children's urination. "

③ "Materia medica notes:" it is mainly used to break blood, and the puerpera can cook food, and lower the milk; when there is a pain in the postpartum abdomen, stir fry it with wine, wring the juice and take it warm; then take it as the end, boil it with vinegar, take 30 pills on an empty stomach, and lower the blood. "

④ According to the book of Materia Medica, it is not beneficial to wipe your teeth to spread the dew. "

⑤ "Guizhou folk medicine collection": antipyretic diuretic, birth, lactation, blood stasis. It can cure traumatic injury, eliminate injury and swelling, and also cure unknown swelling and poison. "

⑥ According to the illustrated book of Chinese medicinal plants, "rubbing the juice with raw leaves for external use; biting the stems and leaves with salt can cure toothache; applying vinegar or burning sesame oil to treat sore and swelling. "

⑦ "Hunan medicine annals:" stop small convenience, enuresis, hand washing foot wind pill, itching all over the body. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or mash juice. External use: tamping; or burning at the end of the research to adjust the application.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat the pain of puerpera, take two handfuls of Trichosanthes kirilowii with water. (fan Wang Fang)

② For heat stroke and vomiting: seven bucks for fresh Stellaria, four bucks for wood leaf, four bucks for rotten maidservant and four bucks for white Achyranthes bidentata. Fry in water and take it before meals. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

③ Treatment of intestinal carbuncle: fresh Trichosanthes twenty-five money. Wash, chop, mash, add yellow, sprinkle a little, twice a day, warm. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of drenching: two handfuls of Trichosanthes kirilowii can be boiled in water and often drunk. (fan Wang Fang)

⑤ For her husband suffering from malignant sores, purulent sores on the head and stem of the vagina, and unbearable pain, those who do not suffer from sores for a long time: one score for Trichosanthes and two scores for earthworms. With less water and research, slow as pancake noodles, to mud sores, dry is easy. Prohibition of alcohol, noodles, five spices and hot food, etc. (Qian Jin Shi Zhi)

⑥ Treatment of carbuncle, fall injury: fresh Stellaria three Liang, mashed, sweet wine amount, fried; fall injury plus melon seeds golden root three money. For external use, appropriate amount of fresh Stellaria, drink with sweet wine, mash and apply to the affected area. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑦ Black moustache hair: Trichosanthes are hydrocarbon, which can be eaten for a long time. (Sheng Hui Fang)

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