Sedum aizoon

Sedum aizoon

(save famine materia medica)

[synonyms] yangxincao, daoshanheidou (Fujian folk herbal medicine), masanqi, baisanqi, Piper (Hunan medicinal records), Aesculus (Mindong materia medica), yanhaidoupi, huishengcao (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), xuecao (Fujian Jinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual).

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

[plant morphology] Fei CAI

Succulent perennial herbs. Rhizome thick and woody. Stem erect, 15-40 cm high, cylindrical, glabrous. Leaves alternate, obovate, or oblong, 2.5-5 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, widest above middle, apex slightly rounded, base cuneate, margin near apex dentate, few sessile. Cymes terminal, loose; sepals 5, lanceolate, obtuse; petals 5, orange, lanceolate, acute; stamens 10, almost as long as petals; scales small; pistils 5, free, slightly longer than stamens. Follicles stellate spreading, reddish or brown. Seeds obovate, brown. It blooms in summer.

It grows on mountain rocks or river slopes. It is distributed in the north and middle of China.

[collection] harvested in summer and autumn, fresh or dried.

Sour and smooth.

① "Save famine Materia Medica": "sour taste. "

② "Fujian folk herbal medicine": "acid, flat, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering the heart, liver and spleen three meridians. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, hemostasis, calming heart, diuresis, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of traumatic injury, hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematochezia, palpitation, carbuncle.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "it can suppress liver and calm heart, clear blood heat and treat palpitation. "

② "Breaking blood, promoting blood circulation and cooling blood" is the key point of Hunan medical records. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan (fresh 1 ~ 2 liang), external: tamping.

[taboo] "Mindong Materia Medica" says: "it should not be used when the intestines and stomach are weak and the stool is loose and thin. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: one fresh vegetable, two whole grasses, (three to four yuan for each root). Decocting water to dregs, sweet wine mixing service; two fresh fee stem, leaf appropriate. Chop and mash, mash with distiller's grains and apply to the affected area. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

② Treatment of tuberculosis hemoptysis more than: fresh fee leaves one to two. Wash with cold boiled water and dry in the shade. Take it two to three times. Take several leaves each time and chew them in your mouth. Take it with boiling water; or seven pieces of fresh vegetable leaves, one or two pieces of rock sugar, chew in your mouth, and take it with boiling water. (Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine, Jinjiang, Fujian)

③ Treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis and toothache: three liang of fresh vegetables. Fried or mashed with boiling water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

④ Cure large intestine haemorrhage: fresh cost dish one or two. Stew wine to eat. (Guiyang folk herbs)

⑤ Treatment of knife wound, fire wound and poisonous insect stab wound: use the whole herb to smash and apply the wound. (Hunan medical records)

⑥ Cure hysteria or palpitation hyperfunction: fresh fee dish 2 liang, honey 2 liang, pig heart 1 (do not cut, keep internal blood). Put it in a magnetic pot, put it around the pig's heart, don't put it upside down, add honey and flush it into boiling water, so as to immerse it. Stew in the pot, go to the cost of food, eat twice. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of carbuncle and swelling: the whole herb is a waste of food. Mash and apply to the affected area. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑧ Treatment of high blood pressure, upset face red: fresh vegetables whole grass two Liang. Decoct in water, drink with honey. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

Chinese PinYin : Fei Cai