Pulmonale

Pulmonale

(illustrated medicinal plants)

[synonym] Cymbidium perforatum, tiejiaobei, butterfly grass, mountain butterfly, golden butterfly, shibanken, tongjiaobei, jinjiaobei, Zhuyeqing, sixiaoxi, huabutterfly, tiebanqing (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine), and Hulian (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the tender whole grass of the Gentianaceae.

[plant morphology] double butterfly (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), also known as double butterfly with clustered flowers, Gentiana scabra and white deer.

Perennial twining herbs. When young, the basal leaves are 4, 2 large and 2 small, opposite to each other in cross shape, oval to elliptic, 3-7.5 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, with 3 main veins, green above and yellowish green mass below, reddish purple below, apex obtuse or sharp, base gradually narrow, sessile. The stem is thin, spreading, about 70 cm long, with opposite triangular narrowly ovate to pentagonal lanceolate leaves, 2-5 cm long and 0.5-2 cm wide. The base is microcardiate or even round, with short stalks and 3 veins. The flowers are large, solitary in leaf axils; the calyx tube is 5-lobed at the apex, and the lobes are linear; the Corolla is rose purple, the base is tapering, the apex is 5-lobed, the lobes are triangular, and there are slightly prominent truncated appendages between the lobes. Capsule globose, reddish purple, ca. 8 mm in diam. The flowering period is from August to September.

There are hillsides, fields and wetlands. It is distributed in central, South and southwest China.

The plant of the same genus is also used as pulmonale.

[collection] harvest in early summer and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "the taste is pungent and the nature is cold. "

Functions and indications: clearing lung, relieving cough, detoxifying and detumescence. Treatment of lung heat, cough, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, lung carbuncle, nephritis, carbuncle, furuncle.

① Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "ramming and applying various poisons. "

② "The picture of medicinal plants": "treating hemoptysis. "

③ Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "in addition to cold and heat, treat tuberculosis, lung carbuncle. "

④ Flora of Jiangxi: "stop cutting blood. "

⑤ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of breast sores, dysentery, irregular menstruation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of lung heat, cough and blood vomiting due to strain: five or six coins of feixingcao (double fresh), one or two pieces of rock sugar. Take it in water. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of cough, phlegm and lung carbuncle: lung shaped grass two to three money. Take the decoction with sugar or other lung clearing medicine. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of carbuncle: fresh lung shaped grass (mashed, such as mud), add a little chicken protein with mash, apply to the affected area, change once a day. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of nephritis: lung shaped grass four money, rush five money, corn root one or two. Take it in water, one dose a day.

⑤ Treatment of children with high fever: lung shaped grass two money, a little rock sugar. Take it in water, one dose a day.

⑥ Treatment of sores, furuncles and gangrene: mash the fresh leaves of lung shaped grass and apply them to the affected area. Change the dressing twice a day. Then use the whole grass for three to five dollars. Take it in water. (4) herbal medicine manual of Jiangxi Province

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