Hepatica herb

Hepatica herb

(Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole plant of Alliaceae.

[plant morphology] scallion lotus, also known as jade curtain.

Perennial herbs. The bulb is grayish yellow with white inner layer containing mucus, about 2.5 cm in diameter and obvious neck. Several leaves, linear, about 30 cm long, smooth, with grooves. Flower single division: stem, white, outside often dyed light red halo; petiole enclosed in the flame bud; perianth erect, funnel-shaped, near the throat often have small scales, lobes blunt or short tip; stamen 6, shorter than perianth, 3 long, 3 short; ovary lower, each room has more ovules, style linear, slightly longer than stamen, stigma micro 3 crack. Capsule subglobose, 3-locular. Seeds black, nearly flattened. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

Usually potted. It is distributed in Guangdong. Fujian and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and used fresh.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains lycorine, Narcissus alkaloid, strobilodine, nerenine and other alkaloids. The petals contain rutin.

Sweet and smooth.

[function indications] calming the liver and calming the wind. Treatment of children with acute convulsion, epilepsy.

[selection] 1. Treatment of infantile acute convulsion: fresh liver wind grass for three to four yuan. Add water to rock sugar; add fresh liver herb for three to four yuan and salt for one to two yuan. With mash, divided into two pills, pasted on the left and right temples, external gauze cover fixed.

② Cure children epilepsy: fresh liver wind grass three money. Fried in water, mixed with rock sugar. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine comes from nature and taste)

Chinese PinYin : Gan Feng Cao