Kaschin Beck herb

Kaschin Beck herb

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[synonyms] penpenpencao, pentongcao (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), Jiecai (Chinese medicine plant Atlas), dishwashing grass (Mindong materia medica), jiegutong (Practical Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Equisetaceae.

[plant morphology] Equisetum caninum, also known as Equisetum palustre.

Perennial herbs. Rhizome creeping, slender, dark brown, often tuberous. Branching in autumn, solitary, slender, slender, slender, often verticillate, 5.5-12.5 cm in height, often verticillate, often verticillate. Leaf sheath teeth triangular ovate, apex brown, margin white, membranous, elongated to tip as white long setae. The sporangium is oblong, stemmed, terminal, purplish brown at the beginning and yellowish at the end; the sporangium is under the shield shaped sporophyll, the spores are homomorphic, with two filamentous elasticles, and cross shaped, which encircle the spores and spring open in case of water for reproduction.

It is wild in paddy fields, ditches and shady wetlands. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[chemical constituents] the content of alkaloids in the hay is 15-302 mg%, including vitexine, vitexine and nicotine. It also contains aconitic acid, kaempferol-8-rhamnose-7-glucoside, methylsulfone, thymine, etc.

[nature and taste] Mindong materia medica: "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet and slightly bitter. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering the liver, lung and gallbladder. "

Functions and indications: dispersing wind, improving eyesight, promoting blood circulation and relaxing tendons. It is used to treat windward tears, pannus covering eyes, traumatic injury, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids.

① Guizhou folk medicine collection: "antipyretic, diuretic, Shujin, Huoxue, Jiegu. Treat eye diseases. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "dispelling wind, relieving muscle, stopping bleeding, and removing eye shadow. Treatment of eye disease, windward tears, Yidian blinding, intestinal wind hemorrhoids leakage, blood dysentery, collapse. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang).

[should avoid] it should not be used when Yin deficiency and fire are strong.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat eye diseases: one or two fresh sarcandra, five yuan rock sugar and two liang pig red meat. Stew in water, take it in the morning and in the evening.

② Treatment of traumatic injuries: five yuan of dried Kashin Beck grass and two liang of pig red meat. Stewed in water.

③ Zhishilin: one or two fresh Kaschin Beck herbs and five winter honey. A cup of boiling water for stewing. (it's better not to publish "Mindong Materia Medica" below)

Chinese PinYin : Gu Jie Cao