Safflower

Safflower

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] Rice cloth bag (rescue materia medica), Cardamine (wild recipe), forsythia, wild broad bean (Research on the name and reality of plants), Astragalus sinicus, zihuazicao (mustard garden painting manual), hehuajiao (gengxinnonghua), hehualang (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine), lianhuacao, Huacao (domestic herbage plants), crab flower, lantern flower (Guizhou folk medicine Collection) The results showed that there were three kinds of medicinal herbs in Guizhou, namely, micanhua, yeyacao (Guizhou folk medicine), Vernonia (Guizhou herbal medicine), gunlongzhu (Shaanxi herbal medicine), micaihua, safflower and cauliflower (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual), honghualang (Jiangsu herbal medicine manual).

[source] the whole plant of Astragalus sinicus.

[plant morphology] Astragalus sinicus

Annual herbs. Stem erect or creeping, 10-40 cm high. Leaflets 7-13, obovate or elliptic, 5-20 mm long, 5-12 mm wide, apex concave or rounded, base cuneate, both surfaces hirsute; stipules ovate. Umbels are axillary, with 5-9 flowers, more than 10 cultivated flowers, long pedicels; bracts triangular ovate, covered with bristles; calyx campanulate, covered with bristles; corolla purple or yellow white, petal ovate, base cuneate, apex rounded and slightly absent, wing petals slightly short, keel petals and petals equal in length; stamens 10 (9 + 1), ovary style and stigma glabrous. Pods oblong to 2 cm long, black, glabrous. The flowering period is from mid February to early June. The fruit period is from early March to the end of July.

Distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, and widely cultivated.

The seeds of this plant (ziyunyingzi) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] collected in March and April, dried or fresh.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains trigonelline, choline, adenopurine, fat, protein, starch, vitamins, histidine, arginine, malonic acid and concanavaline.

[flavor] Gan Xin, Ping.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is slightly sweet. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes astringent and sweet, and its nature is cold."

③ Su Yi's Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine: "micro pungent, flat. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. It is used to treat wind, phlegm, cough, sore throat, burning eye, sores, herpes zoster, traumatic bleeding.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "clearing fire and detoxifying. It is used to treat rash, sore throat and hemorrhoids. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, dispelling wind and detumescence. For herpes zoster and boils. "

③ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "dispelling wind, improving eyesight, relieving heat and diuresis. Treatment of wind, phlegm, cough, malaria, fire eye, trauma and bleeding. "

④ Su Yi's Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine: "treating eye diseases and neuralgia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or fresh mashed juice. External use: tamping or grinding.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of Judu: smash the rice umbrella flower, apply it around the Jue sore, and expose the head.

② Treatment of sore throat: dried rice umbrella flower and ginkgo leaf, grind into fine powder, add a little ice, blow into the throat with paper tube, spit out saliva.

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids: appropriate amount of rice umbrella flower, tamping juice, external hemorrhoids application; internal hemorrhoids with one or two decoction. (1) Guizhou folk medicine is published below the prescription.)

④ Treatment of gingival bleeding: wash the lotus pith, cut it carefully, take it with juice, three or five times a day, 10-20cm each time, and take it with cold boiled water. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of wind, phlegm and cough: milk vetch or two, white horse bone or four. Decoct in water, add sugar, take once in the morning and once in the evening before meals. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑥ Treatment of malaria: milk vetch, geese do not eat grass each one or two. Take it in boiling water.

⑦ Fire eye: mash and apply with milk vetch.

⑧ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: Astragalus leaf tamping application. (6) herbal medicine manual of Jiangxi Province

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