Flower face Asarum

Flower face Asarum

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] Herba asari folii, Herba Cynanchi, Herba fantianyin (Sichuan chronicles of traditional Chinese Medicine), Herba zanthoxyli, Herba asari, Herba asari, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli, Herba zanthoxyli.

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of Asarum grandiflorum.

[plant morphology] Asarum grandiflorum

Perennial herbs. There are light yellow creeping rhizomes, many fleshy roots, and usually two leaves at the top. The leaves are large, thick, ovate elliptic, 16-20 cm long and 8-10 cm wide, apex acute, base heart-shaped, curved and narrow; petiole fleshy, 14-20 cm long, sparsely pubescent. The flowers are large, solitary, stem apex, 6 cm in diameter, purplish brown; the petiole is 2-9 cm long; perianth is short, lobes are 3, broadly ovate, about 3 cm long, about 4 cm wide, with white transverse wrinkles at the base; stamens are 12. Capsule fleshy, subglobose; ca. 2. 5 cm in diam. Seeds conic, apex acuminate, abaxial surface nearly smooth.

It grows in shady and wet places under hillside forests and by streams. It is distributed in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer. Wash and dry. In Guangxi, the whole plant was dug in winter, washed and dried.

[medicinal materials] the rhizome of the dried whole grass with roots is stout, straight or curved, about 5-10 cm long and 3-4 mm thick; it is brownish gray or light brown in appearance, with many links, residual shrunken leaf base or dried leaves at the top, a few fine fibrous roots at the bottom, and no obvious wrinkles. Broken flour is white. The leaves are wrinkled, crisp, withered green or withered brown; after soaking in water, they are heart-shaped, with flower spots on the surface; the petioles are slender and purple brown. The air is slightly fragrant. The best color is yellow green and white stripe.

Produced in Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "pungent, slightly bitter, warm, non-toxic. "

② Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "pungent, warm, with little poison. "

[Guijing] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the lung and spleen meridians. "

[function indications] it is used to treat wind cold, cold, headache, cough, asthma, rheumatic pain and falling injury.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "dispersing cold, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and wind. It can cure headache, cough and nasal obstruction. "

② "Warming meridians, dispersing cold, relieving cough and relieving asthma" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of chronic bronchitis, asthma, rheumatic pain, numbness of limbs. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 yuan; or grinding powder, 2-3 points.

[taboo] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "body deficiency, sweating, cough, hemoptysis and pregnant women should not take it. "

[selected prescriptions] ① for rheumatism and cold, headache and body pain: hualianxixin, Fangfeng, Atractylodes, Fuling, tangerine peel, notopterygium. Take it in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of eggplant, scattered blood stasis: Hualian asarum, red Achyranthes bidentata, red Eupatorium, touguxiao. Wine making clothes. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

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