Huangyuan
(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)
[source] it is the whole grass of Senecio scandens.
Forest Senecio scandens
Perennial erect herbs, about 50-100 cm high. Leaf blade broadly lanceolate to ovate, long elliptic, margin serrate, base cuneate, glabrous on both sides; petiole short. The head is arranged in corymbose shape, small, mostly, 1.7-2.6 mm in diameter, short peduncle; the involucre is in one row, bracts are leathery, 6-7 mm in length, linear; the edge has one row of glossy flowers, 5-9, glossy long, yellow, 13-19 mm in length, with tubular flowers in the center. Achene, 3.5-4 mm long, glabrous, corolla 6-6.5 mm long, white. The seeds are light brown.
Born in caodianzi, forest edge, forest wetland. It is distributed in the north and east of China.
The samples were collected from August to August.
[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains alkaloids such as Senecio macrophylla and Senecio flaccidum. It also contains artichodin and chlorogenic acid.
[pharmacological action] please refer to the article "big white top grass".
Bitter, pungent and cold.
[Guijing] into the liver and spleen meridian.
[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. It can treat dysentery, eye swelling, carbuncle, furuncle and toxin.
[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan. External use: tamping.
[selected formula] ① for enteritis and carbuncle: Huangyuan with curcuma (or Edelweiss), decoction.
② Treatment of hepatitis, conjunctivitis: Yellow aster with Gentianaceae or Swertia, decoction.
③ Treatment of sore swelling: huangwan, tamping. (the following is the manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment.)
Chinese PinYin : Huang Wan
Huangyuan