Chicken head

Chicken head

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] chicken skull (caomuben Fang), jigongtou, jitouzao, jilaogai (classified herbal medicine), tielangji, xiaoguanzhong (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), jitoufengwei, wuji'er, qitouji (collection of folk commonly used herbal medicine), xiaoyunji (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), dayelangyi, dijitou, fenghuangyi, xiaoyeguanzhong (Jinhua common Chinese herbal medicine prescription) They are selected from the prescription, xiaojiwa dish and Shaanxi herbal medicine.

[source] it is the rhizome of Dryopteridaceae.

[plant morphology] Guanzhong mountain, also known as little golden pheasant tail and little leaf pheasant tail.

Perennial herbs, 30-80 cm high. Rhizome short, oblique or erect, densely scaly; scales large, more than 1 cm long, reddish brown, shiny, ovate, acuminate. Petiole tufted, 15-30 cm long, densely covered with ovate and linear scales, the edge of scales is fimbriate; leaf blade oblong, 15-45 cm long, 10-17 cm wide, odd pinnate compound leaf, apex Trident; pinnae 10-20 pairs, alternate, lower pinnae not shortened, 10 cm long, 2 cm wide, falcate, long acuminate, short petiole, base rounded or upper auricular, margin serrate The leaf is papery, light green, and the leaf axis is covered with scaly hairs; the leaf veins are connected, reticulate, oblique hexagonal, with 1-2 veinlets inside; the sporangia are round, scattered on the back of leaflets, with large cap, shield like, wavy, membranous and brown margin.

It grows on the edge of water ditch, roadside, stone and wet place. Distribution of the Yangtze River Basin, back to southern Shaanxi, South to Fujian and northern Guangdong.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, most of which are from August to September. After harvesting, remove the fibrous roots and aboveground parts, dry or fresh.

[medicinal material] the rhizome is short and small, like a chicken head, dark brown, 5-8 cm long and 3-4 cm thick. The surface was covered with many petiole residues, with brown black curved fine roots and reddish brown glossy scales at the top. Petiole residue is thin and small, its cross section is square, and there are 3-4 vascular bundles. It is better to have large rhizome and few fibrous roots.

[chemical constituents] the rhizome contains tannin, volatile oil, gum, sugar, amino acid, as well as Guanzhong glycoside, Guanzhong renoside, astragaloside, Isoquercitrin, etc.

[taste] bitter, slightly cold.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is slightly cold in nature, bitter in taste and has little poison. "

② Chengdu "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "flat nature, bitter taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, cooling blood and calming wind, dispersing phlegm and stopping bleeding, and expelling hookworm, Ascaris, tapeworm and pinworm. It is used to treat cold, fever, rash, fever, poisoning, malaria, dysentery, hepatitis, liver Yang vertigo, headache, hematemesis, hematochezia, blood avalanche, leucorrhea, mastitis, scrofula, traumatic injury.

① Classified herbal medicine nature: "it can cure all kinds of deficiency, women's collapse, dizziness and deafness. "

② Tianbao materia medica: "clearing fire and detoxifying, eliminating pestilence, red and white dysentery, red and white belt.". "

③ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "tonifying weakness, eliminating injury and swelling, connecting bones. It can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. "

④ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "for night sweats. "

⑤ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "treat dizziness, headache, blood gas distending pain. "

⑥ Chengdu "commonly used herbal medicine treatment manual": "rest the wind, clear and benefit the leader, cool the blood, nourish the blood, detoxify and disperse blood stasis. When the treatment line plague, malaria, fever, sore swelling, abdominal pain. "

⑦ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, lowering blood pressure, killing insects. It can cure hypertension, dizziness and headache, prevent and treat acute infectious diseases, Ascaris lumbricoides and pinworm. "

⑧ "Promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, hemostasis and killing insects" in Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. It can cure fever, rash, hepatitis, dysentery, hematemesis, hematochezia, urinary tract infection, Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, tapeworm, wound bleeding, mushroom poisoning, and prevent influenza. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

[should not] pregnant women should use it with caution.

[selection] ① treatment of dizziness and pain due to blood deficiency: dizzy chicken head with black chicken stew. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of intestinal parasitic diseases: faint chicken head, meat of gentleman, betel nut, Torreya grandis. Take it in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

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