Huixincao

Huixincao

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] bryophyte, an umbrella with iron feet.

[source] it is the whole plant of bryophytes.

[plant morphology] Bryophyllum rubrum

Perennial bryophyte; rhizome transverse, 5-8 cm long, dark reddish brown, with many hairy roots; stem erect, reddish brown, 2-3.5 cm high. The leaves of the lower part of the stem are smaller, membranous, and scale like; the leaves of the top of the stem are larger, most of them are clustered like flower buds, the leaves are long obovate, 5-8 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, the lower part of the edge is entire, involute, the upper part is serrate, and the middle rib of the leaf is single. Capsule petiole thin, 3-5 cm long. Capsule cylindric, long ovate, 7-8 mm long, reddish yellow, pendulous. The spore stage is summer and autumn.

It grows in wet forest land, wet soil slope, wet rock and stone crevice. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, fresh or dried in the shade.

[nature and taste] selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "light, slightly bitter, flat. "

[function indications] tranquilizing and calming. Treatment of heart disease, palpitation, neurasthenia.

① "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "sedative, aphrodisiac. "

② "Calming the nerves and calming the nerves" in selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan. To treat palpitation and palpitation. heart disease. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① for heart disease: one heart herb, one money, one or two jujubes, a proper amount of rock sugar, decoction. (selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine) two pieces of heart grass and two coins, several pieces of pepper, mashed and stuffed into the heart of the pig, boiled, and served with the dregs and soup. (selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

② Treatment of mental illness, neurasthenia: back to the heart grass two to three money, cinnabar grass one money, a little wine, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

Chinese PinYin : Hui Xin Cao