Selaginella

Selaginella

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] baozu, qiugu, shentoushi (Wupu materia medica), Jiaoshi (bielu), shilianhua, Huiyang (Diannan materia medica), undead (Diannan materia medica illustrated), immortal (compendium), wanniansong (primordial materia medica), immortal (Huajing), Shihua (Shengjing Tongzhi), huanhun (classified herbs), Jiusi huanhun (modern reality) In this paper, the author introduces the Chinese herbal medicine (traditional Chinese Medicine), Jianshui Huanyang herb (manual of Zhejian traditional Chinese Medicine), bergamot herb, evergreen herb (records of northeast medicinal plants), tiger claw (Hebei medicinal materials), Selaginella amurensis, dabushi (records of Nanning medicine), tiequantou and Yansong (materia medica of Mindong).

[source] it is the whole grass of Selaginella Selaginella.

Selaginella Selaginella

Perennial herbs, 5-15 cm high. The main stem is short, erect, with fibrous roots. Each branch is clumped, erect, curled after drying, densely covered with tile like leaves, and each branch is fan-shaped to 2-3 pinnate branches. Leaves small, heteromorphic, alternate; lateral leaves lanceolate subulate, ca. 3 mm long, base keeled, apex long awned, one side adaxial entire, broadly membranous, one side abaxial membranous, margin very narrow, slightly serrate; middle lobe two rows, ovate lanceolate, 2 mm long, apex long awned, obliquely, both sides unequal, margin slightly serrate, midrib depressed above leaves. The sporangium is tetragonal, the sporophyll is triangular, with long awn at the apex and wide membranous at the edge; the sporangium is kidney shaped, with irregular arrangement of megaspores and microspores.

Born on rocks. Distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested in spring and autumn, but it is better to be green and tender in spring. After harvest, cut off the fibrous roots, leave a little rhizome, remove the soil and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried whole grass is rolled up into a ball, which looks like a fist, sometimes like a flat ball, with different sizes, and is generally 5-10 cm long. The branches and leaves are clumped, flat and branched, green or brownish yellow, curling inward, and the branches are densely covered with scaly leaflets. It is brittle and easy to break. There are a few tufted fibrous roots at the base. Odorless, tasteless. It is better to be green, leafy and intact.

It is produced in most parts of the country. It is mainly produced in Shandong, Liaoning and Hebei.

In addition to the above varieties, the whole grass of Selaginella matsutake is also used as medicine. They are similar to those on the roots. Stem from the base part of the branch, tufted. Middle lobe apex straight, forming 2 parallel lines, leaf margin thick, entire. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Hebei and other places.

[chemical composition] it contains flavonoids, phenolic components, amino acids, polysaccharides such as trehalose and a small amount of tannin. The flavonoids were apigenin, amentoflavone, Platycladus orientalis and isocryptomerin.

[processing] Selaginella charcoal: take the clean Selaginella charcoal, put it in the pot, stir fry it with fire until the appearance is scorched black and the inside is scorched yellow, spray water, take it out and dry it in the sun.

[flavor] pungent, flat.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes pungent and warm. "

② Bielu: "sweet, mild cold, non-toxic. "

③ "The preparation of Materia Medica" says: "raw with pungent, flat; fried with pungent, warm. "

④ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "it tastes light and slightly astringent, and its nature is slightly cold. "

[Guijing] Bencao Jingshu: "entering foot Jueyin, Shaoyin blood points. "

[functions and indications] it is used to break blood and stir fry to stop bleeding. Shengyong is used to treat amenorrhea, Baihuang, traumatic injury, abdominal pain and asthma; chaotan is used to treat hematemesis, hematochezia, hematuria and anorectal prolapse.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it governs the five internal organs evil Qi, women's Yin cold and heat pain, Baihuang, Xueguan, Juezi. "

② Bielu: "relieving cough and adverse reactions, treating prolapse of anus, dispersing lymph nodes, head apoplexy, dizziness, flaccidity, strengthening Yin and benefiting essence. "

③ "Treatise on medicinal properties": "it's impossible to treat menstruation. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "calm the heart, remove the face? Head wind, warm water and dirty. It is used to break blood in raw and to stop bleeding in roast. "

⑤ Classification of herbal medicine: "treat traumatic injury, promote qi, stir fry black, stop hematemesis. "

⑥ Modern Practical Traditional Chinese medicine: "treating blood in urine. "

⑦ Anhui herbal medicine: "external use can cure knife wounds. "

⑧ "Nanning drug records": "for the treatment of febrile intestinal bleeding and uterine bleeding, external use of bone graft. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 0.5 ~ 3 yuan; soak in wine or into pills or powder. External use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

① It is forbidden for pregnant women. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan" says: "it should not be used lightly if it is not due to blood stasis or disease caused by blood stasis. "

[prescription selection] ① for women with blood stasis, cold and heat exchange, and infertility of their offspring: four Liang Selaginella, two liang Angelica (fried with wine), two liang Atractylodes macrocephala, two liang peony bark, one or two white peony, and five Qian Chuanxiong. It can be divided into seven doses, decocted in water, or refined honey as pills, four yuan for each morning, and white soup for delivery. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

② Treatment of traumatic injury, local pain: fresh Selaginella every time one or two (dry five money). Once a day, fried. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Treatment of abdominal pain, asthma and hematemesis: Selaginella, Spatholobus, white flower grass, ground pepper. Soak in wine for a week and take it on an empty stomach at noon. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of stomachache: two pieces of Selaginella matsutake. Take it in water.

⑤ Asthma treatment: Selaginella cushion, Verbena five money each. Decoct in water and use rock sugar as the guide.

⑥ Cure epilepsy: cushion shape Selaginella two liang, light bamboo leaf roll heart one or two, rock sugar two Liang. Take it in water.

⑦ For hematemesis, hematochezia and hematuria: one or two cushion Selaginella (fried) and two or two lean pork. Stew in water, take soup and eat meat. Two cushion like Selaginella (fried) one or two, Agrimonia pilosa one or two. Take it in water. (4) Jiangxi herbal medicine

⑧ Treatment of large intestine blood: Selaginella, Platycladus orientalis, palm, etc. The nature of burning is the last. Take three yuan for each, drink, or take rice pills. (Ren Cun Tang experience prescription)

⑨ Treatment of blood under intestinal toxicity: Selaginella, tender Astragalus each equal. For the end, rice drink tune. Three yuan for each. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑩ Treatment of blood collapse, leucorrhea: Selaginella five money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

(11) treatment of soup fire injury: fresh Selaginella, mashed and applied. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

[clinical application] it is used to stop bleeding in infants

Take the leaves of Cupressus funebris, wash them, dry them, grind them, sterilize them under high pressure, and seal the storage bottle. With the help of vascular forceps, the umbilical cord was cut off, 0.5-1.0 g of powder was sprinkled on the broken end, and the vascular forceps were released after 1-3 minutes to achieve the purpose of hemostasis. 273 cases of clinical observation, 270 cases were successful, 3 cases were ineffective. It is considered that this product not only has good hemostatic effect, but also has anti-inflammatory and astringent effects. In the successful cases, the umbilicus was drier than that of ligation with suture, without odor, and no infection or other side effects were found.

"Selaginella, its treatment is divided into raw and mature. Health is slightly cold, the force can break the blood and dredge the meridians, so the treatment of Baihuang lymph nodes and other diseases; burning is pungent and warm, can stop bleeding, so the treatment of bowel redness and anal prolapse and other diseases. There is a big difference between the nature and the lateral cypress leaves, and the treatment is also slightly different. "

Chinese PinYin : Juan Bai