Orchid ginseng

Orchid ginseng

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] Codonopsis pilosula (Diannan materia medica), Adenophora tenuifolia, Desmodium japonicum (questioning materia medica), waer grass, Lactuca (plant name Collection), blue flower ginseng, blue flower grass (Diannan materia medica Atlas), crutch ginseng (Diannan materia medica collated edition), cupangcao, shexu grass, Adenophora japonicum, boshizhu (Sichuan Chinese materia medica), Guchui grass (Chongqing herbal medicine), jinxiancao, Tianzhu There are three kinds of herbs: pengcao, Cucurbitaceae, bawangcao, yiwoji, xiaolvxixin and hancao.

[source] it is the root or the whole grass with roots of Cymbidium japonicum.

[plant morphology] orchid ginseng

Herbs perennial, ca. 30 cm tall. Taproot is thick and long, lateral root is more, light yellow. Stems slender, erect or meadowly. Leaves alternate, oblanceolate or linear lanceolate, ca. 2 cm long, apex short, margin sparsely shallowly serrate, base elongated, both surfaces sparsely hairy, sessile. Flowers solitary, light blue; pedicel slender; calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, erect; corolla blue, bell shaped, deep 5-lobed; stamen 5, filaments near base expanded, anthers long elliptic; pistil 1, ovary inferior, obconic, 3-locular, ovules numerous, style slender, stigma 3-lobed. Capsule, obconic, ca. 7 mm long, base narrow, fruiting stalk, yellow when mature, dehiscent from apical calyx teeth. Seeds numerous, small, long oval, dark brown, glossy. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruiting period is May.

Born on the roadside, stone ridge, sand or stone crevice. Distribution in East China and Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet and slightly bitter. "

[Guijing] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "enter the spleen and heart. "

[function indications] tonifying deficiency and relieving exterior. It is used to treat asthenia, fatigue, hemoptysis, night sweats, leucorrhea, cold, cough, stomachache, diarrhea and knife injuries.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "tonifying deficiency, stopping spontaneous and night sweats, and stopping women's leucorrhea. "Recuperate the vital energy, cure five labors and seven injuries, all kinds of deficiency and all kinds of damage, replenish qi and nourish yin. "

② "Questioning Materia Medica": "it's a dispersive product for treating cold, wind, cold and dampness. "

③ "Hunan medicine annals": "tonifying spleen and stomach, benefiting lung and kidney, eliminating phlegm, killing insects, hemostasis. "

④ "Mindong Materia Medica": "relieving exterior heat, resolving phlegm and stopping cough. Treatment of wind heat, cough, hemoptysis, bleeding, infantile convulsion, traumatic injury. "

⑤ "Guizhou folk medicine": "mash and apply, treat knife wound, bone; decoction, treat stomach cold pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: mash and apply.

[prescription selection] ① for postpartum hemorrhage, asthenia, strain, dysphoria, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, leucorrhea: orchid and ginseng. A tender hen, to the intestine, into the ginseng, boiled rotten service. However, for those who are extremely weak, the same tooth pig can also be used for stewing. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of tuberculosis: sea cucumber, pheasant bubble. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of cold and cough: Decoction of Radix Glehniae. (Hunan medical records)

④ Cure infantile convulsion: Orchid ginseng whole grass four money. Stew in boiling water. (Mindong materia medica)

⑤ Early treatment of dysentery: fresh orchid and ginseng, fried in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of toothache: Orchid ginseng grass five money, an egg, rock sugar five money. Add water to stew. (Mindong materia medica)

Chinese PinYin : Lan Hua Can