bluebeard

bluebeard

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] bolonghua (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), dujiaoqiu, shihmucao (a collection of herbs in Lingnan University), zoumafeng (a list of plants in Lingnan University Campus), duanju (flora of Guangzhou), jiulanglou, yementha (flora of Nanning), yinchencao, jiejiejiehua (a list of medicinal plants in Guangxi), Zhuo, maahao, dujiaoqiu, shanmentha (a list of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Guangzhou Army) Ziluoqiu, diluozhu, yexiancao, zifulian, Duihua, shunshechong, yaobili, yejinhua, shixiancao (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine), baijipoqiao, xiaoliuyuehan (Shaanxi herbal medicine), xuehancao (Shaanxi herbal medicine), jiucengta, pseudoxiancao, huangyachai (Fujian herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of the Verbena herb.

[plant morphology] Vanilla

Erect shrub, 25-60 cm high, densely hairy. Leaves opposite, shortly stipitate, ovate or ovate oblong, 2-5 cm long, apex obtuse, base rounded, margin coarsely serrate, both sides densely covered with gray pubescence. Cyme, a petiolate bouquet, many flowers, 1-1.5 cm long; calyx campanulate, about 2 mm long, hairy, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; corolla blue, tube about 4 mm long, 5-lobed, 1-lobed larger, margin ciliated, outside hairy; stamens 4, 2-long, 2-Short, protruding; style linear, 2-lobed. Capsule globose, coarsely hairy outside, divided into 4 sunken millet petals, the margin of petals curved like wings, holding seeds. The flowering period is June.

Born in the wild. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn, cut off and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the root is thick and cylindrical. The skin is rough, yellowish brown, with longitudinal crack and wrinkle. The young stem is bluntly square, grayish brown or brownish purple. Leaves opposite, long ovate to ovate, wrinkled, grayish brown to dark brown, papery, twisty. It has the special aroma of Zanthoxylum bungeanum and bitter taste.

Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan and other places.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains flavonoid glycosides, alkaloids, phenols, steroids, amino acids, organic acids and tannins. The content of sodium vanillin in root, stem, leaf, flower and whole grass is 1,5,1,5,10.4,5.5,4.7 g% respectively. It is light yellow or yellow green powder, odorless, slightly bitter, soluble in water, alkaline in water, slightly soluble in ethanol, insoluble in ether, chloroform, acetone and other organic solvents.

[pharmacological action] 1

Vanillin sodium (vanillin sodium) has obvious inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Diphtheria Bacillus in vitro (tube dilution method), and also has definite effect on typhoid, paratyphoid A and B, green purulent, Escherichia coli, dysentery (Freund's) and hemolytic streptococcus; higher concentration is bactericidal, lower concentration is bacteriostatic. In vivo test proved that it has a good therapeutic effect on Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice, and can prevent most animals from death.

② Other functions

In mice with chronic tracheitis induced by ammonia water, oral administration of orchid herb decoction (20g / kg) has antitussive effect.

[nature and taste] 1. Nanning medical records: "pungent, warm, non-toxic. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes bitter, slightly pungent and has a flat nature. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, relieving cough and dispersing blood stasis. Treatment of cold, fever, rheumatism, bone pain, pertussis, chronic tracheitis, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, postpartum blood stasis pain, traumatic injury, skin itching, eczema, sore swelling.

① "Yanrou (food) can cure cough. "

② "Lingnan medicine collection record": "dispelling wind and dispersing blood stasis, where postpartum wind or blood stasis pain, to decoct. "

③ "To perspire and dispel rheumatism" is one of the most important contents in Nanning medical records. Take orally to treat cold and malnutrition. The treatment of rheumatism, bone pain and skin pruritus by external washing with decocting water. "

④ "Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resource list": "treating cold and cough. "

⑤ "Hunan Medical Records": "root: treatment of low back pain, food and diarrhea. "

⑥ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "the treatment of irregular menstruation, low back pain, Li Dieda. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] ① for the treatment of cold, fever, rheumatism and bone pain: three to five bucks of orchid herb, fried in water.

② Treatment of traumatic swelling and pain: fresh orchid vanilla tamped on the affected area.

③ Apply fresh herbs to treat eczema or skin itching. (1) Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine

④ Treatment of metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation: small June cold root two to three money, decoction service. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treat cold, headache, sore throat: Orchid grass five money, white English three money. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑥ Treatment of furuncle and swelling: apply fresh orchid and vanilla to the affected area. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑦ Treatment of qi stagnation and stomachache: one or two pieces of dried whole grass, fried in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of postpartum blood stasis pain, falls: Orchid grass, black tiger. Take it in soup or wine. (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II)

[clinical application] 1

Take vanilla and fry. Daily dose: 1 liang for 1-3 years old, 1.5 Liang for 3-5 years old, increasing over 5 years old. 330 cases were observed. Some take 3 doses, the clinical symptoms disappear.

② Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take 1 liang of orchid vanilla and 2 liang of Ilex pubescens, decoct them twice, concentrate them into paste, add proper amount of excipient, and then make them into granules. Take them in boiling water twice for 10 days. 32 cases were treated, 6 cases were markedly effective, 13 cases were improved, and the rest were ineffective. In the course of treatment, generally no obvious side effects.

③ Treatment of pyelonephritis

25% vanillin sodium was injected intramuscularly, 4 ml each time, 4 times a day. 8 cases were observed. 4 cases were cured, 3 cases were improved and 1 case was invalid. The shortest course of treatment was 6 days, the longest was 25 days, with an average of 12 days. No adverse reactions were found in the course of treatment.

Chinese PinYin : Lan Xiang Cao