Wolf tail flower

Wolf tail flower

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Lysimachia langweiensis, Rabdosia langbacao, hongsimao, suanzi (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), chongsui paicao (Chinese economic flora).

[source] it is the whole grass with roots of Primulaceae plant Lysimachia rigida.

[plant morphology] Lysimachia rigida

Perennial herbs, 50-70 cm high, densely pilose throughout. There are rhizomes underground and aboveground, erect, green and sometimes reddish. Leaves alternate or nearly opposite, linear oblong to lanceolate, 6-10 cm long, 8-15 mm wide. Raceme terminal; bracts linear subulate; sepals 5-lobed; corolla white, 5-lobed; stamens 5, base united into tube; pistil 1. Capsule globose, enclosed in persistent calyx. It blooms in summer.

It grows on hillside, grassland, roadside shrub or beach ridge. It is distributed in Northeast, East, central and southwest China, Hebei, Shaanxi and Gansu.

[collection] picked at flowering stage, dried in the shade or fresh.

[taste] sour and bitter, flat.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, slightly sour, pungent, flat. "

② "Selection of Chinese herbal medicine from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai": sour and astringent, flat. "

Functions and indications: regulating meridians, dispersing blood stasis, clearing away heat and swelling. Treatment of irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, blood avalanche, cold, wind heat, sore throat, breast carbuncle, sprain.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence, detoxifying and promoting muscle growth, promoting diuresis and lowering blood pressure. Treatment of irregular menstruation, functional uterine bleeding, unknown swelling, throat pain, lung carbuncle, traumatic injury, fracture, edema, hypertension. "

② Selected Chinese herbal medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai: clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: tamping or powdering.

[taboo] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "pregnant women should not take it. "

[prescription selection] ① for irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea: red silk hair, motherwort three money each, rose flower, Verbena two money each. Take it in water.

② Treat children fever: red silk hair, stove heart soil each three money, white grass root, light bamboo leaf each two money. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of acute lymphangitis: appropriate amount of scarlet silk hair, mash external application.

④ Treatment of sore throat: fresh red silk hair, fresh Aristolochia root each three money. Chopped, add boiling water, mash juice and serve.

⑤ Treatment of breast carbuncle: red silk hair five money, onion white seven. Half of the wine and half of the water.

⑥ Cure dysentery: red silk hair five money. Take it in water.

⑦ Treatment of lumbar sprain, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic injury: red silk hair two Liang. Take it 5-7 days later. 5-10 ml each time, twice a day. (the selected prescription is selected from the selection of Chinese herbal medicine of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai)

Chinese PinYin : Lang Wei Ba Hua