Ploughweed

Ploughweed

(Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] zijinsuo, Viola yedoensis, xiaotianshuiqie (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), danbeicao (a folk herb in Nanjing), Sanjiaocao, plowtip, tiecao (a folk herb in Jiangxi), dingcao and Viola yedoensis (a common folk herb in Zhejiang).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of the Violaceae.

[plant morphology] ploughweed

Perennial herbs. Taproot thick short, white. Leaves tufted, long ovate to triangular ovate, 2-6 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, base cordate, margin obtuse serrate, lower part purplish, both sides and petiole slightly hairy or glabrous; stipules white, long pointed, with sparse linear teeth; petiole 2-8 cm long, upper end narrowly winged. Pedicel 6-12 cm long, with 2 linear bracteoles in the middle. Flowers bisexual, calyx 5, lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, appendages often obtuse teeth; petals 5, purple, obovate elliptic, about 1.5 cm long, spur about 7 mm long; stamens 5; ovary superior, 1-locular, stigma triangular convex. Capsule oblong, lobes furrowed, 6-10 mm long. The flowering period is April. The fruit period is from May to August.

Growing in the mountains, roadside sunny or semi shady place. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian and Taiwan.

This crystal is used as medicine of Viola in East China. See "Viola" section.

[collection] harvested in summer, fresh or dried.

[nature and taste] Zhejiang folk herbs: "slightly bitter, cold. "

[function indications] clearing heat and detoxifying. It is used to treat carbuncle, rash, rash, breast carbuncle, traumatic bleeding.

① Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "root: treating fire disease, the same as indigo.". "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "clearing heat, detumescence, detoxification. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh); mash juice or add pills. External use: tamping or grinding.

[prescription selection] 1. Treating the back of a lump: smash the grass root on the back of a lump, mix it with sugar or red pepper and apply it to the affected area, and use the surface spray around it. (Nanjing folk herbs)

② Treatment of carbuncle, gangrene and sores, nameless swelling poison: fresh plough grass, fresh chrysanthemum leaves of the same amount. With mash, apply to the affected area; or fresh plough grass, add a little sugar, tamp can also, change once a day. At the same time, mash the juice and take it in a glass. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ For carbuncle swelling, sores, rashes, mastitis and finger sores: mash and apply with fresh plow grass; or dry and grind in the sun, and apply with egg white, once or twice a day.

Wutong boiling water: plough head grass research, rice paste for pills, such as Wu Tong Zi big, each pill nine pills, boiled water.

⑤ Treatment of postpartum blood stasis pain in women, such as stab: fresh plow grass one or two, chopped, two eggs with stirring, add oil slightly fried, and then add water fried.

⑥ For snakebite, mash fresh ploughweed and apply it to the affected area once or twice a day. (3) Jiangxi folk herbal medicine

⑦ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: appropriate amount of Coleoptera, Oxalis, mash, external application of the affected area, gauze pressure bandage; or single use of Coleoptera tamping. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑧ Treatment of bittern poisoning: fresh plough grass mash juice two glasses, boiled water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

[clinical application] ① treatment of diphtheria

Take 1 liang of Coleoptera and 5 yuan of Lysimachia parvifolia, wash, chop and mash them, mix them with boiling water and appropriate amount of sugar to form a paste, filter them with gauze, take the juice orally, 2-3 times a day until recovery. 13 cases were treated, all of them were effective. The longest course of treatment was 10 days and the shortest was 4 days. Fasting is greasy.

② Treating furuncle and carbuncle

Take fresh plowshare and a small amount of Oxalis, wash and mash it like mud, and apply it locally. In the treatment of 30 cases of furuncle, if the general inflammation is limited and the systemic symptoms are not obvious, the inflammation can disappear and be cured after 1-2 times of dressing; if there are systemic symptoms, the symptoms can also be alleviated or disappeared after application. In more than 80% cases, the top of the wound was broken due to the limitation of inflammation after 1-2 times of dressing, showing a pus head; at this time, the pus head can be taken out, the wound drainage, and then plough grass tamping: after the wound granulation grew, plough grass dry powder was used to spread, and vaseline gauze was applied externally. Change dressing once a day, usually 2-4 times. During the treatment, avoid eating male chicken, carp and female pork. It has been reported that 19 cases of traumatic infection were treated by tamping the affected area with ploughweed only, and most of them were cured within 2-3 days.

③ Treatment of corneal parenchyma inflammation and serpentine corneal ulcer

Wash and pound the fresh plough grass into paste, add 2-4 times of normal saline, mix well, and filter repeatedly with sterilized gauze. The filtrate was applied to the eyes once every 1-2 hours with eye pad. It can also be mixed with a little fresh chicken protein and plough grass paste, or dried plough grass powder and egg white, 1-2 times a day. Seven cases of corneal parenchyma inflammation were treated with Coleoptera liquid eye drops first, and then with Coleoptera paste and egg white external application after improvement. Results 5 cases were cured and 2 cases were improved. The recovery time of visual acuity was mostly within 20-70 days, and the extinction time of corneal opacity was within 30-120 days. Creeping corneal ulcer, mostly with plough grass paste and egg white external application. 19 cases were treated, except 3 cases with small white spots, the rest were restored to the original state.

In addition, the compound injection made of Coleoptera, chrysanthemum indicum and Forsythia suspensa has a good effect in the treatment of tonsillitis, pneumonia and pelvic inflammatory disease.

Chinese PinYin : Li Tou Cao