Plow tip

Plow tip

(materia medica seeks the original)

[synonym] taro grass, small wild taro (raw herbal medicine preparation), plow grass (materia medica seeking the original), rat tail (flora of Guangzhou), Pinellia ternata (medicinal plants of Guangxi), plow seven (materia medica of Luchuan), earth Pinellia ternata (folk herbal medicine of Southern Fujian), triangle green, mountain Pinellia ternata, small one legged lotus, tubadu, yaogoudan (main poisonous plants in southern China), taro seven, Chinese medicine Baibu reduction ("Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine").

[source] the whole grass or tuber of Araceae.

Plow tip

Perennial herbs. Tubers subglobose, ca. 1 cm in diameter. Leaves long petiolate; halberd or deep heart halberd shaped, 4-12 cm long, apex acuminate, basal lobes ovate lanceolate to oblong, widely divergent, margin entire or sub3-lobed. The inflorescence stalk is 2.5-5 cm long or longer; the lower part of the spathe is green, tubular, and the tube is 1.5-2 cm long; the upper part expands into an ovate lanceolate, dark purple bract, 12-18 cm long, 4-5 cm wide at the lower part, and sometimes twisted at the upper part; the fleshy inflorescence is dark purple, with ovary sequence, followed by a series of short, conical, erect neutral flowers at the base of the inflorescence, and then separated by 6-8 mm Its appendages are linear, 10-13 cm long. Berries obovate, ca. 6 mm long. It blooms in summer.

I like to live in the open wetland. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[chemical constituents] tubers contain alkaloids and sterols.

[nature and taste] Minnan folk herbal medicine: "bitter, pungent, warm, toxic. "

Functions and indications: dispersing blood stasis, hemostasis, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of traumatic injury, traumatic bleeding, mastitis, treatment of sores, sores, scabies.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "it can disperse big sores, eliminate malice, remove rotten meat and produce new ones, and stop bleeding. For the treatment of fish poisoning, beat the vinegar and boil it. If it's cold, change it. "

② Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "Zhixue San Du. Treatment of breast carbuncle, golden sore bleeding. "

③ Practical Chinese herbal medicine: "detumescence, detoxification, stasis and hemostasis. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, snakehead, tinea, snakebite, traumatic injury, hemangioma. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping or grinding.

[taboo] 1. It is forbidden for pregnant women. "

② Minnan folk herbal medicine: "fresh tubers should be wrapped with food for oral administration, otherwise it will cause blistering of oral mucosa. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: a fresh tuber of Coleoptera, peeled, cut a piece of salt coated vegetable leaf or longan, and take it orally. (Minnan folk herbal medicine) two fresh plow tip whole grass amount, add a little yellow wine, mash apply the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of scrofula: appropriate amount of plough grass, a little salt, a total of mash, apply the affected area. (commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

③ Treatment of Snakehead: fresh tubers on the tip of plow, adjust realgar, mash a little, apply to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: a certain amount of plow grass, mash, apply the wound. (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Guangxi) Eryu touqi, research end, spread the affected area. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of snake bite: fresh plough grass, wash, mash and apply. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of tinea of face and neck: appropriate amount of plough grass, apply vinegar to the affected area. (commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

⑦ Treatment of callose: fresh tubers of plowweed, mashed and applied. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Li Tou Jian