Litchi grass

Chinese Name: litchi grass (compendium)

[category] whole grass

[synonyms] shuiyanger (the preparation of raw herbal medicine), guodongqing, yaomingjing (the collection of experience), fengyancao, laishicao, gedongqing (Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs), xueliqing (Cihang's book of living people), wrinkled scallion (the collection of compendium), toad, wild sesame, Wild Mint, toad, toad (classified herbal medicine), toad (medicinal herbs) Xiaohuoxue, majipao, yejuncai, rugpi Cao, neihongxiao (Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine (6): 571957), Zhangcao, gouxiangla (Chinese medicine plant Atlas), hemp grass, frog grass (collection of common folk herbal medicine), dahonghong, pudishao, genxiahong (prescription of folk herbal medicine in Jiangxi), boar (common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai).

The source of this plant is Saussurea formosana.

[plant morphology] see grass

Biennial erect herbs, 15-90 cm high, many branched. Stem square, pubescent. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 2-6 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, apex obtuse or acute, base rounded cuneate, margin serrate, below golden glandular dots, veins pubescent; petiole 4-15 mm long. Cymes with 2-6 flowers, axillary or terminal, integrated into many round panicle racemes; bracts lanceolate; calyx campanulate, 2.7 mm long, with golden yellow gland spots on the outside, pubescence on the veins, divided into 2 lips, 5 veins on the upper lip, 2 teeth and 6 veins on the lower lip, teeth in an equilateral triangle, top acute; corolla purple, 4.5 mm long, hairy ring on the inner surface of corolla tube, upper lip oblong There are 3 lobes on the lower lip, the middle lobe is heart-shaped, and the lateral lobes are nearly semicircular: 2 stamens are developed at the base of the lower lip, protruding out of the corolla tube, and anthers are 1-locular. Disk extended at front. Nutlets obovate, brown, glandular punctate. The flowering period is May. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows in wasteland or roadside along the river and distributes in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Taiwan, etc.

The root of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest from March to May.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains flavonoids: plantain, ragweed, Eupatorium cuneatum and its 7-glucoside. It also contains phenolic substances, volatile oil, saponins, cardiac glycosides, unsaturated sterols and polyterpenes. Seeds contain fatty oil.

[pharmacological action] litchi herb decoction can prolong the cough latency of mice induced by sulfur dioxide, but it has no antitussive effect, but it can prolong the overturning time of guinea pigs induced by histamine, that is, it has antiasthmatic effect; the volatile oil extracted from Litchi herb, made into emulsion, has neither antitussive nor antiasthmatic effect, if combined with the extract of Populus alba, it has antitussive effect. The ethanol extract can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, koji octadiensis and Bacillus subtilis in vitro. The decoction could inhibit or kill Leptospira in vitro (direct microscopy 1.9 mg / ml, culture 3.9 mg / ml).

It is pungent and cool.

① "The nature is cool. "

② "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "bitter, cold. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, pungent in taste and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: cool blood, promote diuresis, detoxify and kill insects. For hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, ascites, turbidity, sore throat, carbuncle, hemorrhoids.

① "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": treat falls and injuries, remove blood stasis and wash hemorrhoids. "

② Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs: "cool blood, stop metrorrhagia, disperse all carbuncle poison. "

③ "Gangmu Shiyi" and "GeZu Yifang" are used to treat 18 diseases of the throat, such as carbuncle, red bayberry and hemorrhoids. "

④ "Cao Mu Bian Fang": detoxification. Treatment of white bald, scabies, wind ringworm; in addition to foot Shin sore itching yellow water, insecticidal, oil coating. "

⑤ "Classified herbal medicine nature": "it can cure all kinds of long-standing sores, wash hemorrhoids and itch. "

⑥ "Drug chart research": "treatment of damp heat, rubella, itching, kidney wind, detumescence and diuresis. "

⑦ Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi: "decocting with water can cure abdominal distension. "

⑧ "Chinese medicine plant illustrated book": "smash and apply on the navel, in addition to distention ascites. "

⑨ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing lung heat, eliminating rheumatism. Cure cough, dysentery, toothache and prurigo, sore poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 Liang (fresh 0.5-2 Liang), or into pills or powder. External use: tamping, mashing juice, gargling, ear dripping or boiling water washing.

[selection] 1. To treat hemoptysis, hematemesis and hematuria: fresh lychee grass root five to one or two yuan, lean pork two Liang. Stew. (Jiangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of sore throat or milk moth: mash lychee grass, add rice vinegar, wrap it in silk, tie it on the head of the sheath, and point it into the throat several times. (save the bitter sea)

③ Treatment of double single moth: snow green a grip, pound juice half a tea clock, boiling water, spit out phlegm; if no phlegm, spit out chicken feathers. If the mouth is dry, use salt soup and vinegar soup to quench thirst. Avoid vegetables and vegetable oil. (jixiaofang)

④ Treatment of toothache caused by wind fire: it is contained in the mouth of leprosy.

⑤ Treatment of ear pain: ear heart irrigation pus: mangzicao tamping juice ear drops.

⑥ Treatment of hemorrhoids, stool, oral white blisters, Zouma chancre; a gallnut. Through a hole, dry the paralytic grass Kang, beat it into powder, fill it with seal, calcine it on the fire, grind the powder, add borneol, and mix sesame oil on the affected area. (4) Chongqing herbal medicine is published below.)

⑦ Treatment of hemorrhoids: snow green juice, stir fried Huaimi for the end, persimmon pound, such as Tung big pills. Each take three money, snow green fried soup. (Cihang Living Book)

⑧ Treatment of hemorrhoids: lychee grass one, two (or plus seven plum). Fry in water, smoke first, then wash. Also treat prolapse anus. (Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine (6): 571957)

⑨ Treatment of rat sores: five or six pieces of holly, boiled with crucian carp, removed grass and fish, drink juice several times. (Holly juice from experience Collection)

⑩ To cure redness, swelling and carbuncle: mash fresh litchi grass with distiller's grains and apply it to the affected area; or dry it in the sun and grind it into powder and apply it with chicken egg white. (Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine (6): 571957)

(11) early treatment of mastitis: one or two roots in one snow. Decoct the wine in half and apply the medicine residue on the affected area. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine) two pieces of fresh lychee leaves, knead soft and then plug the nose, such as the right side mastitis plug the left nostril, the left side plug the right nostril. 20 minutes each time, twice a day. (Xuzhou, selection of new medical therapies based on single prescription)

(12) treatment of scabies and various kinds of strange itches: smash the tender pointed leaves of leprosy and apply the juice. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

Treatment of falling injuries: one or two litchi grass, mash juice, take with rolling sweet wine, its residue pestle rotten, apply the wound. (Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine (6): 571957)

(14) treatment of snake bite, dog injury and tetanus: hold litchi grass, about three Liang, two bowls of wine, fry a bowl of clothing, take sweat, effective. (Yi Jian Fang for health)

Treat Baijiu: green grass in the snow and white wine. (collection of compendium)

(16) treatment of panic: litchi grass juice for half an hour, water flying over cinnabar for half a minute, and take it evenly. (collection of medical prescriptions)

Treatment of infantile malnutrition: put litchi grass juice into a tea cup. If you can't see a soft liver of a chicken, drill several holes with a silver needle and soak it in the juice. The juice floats on the liver and then put it on the rice pot to smoke the cooked food. (collection of medical prescriptions)

(18) treatment of red and white dysentery: two pairs of leprosy grass (whole grass with flowers), one or two of Modou grass, one or two of Guolu yellow. Fried in water, three times a day; now swelling, plus land elm, Ailanthus altissima root skin each one or two. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

[clinical application] ① treatment of vaginitis and cervical erosion

Take 1 jin of fresh litchi grass, wash and chop it, add 6-7 Jin of water, boil for 10 minutes, and then filter to form a washing agent; take another Jin of fresh litchi grass, wash and chop it, add 1000 ml of water, boil it to pieces, put it into 2 layers of gauze to extrude the juice, and then filter with 6 layers of gauze, and concentrate to 500 ml. During the treatment, the vagina was flushed with irrigating agent, and then the concentrated agent was infused into the cervix of vagina with dry cotton ball. Once a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, 2-3 days interval for the second course of treatment. 441 Cases were observed, including 140 cases of vaginitis and 301 cases of cervical erosion. After one course of treatment, 82 cases (63.7%) of vaginitis and 67 cases (28.4%) of cervical erosion were cured; in the second course, 33 cases (25.6%) of vaginitis and 72 cases (30.5%) of cervical erosion were cured; in the third course, 14 cases (10.9%) of vaginitis and 97 cases (40.1%) of cervical erosion were cured. A total of 129 cases of vaginitis (92.13%) and 236 cases of cervical erosion (78.65%) were cured. Those who were not cured also improved to varying degrees. Three months after the cure, 19 cases of vaginitis were reexamined, and no recurrence was found, only 2 cases of vaginal mucosa had mild congestion, but no conscious symptoms; 27 cases of cervical erosion were reexamined, and 3 cases had different degrees of recurrence, but the conscious symptoms were very light.

② Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Observation of various preparations: yixiancao tablet: remove the roots of litchi grass, crush it, sift it to powder, use 2 jin fresh grass (remove the roots) to decoct the concentrated juice and 1 jin dry powder, rub it into granules and press it into tablets, each tablet weighs 0.5g. 5 g each time, twice a day. Erxiancao injection: take the fresh product and make it into an injection containing about 1.4g crude drug per ml. 5ml twice a day, intramuscular injection. Three squeeze juice boiling agent: take 500 grams of fresh grass (root removed), mash and squeeze juice; add 250 ml water to the residue, boil to about 100 ml, remove the residue, mix the two juice, then heat and boil to cool. It's a 5-day dose for one person. Take it twice a day. Four fresh grass distillation boiling agent: fresh litchi grass collected in autumn (root removed), first distilled and then decocted, and then mixed two times. 40 ml per person per day (equivalent to 2 fresh grass), 2 points

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