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Chinese Name: Lei Dang (Kaibao materia medica)

[category] whole grass

[synonyms] LiDang (shiyixinjing), Herba Cistanche (tangbencao), Herba Cistanche (rihuazi Bencao), rabbit crutch (Dongbei Yaozhi), single root herb (Hebei medicinal materials), rabbit leg (Liaoning Economic flora).

[source] it is the whole grass and root of orobanceae.

[plant morphology] 1

Annual parasitic herb, 15-40 cm in height, white villous in whole plant and dense in inflorescence. Rhizome thick, fleshy, ground stem thick, single, dark yellow brown. Leaves alternate, scalelike, lanceolate, apex acuminate, 8-20 mm long. The flowers are densely integrated into terminal spikes, accounting for 1 / 3-1 / 9 of the stem; bracts 2, ovate lanceolate, apex sharp; calyx 5-lobed, sepals lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, about 1 / 2 of the corolla; flowers blue purple, 1.5-2 cm long, lower part tubular, upper part slightly curved, with 2 lips, upper lip wide, top often concave into 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes oval; stamens 4, 2 strong; pistil 1 The ovary is superior, the style is shorter or equal to the crown, the stigma is swollen and yellow. Capsule 2-lobed, ovate elliptic, with many seeds. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to July.

It grows on fixed sand dune and hillside grassland, and parasitizes on the roots of Artemisia plants in Compositae. Distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai, Ningxia, Yunnan and other places.

② Orobanche

Parasitic herbs, 10-15 cm high, covered with brown short hairs. Leaves scaly, ovate. Inflorescence densely spicate; bracts ovate; corolla yellow or white, glandular hairs on the edge of lobes, style slightly longer than corolla. Capsule ovate elliptic. The flowering period is May.

The habitat is the same as that of the former species. Distributed in Northeast, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places.

[collection] harvest from April to June and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the whole grass is dry and covered with white hairs. The stem is fat, fleshy, brown or dark brown on the surface, with longitudinal wrinkles, and the top of the stem is enlarged. Scaly leaves yellowish brown. The inflorescence is dark yellow brown, with slight air and bitter taste. It is better to be dry, fleshy, thick and reddish brown.

Produced in Northeast, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shanxi and other places.

The whole grass of Orobanche alsatica kirsch1. Is used as a kind of Orobanche in Tibet.

[chemical constituents] the fresh tuber of O. rapum genistae thuill. Contains orobanoside.

[nature and taste] Kaibao materia medica: "sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons. Treatment of kidney deficiency, waist and knee cold pain, impotence, spermatorrhea.

① "Kaibao Materia Medica": "the main man has five labors and seven injuries. It can nourish the waist and kidney, make people have children, and remove the wind and blood. "

② Investigation report on medicine and plant in Kunming: "to treat malaria. "

③ "Hebei medicinal materials": "treatment of mental disorder. "

④ "Records of Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine": "treatment of spermatorrhea, cystitis. "

⑤ "Liaoning commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "kidney. It is used to treat cold pain of waist and knee, impotence and spermatorrhea; external use of foot washing is used to treat infantile diarrhea for a long time. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1.5-3 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: wash feet with boiling water.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat Yang disorder, you should take two Jin, pound and sift them, and then drink them with a bucket of wine. (heart mirror of food medicine)

2. Treating kidney and cold lumbago: 52 for liquor and two kg for baijiu. In the jar, simmer for 30 minutes. Take one cup after dinner every night. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of enteritis and diarrhea

Take 1 liang of whole herb of zihualiedang and fry it in water for half an hour to get 1000 ml of decoction. Soak feet for external use, 10 minutes each time, once a day. More than 1000 cases were observed, all of them showed different degrees of curative effect.

Chinese PinYin : Lie Dang