Chinese astilbe

Chinese astilbe

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonyms] xiaoshengma (a collection of Materia Medica), Shuhuo (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals), maweishen, shanhuaqi, agenba, tiehuotong (Guizhou herbal medicine). Red cohosh, maweishen, yekaima, huma.

[source] it is the whole plant of Saxifragaceae.

Astilbe

Perennial erect herbs, 45-60 cm high, rhizome thick. The basal leaves are 2-3 cycles and 3-compound leaves. The leaflets are ovate to long elliptic ovate, 3-10.5 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. The apex is sharp, the base is round, the two sides are asymmetric, the edge has sharp double serrations, and both sides have setae, especially on the veins. The stem is erect, 30-50 cm high, with scaly hairs at the lower part and brown villous at the upper part. The flowers are almost sessile, forming narrow panicles; calyx tube is shallow cup-shaped, 5-lobed, yellow; petals are 5, white or purple, about 4 times as long as the calyx; stamens are 10, filaments are cyan purple, anthers are cyan, beige after maturity; carpels are 2, free, base united, ovary semi superior. Follicles with many seeds. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is August.

Most of them grow in the sparse forest or grass on the hillside. It is distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc.

The plant of the same genus is very similar to this species, but the plant is larger, up to 3 feet high. Leaflet apex suddenly narrow for long pointed head, inflorescence glandular hair, flowers white or light red. It has the same effect as Astilbe. It is distributed all over the south of the Yangtze River.

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

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains hydrocyanic acid. Flowers contain quercetin. Astilus contains 2-hydroxyphenylacetic acid.

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is cool in nature, bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "the nature is flat and the taste is pungent. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, clearing heat and relieving cough. Treatment of wind heat, cold, head and body pain, cough.

① "Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu": "(root) detoxification. It's not easy to make children's bath soup with leaves. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing away heat, stopping perspiration, treating headache, neck pain and lumbar pain. "

③ Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, relieving exterior, eliminating phlegm, relieving cough, and accumulating perspiration. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 5-8 yuan; or soak in wine.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind heat and cold: maweishen Wuqian, simmer water and take it. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

② Treatment of tuberculosis, hemoptysis, night sweat: horsetail ginseng, land bone skin, Jianjing medicine, white flower Peucedanum each five money. Simmer water clothes, three times a day. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

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