Celastrus angustifolia

Celastrus angustifolia

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Limulus Limulus, two leaf sweet potato, shiteng, horseshoe gold, horseshoe grass (Fujian folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of tachypleus tridentatus.

Limulus Limulus

They are perennial and vines. The stems and leaves have white milk, and the plant body is purplish red. The rhizome is Diandian shaped. The stem is smooth and thin. Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic or round, about 3 cm long and wide, apex 2-lobed, entire, base rounded or apical, both sides smooth and glabrous; petiole 2-3 cm long, base slightly sheathed, many axillary buds. Flowers axillary; sepals 5, green; corolla funnel-shaped, white or purplish red; stamens 5. Capsule ovoid, containing yellowish brown seeds. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

On hillsides, fields or ditches. Distributed in Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

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

[nature and taste] folk herbal medicine in Southern Fujian: "hard work, mild cold. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "entering the liver and spleen meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, removing dampness, removing carbuncle and dispersing knot. Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia, carbuncle, swelling and toxin, treatment of sore, hemorrhoids and leakage.

Fujian folk herbal medicine: "Xiaoyong Sanjie, Qufeng dehumidification, detoxification Yiqi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping or burning, and then mixing.

[prescription selection] ① for arthritis: Sweet Potato with two leaves for one hundred and twenty-five yuan, drink and drink, decoct in half. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of carbuncle and gangrene: two leaves of sweet potato, brown sugar (or winter honey) amount, mash external application. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of carbuncle, gangrene, sores, nameless swelling: two leaves of sweet potato one to two liang, wash, decoct soup, brown sugar oral. (Quanzhou materia medica)

④ Hemorrhoids bleeding: two leaves of sweet potato one or two, pig large intestine one jin, stew service. (Quanzhou materia medica)

Chinese PinYin : Ma An Teng