Carapace root

Carapace root

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[source] it is the root of rhamniaceae.

[plant morphology] Caragana, also known as iron fence (grass and trees are the prescription), is a kind of fruit, which can be divided into three parts: young, male tiger thorn, stone thorn, black thorn, thorn plate, dog bone, and scale hammer?.

Shrubs, up to 3 m high. The young branches and young leaves are more or less fluffy and then glabrous; the branchlets have straight and sharp spines, which change from stipules to leaves. The leaves are simple, alternate, petiolate, ovate or ovate elliptic, 3-5 cm long and 2.5-3 cm wide, with rounded base, obtuse or slightly concave apex, dark green and glossy on the top, fine hairs along the veins on the bottom, obtuse teeth on the edge, and 3 veins. Cyme axillary; flowers small, yellowish green; calyx 5-lobed, pubescent, lobes triangular; petals 5-spatulate, shorter than calyx; stamens 5, opposite petals, filaments yellowish green; pistil receptacle connate, stigma 3-lobed, ovary 2-3-locular, 1 ovule per locule, hidden in the disk. Drupe discoid, surrounded by embolic thin wings, 12-18 mm in diameter; peduncle 1-1.5 cm long. The flowering period is July. The fruiting period is August.

It is often cultivated as a hedge. It is distributed in Taiwan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, etc.

The leaves (cotyledons) and fruits (fruits) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] from October to November, the roots were collected and sliced to dry.

[herbal medicine] the dry root is thick in the upper part, divergent in the lower part, with fine longitudinal wrinkles on the surface, and a few fibrous roots remain, which is hard.

Produced in Sichuan, Guangxi and other places.

Bitter and smooth.

① "Nanning drug records": "astringent, flat, slightly acid. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is flat in nature, bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

③ Guizhou herbal medicine: "cold in nature, bitter in taste. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and dampness, disperse stagnant blood and detoxify. It is used to treat laryngodynia, intestinal wind, lower blood, rheumatic pain and traumatic injury.

① "Treatment of laryngodynia" in "textual research on the names and facts of plants". "

② Classification of herbal medicine: "it can treat all traumatic injuries, disperse blood stasis and detumescence. "

③ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals:" in addition to cold and blood circulation, published detoxification, detumescence. Treat the pain of heart and abdomen. "

④ Guizhou herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and dampness, treating fatigue and detoxification. "

[usage and dosage] take orally; decoct soup, 2-3 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh); or soak in wine. External use: dip in wine and rub.

[selection] 1. For the treatment of lower blood due to intestinal wind: one to two pairs of semen Majiazi are taken in the same pot as pork. (records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatic pain: macera root soaking wine, oral and external wipe. (records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of labor: iron fence, Phellodendron root, black bone vine each five money. Take a kilo of wine, one or two at a time. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

④ Cure rabies bite: iron fence, black bamboo root, coal fruit each one or two. Fry in water with a little wine. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Ma Jia Zi Gen