Dendrobium officinale

Dendrobium officinale

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] Guoshangye, yiguayu, Leymus chinensis, Brucea javanica, lingzhijiao, shiyangmei, wanniantao, shizaozi (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), Qinglan (Chinese medicine plant Atlas), zishangye, guazilian, shilongshiwei, qixiantao (Hunan medicine records), xiaosuzilan (Guangzhou army's Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine), stone mosquito, stone Wonderland, soybean whip, loushanglou（ Jiangxi herbal medicine), stone lotus seed, root seed (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual), stone bean, stone dogwood, single leaf stone jujube (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole herb of Dendrobium officinale.

[plant morphology] Dendrobium officinale

Evergreen perennial herb. Stem filiform creeping, with filiform fibrous roots. Pseudobulb oval, like grain, with longitudinal groove, green, fleshy, 1 leaf on top. The leaves are oblong or obovate, 1-3cm long, thin and narrow at the base, green or yellowish green, thick, leathery, with concave midvein. From the side of pseudobulb, the short stem with scale like sheath is extracted; the stem tip has small white flowers, with a diameter of about 4 mm; the outer perianth is 3 pieces, the upper one is ovoid, short pointed, and the lateral two pieces are twice as long as the upper one, ovoid elliptic; the inner perianth is wide elliptic, the edge is sheared, the lip is short and small, ovate, thick, and connected with the protuberance of the base of pistil; the pistil is short and thick. It blooms in summer.

Epiphytic on rock surface or tree trunk. Distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and dry in the sun.

Sweet and cool.

① Guizhou folk herbs: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "sweet, cool. "

③ Jiangxi herbal medicine: "cold in nature, sweet and pungent in taste. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica; entering lung and stomach. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, promoting body fluid and nourishing stomach. Treatment of lung heat, cough, labor, hemoptysis, upset, thirst, loss of appetite, irregular menstruation, infantile convulsion, traumatic injury, sores.

① "Guizhou folk medicine collection": "upper deficiency tuberculosis cough, but also the treatment of wind heat cough. "

② "Hunan medicine annals": "clearing away heat, removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Treatment of rheumatic pain, irregular menstruation, dizziness pain, dry cough, toothache. "

③ "Mindong Materia Medica": "clearing away heat and trouble, generating fluid and relieving thirst. It is used to treat upset, thirst, lung heat, cough, adverse defecation, dizziness and sore. "

④ "Moistening the lung and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and stomach" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of tuberculosis, cough, hemoptysis, chronic tracheitis, cough, pneumonia recovery, chronic sore throat, chronic gastritis, lack of gastric acid, loss of appetite, spermatorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of wind heat and cough: two coins from the upper leaves of fruit, three coins from the old bag. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of pertussis: fruit leaves one or two, Coptis one money, honey five money. Take it in boiling water.

③ Treatment of tuberculosis cough: fruit leaves five money, white ear five money, half a catty of stewed pork. Take soup and meat once or twice, and take three doses. (1) the following prescription is Guiyang folk herbs.)

④ Treatment of infantile convulsion and epilepsy, wind fire cough hoarse: fresh wheat Dendrobium 12.5 money to 22, plus a pig pancreas, rock sugar stew service. (Mindong materia medica)

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury, hemoptysis: fresh wheat Dendrobium decoction. (Hunan medical records)

⑥ Treatment of facial rash: a handful of wheat, add a little ice sugar with pestle, apply to the affected area. (Mindong materia medica)

⑦ Cure sore poison: Mai Hu one or two. Fried water, brown sugar as a guide, oral. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑧ Irregular menstruation: fresh wheat Dendrobium one or two, rose spend five money. Take one scrambled egg with sugar. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑨ Treatment of toothache caused by wind fire: one to two pairs of fresh Dendrobium. Fry in water, mix salt and take a little. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Mai Hu