Eclipta

Eclipta

(yinpianxinshen)

[synonym] jinlingcao (qianjinyueling), lianzicao (tangbencao), Eclipta philoxeroides, hanlianzi (Bencao tujing), bailanlian (lvyanbencao), husuntou (the complete collection of things that must be used at home), Liancao (Diannan Bencao), mozoucao (medical zhengzhuan), Mo tobacco, Mocai, zhuyacao (compendium), baihuacao, Wedelia chinensis (Lingnan caiyaolu) 》）, mojicai (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine), Impatiens balsamifera (collection of medicinal materials), jietouwu, didluowu (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine manual), shuifengxiancao (Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi), heimozao (Guangxi Zhi Yao Zhi), heitoucao, guchimo (Guangxi Zhi Yao Zhi), shuihanpeng, frozen grass (Hunan Yao Zhi), jiejiejiewu, tiaoyucao, holiday touhuazai, etc There are three kinds of herbs: Raohua, huotancao, jinsima, zizhicao, and Jiangxi folk herbal medicine.

[source] it is the whole herb of chanchus Argus, a Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] ChanChang (tangbencao)

Annual herbs. Stems weak, erect or creeping, up to 30-60 cm, hairy. Leaves opposite, subsessile, linear oblong to lanceolate, 4-10 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, base cuneate, apex short pointed or obtuse, entire or slightly dentate, both sides densely covered with white hairs. Inflorescence capitate, axillary or terminal, pedicled; involucre green, ovate to broad campanulate, bracts few, 2-row, coarsely hairy; receptacle flat, linear scales, with a few glossy flowers and most tubular flowers on the receptacle; glossy flower female, about 2-row, narrowly linear, developed or not developed, white, entire or 2-toothed, ovary elliptic and flat, tubular flowers bisexual, fully developed; inflorescence glabrous Corolla 4-lobed, lobes ovate, glabrous, stamens 4, anthers around style; ovary elliptic and flat, style columnar, stigma 2-lobed. Achene yellowish black, oblong and flat, ca. 3 mm long, apex glabrous. Knead its stems and leaves, black juice out. It blooms in summer. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows on fields, roadsides, streams and wet ground. It is distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc.

[collection] the whole grass was harvested in summer and autumn, and the sediment was removed, and then dried in the sun or in the shade.

[herbal medicine] the dried whole grass is covered with white hairs. Stem cylindrical, ca. 30 cm long, ca. 3 mm in diameter: greenish brown or purplish red, longitudinally ribbed. Leaf blade curled, shrunk or broken, greenish brown. The top of the stem has a head like inflorescence, which is mostly fruity and has many black granular fruits. After soaking in water, rubbing its stems and leaves, it is black. It is slightly fragrant, light and salty. It is better to have green color and no impurity.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.

[chemical composition] it contains saponin 1.32%, nicotine about 0.08%, tannin, vitamin A, chanchangin, a variety of thiophene compounds such as α - terphenyl methanol and its acetate, 2 - (butyrynyl) - 5 - (vinyl ethynyl) thiophene, 2 - (butyryl) - 5 - (4-chloro-3-hydroxybutynyl-1-yl) thiophene, 2 - (4-chloro-3-hydroxybutynyl-1-yl) - 5 - (pentylene-1,3-yl) thiophene, acetic acid (butene-3-yne-1-yl) biphenyl) Thiophene methyl ester, etc. Yehanxiangju lactone, demethylxiangju lactone, demethylxiangju lactone-7-glucoside.

[processing] clean impurities, remove residual roots, wash thoroughly, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

Sweet and sour, cool.

① Tang materia medica: "sweet and sour, flat, non-toxic. "

② "South Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "cold in nature, salty in taste. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels,

① "Into the kidney, liver, stomach, intestines and intestines. "

② "To match the materia medica": "into the foot Shaoyin meridians blood points. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood, stopping bleeding, tonifying kidney and benefiting Yin. For hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia, blood dysentery, knife wound bleeding, early white hair, diphtheria, drenching, vaginal itching.

① Tang materia medica: "it is mainly responsible for blood dysentery. Acupuncture and moxibustion sore hair, red blood can not stop the application; juice coated hair eyebrow, fast and complex. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "discharge pus, stop bleeding, dredge small intestine, apply all sores and silkworms?"?. "

③ "Diannan Materia Medica": "strengthen teeth, black beard, wash nine kinds of hemorrhoids. "

④ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "black hair is beneficial to kidney yin. "

⑤ "Materia medica said:" treatment of drowning and kidney deficiency into Laolin. "

⑥ "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "treat falls and injuries, manage the top of wine, remove phlegm, kill, stop itching, dry water. "

⑦ Classified herbal medicine: hemostasis, tonifying kidney, annealing, detumescence. It can be used to treat gonorrhea and diabetes. "

⑧ "Treatment of eye diseases and pannus membranaceus". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 0.3-1 Liang; boil cream, mash juice or put into pill or powder. External use: tamping, grinding, scattering or tamping.

[should avoid] it should not be taken when the spleen and kidney are deficient and cold.

"It is forbidden for those with weak stomach, loose stool and kidney qi deficiency and cold. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat hematemesis in a basin: Herba Ecliptae, children's stool, Huimo spring juice, and lotus root Festival soup. (essential preparation of raw herbs)

② Cure hematemesis: fresh early Lotus grass four Liang. Mash children's casual clothes; or add raw cypress leaves, especially effective. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

③ Treatment of cough and hemoptysis: fresh Eclipta 22. Mash the juice and take it with boiling water. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of epistaxis: a grasp of fresh Eclipta. After washing, mash the juice, stew it in five wine cups each time, take it warm after dinner, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of urination and drowning: Plantago asiatica, Jinling asiatica. On two flavors, pound a natural juice, drink it on an empty stomach. (true story of Medicine)

⑥ For the treatment of intestinal wind and visceral poison, the blood is not enough: Eclipta seed, baked on tile, ground. Take two yuan each, drink rice. (jiacang experience prescription)

⑦ Treatment of dysentery: Eclipta or two. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

⑧ Treatment of bleeding caused by knife wound: Smash fresh Eclipta and apply it to the injured area; grind the dried one and sprinkle it on the injured area. (Hunan medical records)

⑨ Tonifying waist and knees, strengthening muscles and bones, strengthening kidney yin, black moustache hair: Ilex seed (viz. Ligustrum lucidum fruit, picked on the day of winter solstice) no matter how much, dried in the shade, steamed with honey and wine, after one night, wipe off the skin with thick bags, dried in the sun as the end, stored in tile bottles, Eclipta (picked on the day of summer solstice) no matter how much, mashed juice, boiled cream, and pre medicine as pills. I'd like to take a shower. (Erzhi Pill in yifangjijie)

⑩ Treat migraine: drip ChanChang juice into the nose. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

(11) treatment of red and white belt: Eclipta or two. Fried with chicken or broth. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

(12) treatment of turbidity: five money for Eclipta, three money for Plantago, five money for Yinhua and five money for Smilax glabra. Take it in water. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

Treatment of women's vaginal itching: four pairs of modoucao. Take it in decocting water; or add a little Uncaria root and decocting juice, add a little alum and wash it outside. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

(14) treatment of kidney deficiency toothache: Herba Ecliptae, baked, for the end, on the gums. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

To treat blood drenching: two pairs of dry lotus and two pairs of banana root (fine file). On the second flavor, coarse pound sieve. Five daggers for each. One and a half cups of water, fry until eight minutes, remove dross, take warm, two days. (hanlianzi Decoction in Shengji Zonglu)

(16) treatment of diphtheria: two to three pairs of Eclipta, mash, add a little salt, rinse with boiling water to remove the residue. Spit out saliva after taking it. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

[clinical application] ① treatment of diphtheria

Take the roots, stems and leaves of fresh Eclipta, wash them with cold boiled water, mash the juice and add the same amount of honey; children take 100 ml orally four times a day. At the same time, according to the general situation, symptomatic treatment. For those complicated with bronchopneumonia, penicillin and streptavidin should be added; for those complicated with myocardial damage, absolute bed rest, intravenous injection of hypertonic glucose solution, vitamin C and hormone (or energy mixture) should be performed; for those with severe obstruction and asphyxia symptoms, tracheotomy should be performed in time. At first 92 cases of mild diphtheria were observed, 84 cases were cured and 8 cases died; then 37 cases were observed, 35 cases were cured and 2 cases died. About half of the cured patients' body temperature returned to normal within 24 hours, and the rest returned to normal within 48-72 hours. Except for 18 cases of tracheotomy, the rest of them were unobstructed within 2-3 days. The congestion of nasopharynx pseudomembrane and tonsil usually disappeared within 3-5 days. Most of the smears turned negative in 2-6 days. The white blood cell count became normal with the decrease of body temperature. Alternanthera philoxeroides should be fresh and stored for a long time.

② Treatment of tuberculosis hemoptysis

Take whole Herba Eclipta and rhizome of Festuca arundinacea to make injection, and each milliliter contains 0.5g of morning lotus and 0.5g of rhizome of Festuca arundinacea. Intramuscular injection 2-3 times a day, 4 ml each time; for patients with massive hemoptysis, 4 ml of injection can be added into 20 ml of 50% glucose for intravenous injection, 2-3 times a day. The medication time is generally 4-5 days or slightly longer. The side effects include shivering and high fever, which disappear after sweating, mostly due to the impure preparation.

③ Treating dysentery

Take 4 liang of Eclipta philoxeroides and 1 liang of sugar, and fry them in water. Generally, it takes effect after taking one dose, and can be cured after taking three to four doses without side effects.

④ Prevention and treatment of paddy field dermatitis

Take Eclipta rubs and rubs the lower part of hands and feet until the skin is slightly black. After it is slightly dry, you can work in the paddy field. Wipe once a day before and after work to prevent hand and foot erosion. It can also be used for those that have been eroded. According to more than 2000 cases of trial, it has a certain effect.

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the classic of materia medica: "ChanChang is good at cooling blood. If the hair is white, the blood is hot; if the teeth are not fixed, the kidney is deficient and the heat is present; if the blood is cooled and the blood is replenished, the hair becomes black, and the teeth are fixed. Therefore, ancient and modern white grass, when this is the victory. In this classic, if blood dysentery, acupuncture and moxibustion are the main causes, and the blood flood can't be stopped, it should be applied to the patient

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