Mopan grass

Mopan grass

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonyms] jinhuacao, tangguacao (preparation of raw herbs), erxiangcao (Lingnan herbs collection record), maocaozi, mopanzi (Luchuan materia medica), mopengcao (Nanning medicinal records), Indian Abutilon (yinglahan plant name), niuxiangcao (Guangzhou army Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine), Baima (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Mopan grass

It grows perennial, erect, branched, subshrub like herbs in a year, 0.5-2.5 meters high, all covered with gray pubescence. Leaves alternate, long petiole; ovate to broadly ovate, 3-9 cm long, 2.5-7 cm wide, apex short, base cordate, margin irregularly crenate, both sides covered with gray pubescence. Flowers solitary, leaf axils, yellow, 2-2.5 cm in diameter; long petiole, with nodes near the top; calyx discoid, 5-lobed, green, densely covered with gray pubescence, lobes broad ovate, short pointed; petals 5, more than 2 times longer than calyx; stamens numerous, filaments base connected into a short tube; ovary superior, carpel 15-20, arranged in whorls. The capsule is round like a millstone, about 1.5 cm high and 2 cm wide, with 15-20 mericarps and a short awn at the top. Seeds reniform, stellate puberulent.

Born in sand, wilderness, or roadside. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

The roots and seeds of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in summer and autumn, the whole grass was cut and dried.

[herbal medicine] the dry whole grass is about 2 cm thick, with branches, reticulate wrinkles on the outer skin, light gray brown, like a powder, and soft and smooth when touched. The leaves are wrinkled, light grayish green, with light color on the back, a few of them are light yellowish brown, pubescent, flexible by hand, not fragile on the surface, sometimes with flowers or fruits in the axils. Qi is weak.

It is produced in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids, organic acids and sugars. Flavonoid glycosides are: gossypioside, gossypioside, cyanidin-3-rutinoside.

[nature and taste] 1. In the essential preparation of raw herbal medicine, it is sweet in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "leaves: sweet and astringent, slightly warm. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, removing dampness, resuscitation and promoting blood circulation. Treatment of diarrhea, gonorrhea, tinnitus, deafness, hernia, carbuncle, urticaria.

① "The nature of raw herbal medicine preparation": dispersing wind and heat. Tinnitus, deafness, stewed chicken, meat can also be. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "invigorating the spleen, stopping diarrhea, boiling yellow sugar with mile. "

③ "Lingnan medicine collection record" says: "it can promote clear and turbid, open orifices and activate blood circulation, and tamp hands and carbuncle sores. "

④ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "treatment of small intestinal colic, kidney deficiency, urine tingling or turbid urine, mumps, bone steaming, fatigue and heat. "

⑤ "Clearing away heat and reducing turbidity" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual. Treatment of cold, high fever, mumps, deafness, tinnitus, thyroid abscess, spermatorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or stewed meat. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] for allergic urticaria: one or two dried whole herbs of Mopan grass, appropriate amount of lean pork, stewed in water. (selected new therapies and Chinese herbal medicine, Xiamen)

Chinese PinYin : Mo Pan Cao