Moohe

Moohe

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] huangyaozi, suogudan, laohanqiu (Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine annals), zhushiqi, liangganqi, laoshepan, tianpengsan, hongtiao Qi, mayiaozi, hongyaozi, jinmaogou (Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine annals).

[source] it is the rhizome of Polygonum odoratum.

[plant morphology] guidengqing, also known as shuiwulong.

Herbs perennial, up to 90 cm tall. Rhizome short cylindrical, thick, with scaly hairs. Stem glabrous, unbranched. Basal leaf 1, stem leaf about 2, palmately compound, leaflets 3-7, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 8-27 cm long, 3-9 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base cuneate, margin irregularly double serrated, glabrous above, hairy below along vein; petiole 16-32 cm long, only 3 cm near inflorescence, sheath embracing stem at base. Panicle terminal; pedicel short, hairy; calyx tube shallow cup-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes ovate, white or yellowish; corolla absent; stamens 10, filaments short; style 2, detached. Capsule, 2-beaked, split between beaks. The seeds are numerous. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is August.

Born on the sunny hillside of deep mountains. It is distributed in the middle of China.

[collection] harvest in autumn. After digging out, remove the stems, leaves and fibrous roots, wash, slice, dry or dry.

[medicinal material] the dry and complete rhizome is flat cylindrical or rod-shaped, with a length of 20-30 cm, a diameter of 3-6 cm, and many bends. The surface of the cork is brown, with transverse and longitudinal wrinkles; it has brown scales, especially dense at the top, sometimes hairy; and there are scattered fibrous roots or traces after removing the fibrous roots. Most of the products have been cut horizontally or vertically into pieces, about 1cm thick; the section is reddish brown, dry and uneven, with protruding dots arranged in concentric rings, with powder and white crystals. Odorless, bitter and astringent. It is better to be dry, large and red brown in section.

Produced in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Hebei, Gansu and other places.

[chemical composition] fresh rhizome contains 18% starch and 20.1% sugar; dry rhizome contains 42.5-51.5% starch and 47.5% sugar. The rhizome also contains anthraquinone glycosides, cardiac glycosides and tannins. The leaves contain tannins.

[pharmacological action] the 10% extract of Sinomenium sinense has broad-spectrum antiviral effect in vitro. The primary monolayer cell culture of human embryonic kidney can inhibit adenovirus type 3, enterovirus (poliomyelitis type II, coxsackie A9 and B5, Aike 9) and herpes simplex virus; the monolayer cell culture of golden hamster kidney can also inhibit Japanese encephalitis virus (jingweiyan 1).

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is flat in nature, sour and astringent in taste, and non-toxic. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes astringent and slightly sweet, and its nature is flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, stopping bleeding and promoting muscle growth. It is used to treat damp heat, dysentery, long-term diarrhea, white turbidity, leucorrhea, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, bleeding, stool bleeding, sore poison and golden sore.

① Emei medicine plant: "cure sore poison. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "astringent bowel, stop dysentery, treat damp heat dysentery. Long diarrhea, white, leucorrhea. "

③ "Records of Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine": "promoting blood circulation, hemostasis, promoting muscle growth, relieving pain. It is used to treat diarrhea, vomiting, vomiting, hemoptysis, women's collapse and golden sores. "

④ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it is used to treat traumatic bleeding, hematemesis, bleeding, metrorrhagia, fecal bleeding, dysentery, irregular menstruation, uterine prolapse, prolapse, hemorrhoids, soup fire injury, goiter. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang). External use: tamping or grinding powder mixing.

[formula selection] 1. Treatment of dysentery due to damp heat: Mohe, purslane and Allium macrostemon. Take it in water.

② It is not only used to cure dysentery for a long time: Mohe, pomegranate peel, Agrimonia pilosa, Aucklandia, lentils and sea cucumber. Take it in water.

③ To cure white turbidity and bring down: moohe, shilianzi, Euryale ferox, miliaria, Verbena, baiguogen, Rosa laevigata, plantain. Take it in water. (selected prescriptions from Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals)

[clinical application] ① treat dysentery and diarrhea

Each tablet weighs 0.5g, which is equivalent to 1.5g of the original crude drug. Take 2-3 tablets three times a day. In 214 cases of dysentery, 138 cases (64.4%) were cured after 2-3 days of medication, and 898 cases (69.5%) were cured after 486 cases of diarrhea.

② Treatment of uterine prolapse, vaginal wall prolapse

Apply guidengqing ointment directly to the affected area, once a day. After 7-14 days of external application, 27 cases were cured and 41 cases improved. The effective rate was 62%.

③ Treatment of various eczema and prolapse, hemorrhoids, etc

External application of guidengqing ointment, once a day. 17 cases of eczema, 37 cases of prolapse and hemorrhoids, 6 cases were cured, 18 cases were improved, 13 cases were ineffective.

Chinese PinYin : Mu He