Tomb return

Tomb return

(compendium)

[synonym] tomb head ash (records of Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine), arrow wind (records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] the roots of Patrinia heterophylla and Patrinia scabra.

[plant morphology] Patrinia heterophylla

Herbs perennial, up to 1.5 m tall. Stem cylindrical, nodes distinct, young branches short hairy. The leaves at the base of the stem are large, broadly ovate to ovate, 13-20 cm long and 7-8 cm wide. The apex is acute, the base is cuneate and downward extending, and the edge is obtuse serrate. The base is often pinnately divided, with 1-2 pairs of lobes, obovate lanceolate. The upper leaves are 3-lobed, the bilateral lobes are long ovate, and the central lobes are ovate. Panicle cyme at the top of branches and axils of leaves; inflorescence axis covered with white pubescence; bracts lanceolate, bracteoles nearly reniform, light green; flowers small, bisexual, yellow; calyx tube connate with ovary wall; corolla campanulate, lobes 5, ovate; stamens 4, anthers 2-locular; ovary inferior, 8-locular, style 1, stigma capitate. The fruit is a dry fruit without cracking. The bracteoles are enlarged into wings, membranous, nearly round, with one seed. The flowering period is from September to October. The fruit period is from October to November.

Distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Guangxi and other places.

② Patrinia scabra

Perennial herbs, 20-40 cm high. The stems are clustered, and the upper part of the stem has many branches with nodal lines. Leaves opposite; leathery, pinnately divided, lobes oblanceolate, narrowly lanceolate or oblong, dentate, apical lobes slightly larger than lateral lobes, margin and surface hairy. The cymes are terminal and arranged in corymbose shape; the rachis and pedicel are hairy; the bracts are narrow and intergrowth; the flowers are small, yellow, with 5-lobed corolla; the stamens are 4; the ovary is 3-locular and the stigma is capitate. Fruit winged, ovate or suborbicular, papery, ca. 6 mm in diam., reticulate, seeds in the center.

Wild in the cemetery and wasteland. It is distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and Northeast China.

[collection] collect and dig in autumn, remove the stems, seedlings and soil, and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal materials] ① the dry roots of Patrinia heterophylla are cylindrical, with branches, yellowish brown surface, fine longitudinal wrinkles, round punctate root scars, and sometimes nodular protuberances. It is hard, with yellow and white fracture surface, fracture shape, and thin rays in cross section.

Produced in Shanxi, Hebei, Guangxi.

② The dry roots of Patrinia scabra are irregular cylindrical, with different lengths and diameters of 1-1.5 cm. The outer skin is brown or brown black, which is easy to peel off and turns yellowish after peeling off. The body is light and loose, with radial cracks on the cross section and yellowish brown annular lines on the outer layer. It has a special valerian odor, slightly bitter. It is better to be long, fat and brown.

Produced in Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places.

In Jiangsu Province, the dry whole grass of Ixeris Sonchus was used. The stem is thin and cylindrical, with yellowish to purplish appearance. It is hard and brittle, and its medulla is white. The leaves are shrunk, green yellow to withered yellow. Terminal yellow head. See "Ixeris Sonchus".

[pharmacological action] through preliminary test, Mutouhui preparation has inhibitory and injurious effects on Ehrlich cancer cells in vitro; oral administration to mice with Ehrlich ascites cancer, intraperitoneal injection or subcutaneous injection to mice with Ehrlich solid cancer also has certain curative effect.

[nature and taste] records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine: "the taste is pungent and the nature is warm. "

[Guijing] records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the heart and liver meridians. "

[function and indications] it is used to treat warm malaria, women's collapse, red and white belt, and injuries.

① "Materia medica primitive": "treatment of typhoid, warm malaria. "

② "Henan traditional Chinese medicine manual": "washing feet, treating foot pain. "

③ "Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "astringent liver dampness, hemostasis. It is used to treat women's gangrene of hip and red and white belt. "

④ "Removing blood stasis and detumescence". It's a cure for injuries. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] in the treatment of collapse, under the red and white belt: return to the grave, drink half, twist the new safflower, fry for seven minutes, and take warm clothes when lying down. If the day is near, take one, if it is long, take three. (Dong Bingji's prescription)

Chinese PinYin : Mu Tou Hui