Daughter tea

Daughter tea

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] yanguozi (Guizhou folk medicine), huangchagen (yellow tea root) and nuerhong (Sichuan common Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root or branch of Ziziphus jujuba.

[plant morphology] Zizyphus jujuba

Shrub, only 1.5 meters high. Branchlets numerous, alternate, densely pubescent when tender. Single leaf alternate; dimorphic: one elliptic or suborbicular, 0.5-1 cm long; one elliptic lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, apex acuminate, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin sparsely serrulate, glabrous above, hairy below midrib and petiole; petiole 1-2 mm long; stipules slightly spiny, flowers small, 1-2 in axils, 5-cardinal, pedicel very short, outside There is pubescence on the side. Drupe ovoid or subglobose, 5 mm in diam., black, carpel 1 mm long. Seeds 3, elliptic. The flowering period is July. The fruiting period is October.

Born in rocky places of low mountains and hills. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] tender branches and leaves were collected from April to may, and roots were collected in autumn and winter.

[flavor] Guizhou folk medicine: "cool in nature, astringent and slightly bitter in taste, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Treatment of hematemesis, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, dysentery.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "clearing heat, cooling blood. "

② In Nanchuan's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, it is said that "mashing down and applying sore poison". "

③ "Clearing away heat and accumulation, promoting blood circulation and dredging meridians". It is used to treat food retention, stagnation of liver meridian, irregular menstruation, hematemesis, labor injury, cough and Qi pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 Liang (fresh 1-2 Liang).

[prescription selection] ① for hemorrhoids bleeding: fresh daughter's tea root is one hundred and twenty-five yuan, fresh thorn's old bag root is one or two yuan, and pomegranate fruit is one or two yuan. Stew pork half a catty, put more soup, less salt, stew after slag, eat three times a day, one rice bowl each time. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Cure dysentery, collapse belt: daughter tea one or two to one two five money. Decoct in water and take twice (Nanchuan Handbook of common Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Nv Er Cha