Niu Xixi

Niu Xixi

(Jiangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

It is a Chinese herbal medicine.

[source] it is the root of Rumex batianus, a Polygonaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Rumex batianensis

Perennial herbs, 1-1.5 m high. The roots are stout and yellowish brown. The stem is erect and strong, with one or more branches. The basal leaves have long stalks, long ellipses, the base is round or microcardiate, 15-30 cm long, entire or undulate; the stem leaves are small, oblong lanceolate, subsessile, stipules sheath membranous, tubular. Large panicle terminal and axillary; flowers numerous, dense; perianth piece 6, light green, 2-layered, persistent, inner layer 3, enlarged when bearing fruit, base with nodular processes: stamen 6; ovary 1, style 3, stigma cleft. Achenes ovate triangular, 3 mm long, brown, enclosed in perianth. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

Born in low mountains, roadsides, grasslands or ditches. Distributed in Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other places.

[collection] it can be excavated all year round. Used raw (dried or fresh) or after making wine.

Bitter and sour, cold.

① "Gansu Chinese herbal medicine manual": "bitter, sour, cold. "

② "Selection of Chinese herbal medicine from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai": "sour, bitter, cold, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: heat clearing and detoxification, blood activating and hemostasis, defecation and insecticidal. It is used to treat dysentery, hepatitis, chronic enteritis, traumatic injury, internal bleeding, thrombocytopenia, constipation, carbuncle, scabies, purulent sores and Tang fire injuries.

① "Gansu Manual of Chinese herbal medicine": "clearing away heat and toxin, killing insects and relieving constipation. It can cure scabies, ringworm and constipation. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening intestines and defecating. Treatment of traumatic injury; internal bleeding, purpura, soup fire injury, axillary sores, ringworm, appendicitis, chronic enteritis, constipation. "

③ "Shanganningqing Chinese herbal medicine selection": "clearing away heat and toxin, diminishing inflammation and swelling, stopping bleeding. For metrorrhagia, gastric ulcer bleeding, thrombocytopenia, dysentery, chronic hepatitis, carbuncle and sore. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping, vinegar grinding or grinding.

[selection] ① for internal bleeding and constipation: no change of three to five yuan for Shengjin. Take it in water.

② Treatment of tinea: Jinbuhuan fresh root mashed or with vinegar grinding juice, smear on the affected area.

③ Treatment of soup fire injury: gold does not change one or two, pig hair one or two (charcoal storage), a little borneol, a total of fine grinding. Sesame oil dressing. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)

[clinical application] ① treatment of thrombocytopenia

Take beef slices, dry in the sun, 15 grams a day, decoct in water, take it three times; or take it orally in tablets made of flour, take it for 2 weeks to 2 months. 30 cases were treated, the total effective rate was 90%, and the primary cases were more effective. The bleeding symptoms disappeared in most patients after treatment, and the platelet count was less than 100000 before treatment, and increased to more than 100000 after treatment in 22 cases. It is suggested that niuxixi can promote the production of platelets from bone marrow and resist various factors of harmful platelet production. However, it was also considered that although niuxixi had obvious hemostatic effect, there was no increase in platelet count.

② Treatment of various hemorrhagic diseases

The effective rate of functional uterine bleeding, ulcerative hematochezia, pulmonary and bronchial hemoptysis, urinary tract bleeding, epistaxis, aplastic anemia bleeding was more than 90%. The dosage forms used were decoction, tablet, injection and powder. Each injection is 2ml, containing 4G of crude drug. Intramuscular injection is 2-4ml 2-6 times a day. The powder is made of beef and squid bone powder for local use. No adverse reactions were found either orally or by injection. It is clinically believed that niuxixi can stop bleeding and has sedative effect, and the effect of injection seems to be better than that of oral administration.

③ Treatment of psoriasis

All the 116 patients were treated with niuxixi, and the effective rate was 70%. Treatment: intramuscular injection of 2-4 ml of 100% niuxixi injection, 1-2 times a day, 14 days as a course of treatment, if necessary, two courses of treatment can be given continuously. At the same time to vitamin C, nicotinamide or sedative oral, topical 4% boric acid ointment, mercuric salicylic acid ointment, nitrogen mustard ointment. Most of the effective cases began to stop itching 5-14 days after injection. The appearance of new rash decreased, the inflammatory reaction of rash erythema decreased, the infiltration and scale gradually thinned, and the area reduced. At the same time, it was found that niuxixi had a higher curative effect on psoriasis vulgaris than other types; it had a better effect on spot type; it had a better effect on progressive stage than quiescent stage; it had a higher curative effect on incipient patients but a lower curative effect on chronic recurrent patients; it had a better therapeutic effect in summer, but it could still control the natural process of the disease to a certain extent in winter. No serious toxic reaction was found in the course of treatment, so it is considered to be an alternative new drug for the treatment of forging chip disease. However, relapse still exists in the effective cases, and the effective components and therapeutic principles need to be further clarified.

④ Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Please refer to the section "cow ear rhubarb".

Chinese PinYin : Niu Xi Xi