Centipede on the floor

Centipede on the floor

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] jingucao, xiaoshenjin, guoshanlong (a textual research on the names and facts of plants), Metasequoia glyptostroboides (a botanical Dictionary), papaya (flora of Guangzhou), shizicao, longxucao, shujincao (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), caojiao, maoziteng (Fujian folk medicine), shiziteng, qingjincao, songjincao (Guangxi Chinese veterinary medicine plant), shoujicao (Luchuan herbal medicine) 》）, centipede herb, Sabina vulgaris (Nanning medicinal records), Fenghuang Shenjin herb (Jiangxi traditional Chinese Medicine), Lujiao herb (Minnan folk herbal medicine), Shenjin herb (xiqian folk herbal medicine), Lijin herb (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), Cunjin herb, Cuncun herb (Chongqing herbal medicine), alloy herb (Hunan medicinal records), longjiaoteng herb (Fujian traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of Lycopodiaceae.

[plant morphology] Lycopodium pendulatum

Perennial herbs. The fibrous roots are white. The main stem is erect, with secondary stolon at the base, 30-50 cm long or longer. The leaves are sparse, spirally arranged, usually bent downward, the lateral branches are mostly bifurcate, erect or drooping, the leaves on the branches are dense, linear subulate, 2-3 mm long, entire, usually curved upward. Sporangium spikes are single at the top of branchlets, rectangular or cylindrical, 8-20 mm long, yellowish, often drooping; sporophylls are imbricate, broadly ovoid, apex acuminate, margin with long eyelashes; sporangium is round, growing in leaf axils. The spores are tetrahedral and reticulate.

It grows on the edge of mountain and stream or on the shady and wet stone under the forest. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, South China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest from July to September, remove the soil impurities and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried stems and leaves are yellow green. The stem is round, about 8-9 cm long, with polygonal lines and many branches. The stem has light brown round root, thin and firm. It is brittle and easy to break. The section is light yellow with obvious white pith. The stem is densely covered with small lanceolate scalelike leaflets. It tastes bitter. The color is green and the quality is clean.

In Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, this product and the whole grass of the same genus Lycopodium are called extensor grass, and used equally. See "stone pine".

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains a variety of alkaloids, such as elephantine, hydroxyelephantine, nicotine, flavonoid glycosides, β - sitosterol, stigmasterol, rapeseed sterol, and acetate esters of triterpenoids, kaempferol, kaempferol, 21 epikaempferol, formonol, etc.

[pharmacological action] the whole plant can inhibit some bacteria in vitro. In Africa, decoctions are used to treat diarrhea and dysentery.

Sweet and smooth.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "sweet slightly bitter, flat.". "

② "Wenxinshi, drug free". "

③ Chongqing herbal medicine: "slightly bitter with astringent, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the liver, spleen and kidney. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, relaxing tendons and collaterals, activating blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Treatment of rheumatism, pain, numbness, hepatitis, dysentery, rubella, red eyes, hematemesis, bleeding, hematochezia, injuries, soup, fire burns.

① "It's a medicine for harmonizing muscles and bones. Children's Decoction for soup bath, no sore poison, wet itching. "

② "Antitussive" in Guizhou folk medicine collection. He also treated rheumatism and numbness. "

③ Fujian folk herbal medicine: "diuretic, heat clearing, anti-inflammatory and dampness removing. Treat hepatitis, jaundice, dysentery. "

④ "Luchuan Materia Medica": "Qinggan, Mingmu, anti-inflammatory, detoxification, hemostasis. Treatment of wind fire eye pain, chicken blind, rat bite, hematemesis, bleeding. "

⑤ "Removing blood stasis and generating new life" in Nanning medical records. Treatment of women with amenorrhea and deficiency cold cough, gastrointestinal cold pain. Wash night sweats and urticaria with boiling water. "

⑥ "Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine": "Shujin Huoluo, diuretic hemostasis. Oral for rheumatoid arthritis pain, rubella block, jaundice, stool blood. Topical use of burning powder, treatment of soup fire wound sores. "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treat sprain and chicken claw wind. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: decocting, washing or dressing.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

[formula selection] 1. To treat traumatic injuries and to harmonize muscles and bones: the stems and leaves of Shenjincao Wuqian. Take it by frying. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of deficiency tuberculosis, cough, hematemesis, adverse urination, spermatorrhea: one or two centipedes on the floor, one or two boar bellies (remove turbidity and wash). Mix with water, simmer for two hours. Once a day. Take it three to five times in a row. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of hematemesis: one or two centipedes on the floor. Mash it and take it with boiling water. (Hunan medical records)

④ Treatment of hepatitis, jaundice: fresh ground centipede 1 to 22. Decoct once or twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Cure dysentery: fresh ground centipede one to two liang, brown sugar half Liang. Take it with water, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of snake wound: Shenjincao baking powder, sesame oil and borneol applied to the affected area. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

⑦ Cure urinate disadvantageous, dream to leave to lose essence: fresh shop ground cochlea centipede one or two, fresh sea Jinsha grass one or two. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Pu Di Wu Gong