Rubia stem

Rubia stem

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] Rubia cordifolia (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai).

[source] stems and leaves of Rubiaceae. For plant morphology, please refer to the article "Qiancao root".

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried stem is withered green with rough and fine burr on its edge. It is brittle and easy to break, and its section is square. My heart is white and loose. There are barbed hairs on the middle rib of petiole and leaf back. Many leaves fall off.

Produced in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shanghai suburbs and Zhejiang and other places.

In Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai, this product is also called "dragon of the mountain".

[nature and taste] 1. Lvyan materia medica: "cool, nontoxic. "

② "Suzhou native medicine": bitter, cold. "

[function indications] hemostasis, blood stasis. It is used to treat hematemesis, blood avalanche, traumatic injury, wind obstruction, low back pain, carbuncle poison and swelling.

① "Lvyan materia medica:" it can promote blood circulation and treat hematochezia and other diseases. "

② Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "promoting blood circulation, treating lumbago. "

③ Suzhou native medicine: "promoting blood circulation, promoting blood circulation. It can cure carbuncle poison and damage. "

④ Collection of medicinal materials: "attack blood, treat Qi block. "

⑤ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "hemostasis, blood harmony, blood circulation. It can treat wind obstruction, cold dampness and jaundice. "

⑥ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can be used as medicine, tonic or regulating menstruation. Treatment of rheumatic pruritus, itching sores, fecal itching, boiling water and washing. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh); or soak in wine. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[selection] 1. For the treatment of febrile disease, hematemesis and women's HAEMORRHEA, the meridians are black: two pairs of Rubia stem. Boiled water clothes. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② After the treatment, the muscles and bones ache: dry Qiancao head, eight money each time, combined with pig's foot Festival stew. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Treatment gangrene: Rubia fresh leaves, slightly salt, mash, apply gangrene sore head. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

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