Gomphrena

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] bairihong, qianjinhong, bairibai (Chinese medicinal plant records), qianribai, qiannianhong (Jiangsu medicinal plant records), luzongju (Luchuan materia medica), danshuihua (Nanning medicinal plant records), boiling Shuiju (Guangxi Medicinal Plant records), changshenghua (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai), Dragonfly Red and spherical (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the inflorescence or whole grass of Amaranthaceae.

[plant morphology] qianrihong

Herbs annual, ca. 50 cm tall. The stem is stout, hairy, the branch is slightly quadrangular, the node is bigger, slightly purplish red. Leaves opposite, shortly stipitate, elliptic to obovate, 5-10 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base cuneate, entire, coarsely hairy on top, white hairs on bottom, ciliated on margin. The inflorescence is terminal, lavender, crimson or white, globose, with 2 leaflike bracts at the base; each flower has 2 membranous bracts, triangular lanceolate, with light serrated margin; bracts are purple, pink, light white, covered with compound perianth; perianth 5, linear, needle shaped, covered with long white hairs outside; stamen 5, filaments fused into tubular, apex 5-lobed, pink; style linear, Stigma 2-lobed, short. The utricle is round. Seed shaped. The flowering period is from July to October.

It is cultivated all over the country.

[collection] harvest from July to September and dry in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dry inflorescence is spherical or oblong, usually solitary, 2-2.5 cm long and 1.5-2 cm in diameter. It is composed of many flowers. At the base of inflorescence, there are two leaflike triangular involucres, green. The back of involucre is densely covered with slender white soft hairs, and the ventral hairs are short and sparse. Each flower has two membranous bracts, reddish. The air is weak and tasteless. It is better to be pure white, bright red or purplish red with large and even flower head.

Produced in Jiangsu, Fujian, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places.

[chemical composition]: it contains naringin I, II, III, V, VI, Amaranthin and isoamaranthin.

Sweet and smooth.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "Gan, Ping. "

② "Medicine science": "sweet and light, flat, slightly salty taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing liver, dispersing stagnation, relieving cough and asthma. Treatment of head wind, eye pain, asthma, cough, dysentery, pertussis, infantile convulsion, purgation, sore. For chronic or asthmatic bronchitis, pertussis.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "dispelling wind, calming liver, reducing fever, improving eyesight. "

② "Nanning medicine annals": "Qinggan Mingmu, Sanjie Xiaoying. Since the beginning of the treatment, liver heat, eye pain, high blood pressure, headache. "

③ "Inflorescence: cooling blood, detumescence, relieving spasm and cough. For pertussis, for sore swelling and pain. Folk treatment of irregular menstruation. The whole plant is washed out with boiling water to cure the boils and sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, cost 1-3 yuan; whole herb 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of head wind pain: three money for a thousand days, seven money for a thousand days. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

② Treatment of asthma: ten thousand day red flower heads, boiling water, a small amount of yellow rice wine, three times in a row. (Chinese medicine and plant records)

③ Treatment of dysentery: ten thousand day safflower orders, fried in water, washed into a small amount of rice wine. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

④ Cure urinate disadvantageous: thousand day safflower order one to three money, decoct take. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

⑤ Treatment of infantile wind epilepsy: thousand day safflower ten, dry seven. Add boiling water to stew. (Fujian folk herbal medicine,)

⑥ Treatment of liver heat in children: seven to fourteen thousand day red flowers, fried in water. Or add wax gourd sugar with stew. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of children's night cry: five thousand day red flowers, three cicada clothes, seven points, fried in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of chronic tracheitis

100% and 200% injections were made from the whole herb of qianrihong. Intramuscular injection of 2 ml was given once a day. A course of treatment was 10 days, with an interval of 5 days. 120 cases were observed with 200% injection, the total effective rate of five courses was 93.3%, and the near control rate was 68.8%; 125 cases were observed with 100% injection, the total effective rate of four courses was 73.6%, and the near control rate was 11.2%. Two groups were simple type, phlegm dampness type, as well as mild, short course of disease, the curative effect is higher. Among them, 200% injection has good effect on cough, phlegm and asthma, while 100% injection has no obvious effect on asthma. Side effects: about 10% of the cases had dry mouth after medication, most of them disappeared spontaneously in the continuous treatment. Before and after treatment, some patients were examined for liver function and urine, and no obvious abnormality was found, indicating that it seems to have no toxic effect on liver and kidney function.

500 cases were treated with Qianri honghuaxu tablet (each tablet contains about 3.2g crude drug, 2 tablets each time, 3 times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment, two courses in succession). The average effective rate was 27.9%, and the total effective rate was 77.1%. 754 cases were treated with qianrihongquancao tablets (the same content as the inflorescence tablets, 3 tablets each time, 3 times a day, the same course as above), the average effective rate was 32.1%, the total effective rate was 81.8%; 174 cases of bronchial asthma were treated with qianrihongquancao tablets, the obvious effective rate was 47.1%, the total effective rate was 88.5%. The main effect of the tablet seems to be antiasthmatic and expectorant, but it has no obvious anti-inflammatory effect.

In addition, 40 cases of bronchial asthma and asthmatic bronchitis were treated with acupoint injection of 30% Qianri honghuaxu injection, 0.3ml each time. The results showed that 6 cases were controlled and 28 cases were improved in the near future. Commonly used acupoints: Feishu, Dingchuan; heavy asthma plus Tiantu, phlegm plus Fenglong, suffocation plus Tanzhong. During the injection, attention should be paid to the increase of heart rate and acupuncture sickness. The weak can be decocted with qianrihong 3-6 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Qian Ri Hong