Peucedanum praeruptorum

Peucedanum praeruptorum

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

[synonyms] corydalis and niujiaomo (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine), Saposhnikovia divaricata, pseudosaposhnikovia divaricata and fennel (Chinese desert medicinal plants), and elesen zhaorigudasu (Mongolian name).

[source] it is the root of Ferula rigida.

[plant morphology] ferula rigida, also known as sand fennel.

Perennial herbs, 20-100 cm high. The roots are thick. Stem erect, base with fibrous sheath, branched, pale. The leaves are mostly rhizomatous, glabrous, ovate to triangular, 4-20 cm long, 2-3 pinnately cleft, and the final lobes are wedge-shaped to obovate, 1-3 mm long and 1 mm wide, hypertrophic, divaricate, often 3-lobed, with coarse teeth or lobes; the petiole is 5-15 cm long, with short petiole and expanded sheath. Compound umbel; pedicel 15-30 cm long; without involucre or 1-2 pieces; umbrella 7-15, nearly equal; several small involucre, strip, as long as flower, rough or absent; pedicel many; flower yellow. Suspensory fruit oblong, 10-13 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, flat, glabrous; fruit stalk 12-20 mm long, lateral ribs wide, with corky wings. The flowering period is from May to August. The fruit period is from July to September.

On fixed sand mound and sandy ground. Distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places.

The seeds of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes.

[collection] when the new seedlings are sent out, dig them, remove the aboveground parts and fibrous roots, wash them and dry them in the sun.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, cool.

① "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": "Gan, Ping. "

② Medicinal plants in desert areas of China: "bitter and pungent, slightly cold. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior symptoms, clearing away heat, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Treatment of cold, fever, headache, pneumonia, tracheitis, cough and asthma, chest tightness, tonsillitis, lymphatic tuberculosis.

① "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": "clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence, relieving pain, anti tuberculosis. Treatment of bone tuberculosis, lymphatic tuberculosis, abscess, tonsillitis, intercostal neuralgia. "

② Chinese desert medicinal plants: "antipyretic, antitussive, expectorant. Treatment of cold, fever, headache, tracheitis, cough, wheezing, chest tightness, lobar pneumonia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan (large dose 0.5-1 Liang).

[selection] ① for intercostal neuralgia, flash waist bifurcation: gangqianhu Er Liang. Decoct in water and take it twice. (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of bone tuberculosis: gangqianhu Er Liang. Take it in water for two months. (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Sha Qian Hu