Rhubarb

Rhubarb

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)

[synonym] Rheum tangense (Chinese medicinal plant records), Rheum tubosum and Rheum taiense (northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual), Rheum yuense and Rheum ziense (Datong medicinal plant manual).

[source] it is the root and rhizome of Polygonaceae rhubarb.

[plant morphology] rhubarb

Perennial herbs, up to 1 meter high. The rhizome is thick with yellowish brown surface. Stem stout, erect, with fine longitudinal furrows, glabrous, usually unbranched, hollow. The basal leaves have long stalks; the leaves are ovate to ovate round, 10-13 cm long, apex obtuse, base cordate, margin undulate, and slightly hairy below; the stem leaves are small, with short stalks or few stalks, and the stipules are long ovate, dark brown, and amplexicaul. Panicle terminal, flowers small, most, white green; bract small, fleshy, with 3-5 flowers inside; pedicel below the middle of a joint; perianth 6 pieces, ovate, 2 round, outer round 3 pieces thick and small; stamen 9, ovary triangular ovate, style 3. Achene 3-ribbed, winged, base cordate, with persistent perianth. It blooms in summer.

It grows in stone gap, grassland and hillside. Distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places.

[collection] in spring and autumn, they were dug, sliced and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China: "bitter, cold. "

[function indications] dirty heat, defecate, break accumulation, line blood stasis. It can treat constipation due to heat, jaundice due to dampness and heat, carbuncle swelling and toxin, bruise and pain due to bruise and bruise, mouth sore and erosion, and soup fire injury.

① "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "diarrhea excess heat, break stagnation, line blood stasis. Treatment of jaundice, constipation, amenorrhea, carbuncle swelling, toxic, burns. "

② "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": "diarrhea excess heat, defecation, breaking stagnation, line blood stasis. (raw with Jun, fried with slow, fried charcoal hemostasis). It is used to treat stool heat knot, cheek rash, carbuncle inside and outside, bruise injury, soup fire injury, blood stasis, swelling and pain, hematemesis and bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or grind powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[taboo] medicinal plants in desert areas of China: "it should not be used before and after birth due to body deficiency. "

[selection] ① treatment of jaundice and constipation: Radix et Rhizoma Rhei and Radix Artemisiae Scopariae. Take it in water. (Datong Medical Plant manual)

② Treatment of icteric hepatitis (damp heat jaundice): a mountain of rhubarb two money, eight money Artemisia, Gentianaceae three money. Take it in water. Two mountain rhubarb four money, Yinchen two, Wenjing five money, Plantago five money. Take it in water. Twice a day for half a month.

③ Treatment of acute appendicitis: rhubarb, honeysuckle, dandelion, Cortex Moutan, peach kernel, toosendan. Take it in water.

④ Treatment of acute intestinal obstruction: rhubarb, Fructus aurantii, Magnolia officinalis, semen Raphani, mirabilite, peach kernel, red peony. Take it in water.

⑤ Acute pancreatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis: Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Radix Bupleuri, Radix Scutellariae, dandelion, Radix Aucklandiae, radix curcumae, Radix corydalis. Take it in water.

⑥ Treatment of traumatic injury, blood stasis pain: rhubarb, angelica, etc. Four yuan per serving, twice a day, mixed with wine. "

⑦ Treatment of radiation-induced skin injury: rhubarb, cold water stone, red stone each equal to 2% borneol, a total of research end, mixed scattered on the affected area. (2) medicinal plants in desert areas of China

⑧ Treatment of aphthous ulcer erosion: rhubarb, alum each equal, grind the end of rub, salivation. (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Shan Da Huang