Pogostemon cablin

Pogostemon cablin

(Emei medicine plant)

[synonyms] xuejianchou, Xuefurong (essential preparation of raw herbal medicine), yeshishan, yementha, renshacao, kuyaocai, pseudoperilla (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), ruminant, fangzhikucao (Guangzhou army Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine), feixingcao (Fujian traditional Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole herb of Pogostemon cablin.

[plant morphology] Pogostemon cablin

Annual herb, 30-70 cm high. The stem is tetragonal, the lower part takes root lying on the ground, the upper part is erect, with branches, and the tender branches are sparsely hairy. Leaf blade ovate or oblong, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, papery, apex short, margin with irregular thick obtuse teeth, base cuneate; upper green, bald, with short hairs on main veins; lower light green, with sparse hairs on veins, gradually falling off when old, with glandular points; petiole 1.7-3 cm long. Axillary and terminal racemes of open branches, 2.5-5 cm long; petiole with short hairs; bracts lanceolate; calyx campanulate, persistent, 5-lobed, upper lip 2-lobed larger, lower lip 3-lobed, front end all pointed, surface with long sticky hairs and glandular dots, larger when fruiting; corolla reddish; stamens 4, prominent, anthers 2-locular, ovoid; pistils 1, stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets 4, round, diameter about 1 mm, yellowish brown, surface with fine wrinkles. The flowering period is from June to August. The fruit period is from August to October.

It grows in wasteland, field edge, roadside and grass. Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian and other places.

[collection] harvest from July to August.

[chemical composition] it contains phenols, amino acids, organic acids and sugars.

It is pungent and cool.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine in nature": it is light in taste and cold in nature. "

② Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, slightly pungent, slightly warm. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of hematemesis, intestinal wind blood, trauma, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, fire.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine": cool blood, detoxify heat, remove blood stasis and generate new, treat pressure injury, apply hemorrhoids, treat snake bite, eliminate intestinal wind and blood, cook meat; wash white blisters and ulcers, eliminate mastitis. "

② Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, cooling blood. The treatment of lung, vomiting, injury and urination. "

③ Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "treating boils and swelling. "

④ Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, detumescence and detoxification. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 1-2 Liang); mash or grind. External use: fumigation or tamping with boiling water.

[selection] 1. Treatment of Dieda: shanhuoxiang, jiucengta, touguxiao, heixinjiang, decocting. (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II)

② Treatment of testicular swelling and pain: Patchouli leaves one to two money, research, red wine service. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of rheumatic arthritis pain, Liuhuo (filariasis caused by lymphangitis): Shan Huoxiang decoction, first smoked and then washed. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of lung carbuncle, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bleeding: Patchouli (fresh) one to two, rock sugar one or two, decoction.

⑤ Treatment of cold, fever and cough: Patchouli (fresh) 1-125 money, fried in water.

⑥ Treatment of rabies ah injury: Shan Huoxiang (fresh) 1 jin, add a little water mash Jiaozhi, a stew service. (4) the manual of Chinese herbal medicine is published in Fujian Province.)

Chinese PinYin : Shan Huo Xiang