Vicia sativa

Vicia sativa

(records of medicinal plants in Northeast China)

[synonym] perennial chaocai (important forage cultivation), luodouyang, Shandou, shandoumiao, Ratoon grass vine, douwanwan, laodouyang (domestic forage plant), shanheidou (northeast medicinal plant record), Tougucao, grass vine (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] the tender stems and leaves of Vicia sativa L.

[plant morphology] Vicia sativa

Perennial herbs. Stem climbing, quadrangular, 0.5-1 m high, each part of the plant is sparsely pilose. Stipules semisagittate or half halberd shaped, with a large tooth in the middle and few irregular teeth; double pinnate compound leaves, 4-6 pairs of leaflets, with divergent tendrils at the end of leaf axis; leaflets elliptic or oblong elliptic, 15-35 mm long, 6-12 mm wide, apex obtuse, or emarginate, apiculate, base rounded, entire, membranous to leathery, usually with few hairs above It's obviously gray below. Inflorescence axillary; pedicel nearly equal to calyx; flowers red purple, blue, or blue purple; calyx short tubular to bell shaped, hairy, upper sepal triangular, significantly shorter than lower sepal, lower sepal lanceolate or triangular conical; flag petal obovate, apex emarginate, or rounded; wing petal slightly longer than keel, nearly equal to flag petal; keel petal apex slightly narrow, nearly triangular. Pods, oblong rhombic. Seeds subglobose. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from August to September.

Born on grassland, hillside, roadside and bush. Distributed in Northeast and Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Henan, Shandong and other places.

[collection] from July to September, the tender stems and leaves on the upper part of the plant were harvested and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry stem is tetragonal, brittle and easy to break. The leaves are double pinnate compound, mostly curly and shrunken, with tendrils at the tip of leaf axis. The remaining florets are blue or purple, with occasional pods, brown or dark brown, containing black seeds. The air is weak and the taste is light.

It is produced in Northeast China.

It is widely distributed in the whole grass of Vicia sativa and Vicia pseudoxiangensis. It is used as a bone penetrating grass in most areas of Northeast China.

[nature and taste] 1. Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China: "sweet, bitter, warm. "

② "Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation, relaxing tendons and relieving pain. Treatment of rheumatic pain, flash contusion, nameless swelling and toxin, scrotal eczema.

① "Treatment of heat toxin" in Northeast medicine Zhi. Soft and strong. For external use, it can wash rheumatism, wind pain and poisonous sores. "

② Jilin Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation to relieve pain, detoxifying and drying dampness. "

③ "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "Shujin Huoxue, Qufeng Zhitong. It is used to treat lumbocrural pain, Kaschin Beck disease, arthralgia, numbness of muscles and bones, sprain and contusion, flashback and bifurcation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan (fresh 1-1.5 Liang). External use: fumigation with boiling water or mixed application with grinding powder.

[selection] 1. Treatment of rheumatic pain: pea and Acorus gramineus in proper amount, and fumigation with boiling water.

② Cure unknown swelling poison: Mountain vetch appropriate amount. Grind fine powder and apply with wax.

③ Cure scrotal eczema: Mountain wild pea, prickly ash, moxa leaf each 3 money. Smoked and washed with boiling water once a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine was selected)

Chinese PinYin : Shan Ye Wan Dou