Asarum sibiricum
(Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album")
[synonym] panshancao, Shanshu (Guangxi medical plant directory), tuxixin (Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album").
[source] it is the whole plant of Asarum sieboldii in Aristolochiaceae.
[plant morphology] Asarum sieboldii
Perennial herb with special pungent aroma. The rhizome is short with dense nodes and many fibrous roots. Leaves 2-3, triangular heart-shaped, fleshy, with white or light green patches, apex acuminate, base deeply concave as ear. Flowers solitary, petiole very short, close to the ground, light red; calyx campanulate, 3-lobed, radially symmetric, persistent; stamens 12, arranged in 2 rings, filaments short. Ovary 6. Capsule.
It grows in the valley, by the stream and under the forest. It is distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hubei, Xinjiang and Northeast China.
[collection] from April to October.
[nature and taste] Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album": "pungent, warm, toxic. "
[function indications] sweating, expectorant, analgesic, detumescence. It is used to treat cold, headache, cough, asthma, phlegm, toothache, sore mouth and tongue, traumatic injury.
① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "dispelling wind, sweating, promoting Qi, detumescence, expectorant and hemostasis. Treatment of cold, headache, toothache, sore mouth and tongue, contusion, snake injury. "
② "Guangxi botanical catalogue": "sweating, expectorant, upper pain. Treat cold, toothache, cough, asthma and phlegm. "
[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 minutes. External use: tamping, grinding, sprinkling or blowing.
[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind cold headache: three to five points of Herba asari. Take it in water.
② Treatment of heatstroke: 7 pieces of fresh Asarum leaves, mashed and washed with boiling water; or root grind powder, blow into the nose.
③ Treatment of mouth and tongue sores: soil asarum, Coptis each equal, research fine powder scattered on the affected area.
④ Treatment of traumatic injury: fresh soil asarum, mashed and applied to the affected area. (selected out Hubei's "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album")
Chinese PinYin : Tiao Ye Xi Xin
Asarum sibiricum