Curcuma hygroscopica

Curcuma hygroscopica

(Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Kojima (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine), heartless grass (Northern commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole grass of the Compositae plant Kojima hygroscopica.

[plant morphology] Ranunculus hygroscopicus

Annual herb, the whole plant is woolly, gray white. Stems 15-40 cm high, solitary or clustered, erect or oblique. Lower leaves oblanceolate to linear, ca. 4 cm long, ca. 3 mm wide, apex obtuse, cuspidate, base narrow, entire, sessile; cauline leaves oblong, linear to lanceolate. The head inflorescence is dense at the top of stem and branch, spherical, arranged in racemose; the involucre bracts are 3-row, light yellow, lanceolate to long elliptic, membranous; the florets are yellow white; the marginal flowers are filiform, female; the disk flowers are bisexual, thicker and fruity. Achene oblong; dark brown, with fine spots and corolla. The flowering period is August. The fruiting period is September.

It grows in wet places such as alpine grassland and river bank. Distribution of northeast and Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other places.

[collection] collected in late summer, cut into sections and dried in the sun.

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

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "sweet, slightly cold. "

[Guijing] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "entering lung, big and small intestine meridians. "

Functions and indications: relieving cough, resolving phlegm, removing dampness, regulating the middle, lowering blood pressure, eliminating sores and swelling. It is used to treat cough, asthma, muscle and bone pain, damp heat dysentery, gastric ulcer, hypertension, carbuncle, sore, swelling and poison.

① "Zhike Huatan" in Northeast medicine Zhi. Treatment of asthma and bronchitis, gastric ulcer, hypertension, fire, abscess. "

② "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "regulating Chinese herbs, tonifying Qi, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. "

③ "Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "treating dysmenorrhea. "

④ "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "treatment of sore throat, tuberculosis pneumonia, dysentery red white, carbuncle sore swelling poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. Cough treatment: Radix Salviae, radix salviae miltiorrhizae, Radix Donghua and cortex mori. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in North China)

② Treatment of chronic bronchitis: Curcuma three money, almond three money, licorice one money. Fried in water, twice a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

3. Pain control: one or two of the rat's yeast and 1 kg of Baijiu. Soak for three days, drink, one cup each time, take twice a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of damp heat dysentery: wet rat curd leather, Berberis bark, Gansong. Take it by frying. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

⑤ Treatment of gastric ulcer: Curcuma, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Glycyrrhizae. Fried in water, twice a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of hypertension: a Curcuma four money, Uncaria three money, sangsheng three money. Fried in water, twice a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine) Herba Salviae, Scutellaria baicalensis, Salsola and lotus. Take it by frying. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

⑦ Carbuncle sore swelling poison: wet Curcuma, Yinhua, red peony, Dalizi. Take it in boiling water. Can also be used wet sage, cow ear rhubarb mashed compress. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

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