Shepherd's purse

Shepherd's purse

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] guixiangyou (compendium of Chinese Medicine), xiaoyuxiancao (a textual research on the names and facts of plants), xiangrucao, yejingjie, yexiangru (classified herbal medicine), tujingjie, yexiangru (Fujian folk herbal medicine), rehengcao (Zhejiang Journal of traditional Chinese medicine 9 (6): 471966), vanilla, yejuncai, baihecao, tianxiangyou, wuvanilla, tubingchen (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine), Zihuacao (the Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine of Su Yi).

[source] it is the whole plant of the family Labiatae.

[plant morphology] Mosla crassa

Annual erect herb, 20-60 cm high, much branched. Stem square, pubescent downward. The leaves are oblong, purplish, hairy, 1.1-4 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, margin slightly serrate, both sides with golden glandular dots; petiole 3-20 mm long. Floral rings integrated into interrupted racemes, terminal; bracts ovate lanceolate to ovate, longer than petiole. The calyx is bell shaped, with 10 veins, 1.9-2.5 mm long, with villous and golden glandular spots on the outside, 2 lips, 3 teeth on the upper lip, small and short teeth in the middle, long teeth on both sides, 2 teeth on the lower lip; the Corolla is light purple, 4.5 mm long, puberulent on the outside, contracted at the base of corolla tube, and hairy ring on the upper part of contraction, The upper lip is short, the top is concave, the lobes on both sides of the lower lip are nearly semicircular, the middle lobe is large and outward folded, inverted heart-shaped, with villous inner surface and round teeth at the top; stamens are 4,2-degenerated; styles are 2-lobed, extending out of the tube. Nutlets nearly round, yellowish brown, with reticular raised wrinkles. The flowering period is from September to October. The fruit period is from October to November.

It grows under the trees on the hillside and beside the ditch. Distributed in Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

[collection] from July to August, the whole grass was collected and dried in the sun.

[chemical composition] it contains 5% alkaloid, saponin, tannin and 0.57-3.5% volatile oil. The main components of the volatile oil were l-platycladus orientalis 75%, d-sabinene 11%, d-limonene 8%, α - caryophyllene, phellandrene, etc.

It's hard work and cool.

Materia medica notes: "pungent, warm, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing summer heat, dispelling wind and dampness, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat summer heat, blood stasis, dysentery, cold, cough, chronic tracheitis, carbuncle, sore, swelling, rubella and heat rash.

① "The main wind and blood, cold air, sores and scabies, hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids leak blood, and boiled juice clothing. "

② Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs: "moisten the skin, nourish the color, kill sores and poisons, stop snakebites, bee stings and hair injuries, and wipe them with leaves. "

③ "Li's Cao Mi" says: "it can cure all kinds of furuncle and swelling poison. "

④ "Classification of herbal medicine": treatment of Sha disease, cholera; detoxification, to summer heat. "

⑤ Fujian folk herbal medicine: "dehumidifying and dispelling wind. Treat eczema and stop itching. "

⑥ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "dispel wind, disperse blood stasis, break knot, disinfect. Treatment of typhoid headache, stroke, mouth silence, bleeding, intestinal wind, collapse, blood dysentery, carbuncle swelling, falls. "

⑦ "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine": "Qingshu jiebiao, detumescence, detoxification. Treatment of cold, heat stroke, rash, nameless swelling poison, centipede bite. "

⑧ "Wenling County drug resources directory": "hemostasis treatment of trauma bleeding, cold cough. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[taboo] Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it should not be used if the exterior is deficient. "

[prescription selection] ① to treat high fever caused by heat stroke: shishiqi, kuhao, shuidengxin. Water and sugar. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Cure cold, heat stroke: Stone shepherd's purse beg five money. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of rubella, cold: Stone shepherd's purse begging whole grass three to five money, white chrysanthemum three to five. Drink boiled water and stew. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of wax gourd carbuncle, with gangrene: Ghost sesame oil plus licorice money, into the sauce plate salt, pounding effective. (Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs)

⑤ Carbuncle treatment (in the stage of not forming pus): Stone shepherd's purse begging leaf, add brown sugar half Liang. Mash it up, paste it all over the affected area, and change it once or twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of eczema, pruritus, tinea pedis: Stone shepherd's purse begging the whole grass. Fry the soup and take a bath. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑦ Heat rash treatment: fresh stone shepherd's purse two Jin, fried soup wash. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑧ Heat heat: Stone shepherd's purse beg fresh leaves rub, rub. (Zhejiang Journal of traditional Chinese medicine 9 (6): 47, 1966)

⑨ Treatment of malaria: zihuacao twist rotten nostrils, and fried soup in malaria before washing face. (records of Jiangsu medicinal materials)

⑩ Treatment of centipede bite: Stone shepherd's purse begging fresh leaves rub the affected area. Or burn and store at the end of the research, add sesame oil to adjust and apply. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

[clinical application] treatment of chronic tracheitis

Four different compounds were composed of shizhiqi, Huzhang, Commelina communis, Ruixu and Yucao: yishizhiqi 3 liang of fresh whole grass (1 liang of dry grass), Huzhang 1.5 liang of fresh (5 liang of dry product); ershizhiqi and Huzhang the same as before, with Commelina communis 1.5 liang of fresh (5 liang of dry product); sanshizhiqi and Huzhang the same as before, with Ruixu 1.5 liang of fresh (5 liang of dry product); sishizhiqi 3 liang of fresh grass, with Yucao 1.5 liang of fresh (5 liang of dry product). According to the above four compounds were made into granules, 1 dose a day, 2 times, 10 days as a course of treatment. A total of 939 cases were treated, including 574 cases of simple type and 365 cases of wheezing type. After two courses of observation, clinical cure accounted for 3.8%, markedly effective 18%, improved 57.4%, ineffective 20%, the total effective rate was 79.2%. Among them, one or two prescriptions had the highest curative effect, and the markedly effective rate was more than 25%. During the medication, some patients felt dry mouth, dizziness, stomach discomfort and abdominal distension, which disappeared after a few days.

Chinese PinYin : Shi Qi Qi