Pholidota chinensis

Pholidota chinensis

(essential preparation of medicinal properties of Materia Medica)

[synonyms] shishanglian and shiolive (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou Army), shichuanpan (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), shiyurou (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), Guoshangye, Qiannianai, xiaosuzilan (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine), dahuanlan, Dendrobium pumilum, chuanjiacao, and durian (Hunan medicinal records).

[source] it is the pseudobulb or whole grass of Pholidota chinensis.

[plant morphology] Pholidota chinensis

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is thick, creeping and short. Pseudobulb ovate or orbicular. Leaves 2, oblong or elliptic, 5-15 cm or longer, apex acuminate, parallel veins many. The flower stem is 10-15 cm high, with 2 leaves and sheath like scaly leaves at the base; raceme is at the top of the flower stem, bent down, with 8-20 flowers, green white; bracts ovate lanceolate, not falling, 2-row, margin involute; sepals oblong, acute, dorsal keel shaped, about 10 mm long; petals linear acute, slightly short; labellum oblong, divided into upper and lower reticulate, lower concave, upper reversed The lateral lobes are small, broad oblong, acute and pointed; the tip of pistil column is winged, and the anther is terminal. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from June to August.

Born on the rocks under the forest or attached to other trees. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvested in autumn, fresh or scalded with boiling water and dried in the sun.

[herb] the rhizome is short and thick, with membranous scales. There is a pseudobulb every 1-2 cm, and fibrous roots on the lower side. Pseudobulb is short cylindrical or long ovate, 2-4 cm long, 3-8 mm in diameter, shrunken in appearance, dirty yellow or yellowish brown, smooth, with leaf marks at the top, conic like dry buds in the center, and sheath like scaly leaves at the base. It is hard and slightly tough with white cross section. The taste is sweet and light. It is better to have less fibrous roots and larger pseudobulbs.

Produced in Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

Sweet and cool.

① Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "sweet, light, flat. "

② Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, slightly sour, cool. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, clearing lung, removing dampness and blood stasis. Treat dizziness, headache, cough, hematemesis, dreaminess, dysentery, leucorrhea, malnutrition.

① "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": treat internal injury, resolve phlegm and stop cough. "

② "Lingnan medicine collection record": "for internal injury and hematemesis, fried with pork essence; for asthma and cough, fried with tangerine peel and pork; for heart qi pain, fried with water, washed with wine; for rheumatism and bone pain, soaked with wine; for white dysentery, fried with water, mixed with honey; for wind fire toothache, fried with water, washed with wine. "

③ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "Qingfei yure, Yangfei Yin, Huatan Zhike. Treatment of internal injury, cough, heat accumulation in children. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh).

[prescription selection] ① for tuberculosis, hemoptysis, chronic cough, acute gastroenteritis and chronic gastritis: fresh shixiantao 1-22 or dry shixiantao 3-5. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

② Treatment of lung heat cough, adverse urination, damp heat edema, infantile malnutrition: Stone olives three to five money, decoction. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of cough, sore throat: dry leaves on the table five money to one or two, decoction, twice a day. (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: fruit leaves dry powder external application; or fresh product tamping. (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer: shixiantao whole grass, five money to one or two, water fried pinch. (Hunan medical records)

⑥ Treatment of heat Bi, back pain: shixiantao two to four pairs of fresh and false bulbs, fried with wine.

⑦ Treatment of heat drenching: fresh whole grass shixiantao 1 to 2 liang, fried in water.

⑧ Treat dream legacy: Stone fairy peach fresh false bulb one or two, golden grass fresh whole grass five money. Take it in water.

⑨ For stomachache, toothache and throat pain caused by deficiency fire: one to two pairs of fresh and false bulbs of Pholidota chinensis, fried in water. (6) Fujian Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)

⑩ Treatment of traumatic injury: fresh shixiantao mashed, add wine topical. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

(11) treatment of chronic osteomyelitis: the whole plant of fresh stone lotus, mash and apply externally to the affected area, or use dry products, soak and grind the juice with light rice wine, mix boiling water and apply externally to the affected area. (selected works of the whole exhibition: surgery)

[clinical application] treatment of vertigo and headache

Take an egg, needling more than 10 holes, put it in the jar, cover it with 2 liang of olive grass, and simmer with water for half an hour. Take soup and eggs one hour after meal, one dose a day. More than 100 cases of mild concussion, vertigo and headache were treated effectively. Twenty five patients with dizziness and headache were treated with compound decoction made from this product and other drugs (such as blocking tiger, coix lachryma, etc.). The results showed that 22 cases of symptoms disappeared, 2 cases alleviated, and only 1 case was invalid due to cold syndrome. Generally, it takes effect after taking 1-2 doses, and there is no adverse reaction.

Chinese PinYin : Shi Xian Tao