Achyranthes bidentata

Guangdong Province

(Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Acacia banguensis,,, duoxugong, liuyueshuang (preparation of raw herbs), Baixugong (seeking the source of Materia Medica), niushe, xiaoluosan (Lingnan caiyaolu), Liuyuexue (Luchuan materia medica), hemp (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), JUNCAO, Shila, baihuajiang (main poisonous plants in South China).

[source] it is the root of Compositae.

[plant morphology] Eupatorium adenophorum, also known as Eupatorium adenophorum.

Perennial herbs, 80-150 cm high. Branches meandering, slightly pubescent. Single leaf opposite, short petiole, ovate or elliptic lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long, apex acute, base rounded or subcordate, margin irregularly coarsely toothed, glabrous or subglabrous, veins conspicuous, veins densely hairy; petiole 3-10 mm long, pubescent. Each head has 5-6 flowers, about 10 involucre bracts, imbricate arrangement, long garden or ovate, unequal in size, apex obtuse, margin dry membranous, florets are tubular, bisexual, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular; stamen 5, anther base obtuse; ovary inferior, 1-locular, style protruding out of corolla, style 1-locular The head is 2-cleft. Achenes cylindrical, slightly hairy. Usually 5-ribbed; corolla 1-row, setate. The flowering period is from July to September.

Born on hillside wasteland. It is distributed all over China.

The leaves of this plant (snow leaf in June) are also used for medicinal purposes.

[collection] collect in autumn, remove soil, dry in the sun, or fresh.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids and organic acids.

It's hard work and cool.

① "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": it tastes sweet and has a flat nature. "

② Lu Chuan's materia medica: "pungent, cool. "

③ Lingnan herbal medicine records: "sweet and bitter, cool nature. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, detumescence, clearing heat, detoxification and stasis. Treatment of diphtheria, breast moth, throat swelling, hematemesis, blood drenching, traumatic swelling and pain.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "it can cure falls and injuries, strengthen muscles and bones, replenish tibia, and wash with boiling water. "

② Ben Cao Qiu yuan: "strengthen the muscles and bones, strengthen the waist and knees. "

③ "Lingnan medicine collection record" says: "dispersing blood to relieve pain, regulating beriberi, taking its root to decoct wine and taking it. Where the legs and feet are red and swollen, the color is bright, the heat is like fire, and the bean curd residue is mashed and applied to the affected area. "

④ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "Tongjing, zhiemetic blood, antipyretic, wind, diuretic, external application of swelling.". "

⑤ "Lu Chuan materia medica:" antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, detoxification, treatment of heart and lung heat. Diphtheria and all laryngeal diseases. "

⑥ Lingnan herbal medicine annals: "it can widen tendons and activate collaterals, relieve heat and cool blood, relieve arthralgia and promote blood stasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-6 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[taboo] according to the manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou army, "pregnant women should not use it. "

[formula selection] 1. Prevention of diphtheria: Radix Achyranthes Bidentatae root zumo three to five coins. After decocting for three times, collect and filter the concentrated solution, take it one to three times for four days, which is a preventive dosage. If the epidemic situation is not extinguished, the second preventive dose can be taken 15 days after the drug. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

② To cure diphtheria: three taels of Achyranthes bidentata, two taels of shandapo, one or two roots of muzanzi. Slice into slices, add 2500 ml water, fry to 1000 ml, add appropriate amount of sugar. Usage: 200 ml for 1-2 years old, 250 ml for 3-6 years old, 400-600 ml for 7-12 years old, 1000 ml for adults, four to five times a day. Severe patients can double the dosage. (selected works on infectious diseases)

③ Treatment of sore throat, single and double moth throat: half a catty of fresh snow root in June, mash and extract natural juice, add a little salt, or mix with skin, appropriate amount, fry concentrated juice, swallow slowly, and leave some gargle. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of cold and high fever: June snow 22. Mince, fry thick juice, add honey to mix. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

⑤ Treat blood drench: June snow 22. Add a little rice wine and fry in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of snake entangled fingers (dam gangrene): June snow fresh roots one or two, ten insects. Three Liang rice wine, a bowl of water, with boiling into juice, until the temperature immersion of the affected finger, cold change immersion temperature liquid, until the pain stops.

⑦ Treatment of soup fire: June snow fried juice, cold compress the affected area.

⑧ Treatment of snakebite: June xuegen wine extract, coated with red swelling; in addition, June snow, golden key, zoumafeng each three money, water and wine each half fried. (8) the following prescriptions are recorded in the annals of Lingnan herbal medicine.)

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