Palmar ginseng

Palmar ginseng

(records of medicinal plants in Northeast China)

[synonyms] Sanshou and Zhangshen (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual), shouershen (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), Wangla (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the tuber of Cymbidium japonicum and Cymbidium japonicum.

[plant morphology] 1. Hand ginseng, also known as Yinyang grass.

Perennial herbs, 30-80 cm high. Tubers 4-6-lobed, fat palm like, usually 2, white at birth, yellow white later. Stem erect, base with pale brown leaf sheath. Cauline leaves 4-7, oblong lanceolate, base embracing stem, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, 6-15 cm long; flowers numerous, pink or reddish purple, bracts elliptic lanceolate, outer perianth oblong ovate, central perianth concave, lateral perianth recurved, inner perianth 2, broadly ovate, oblique; labellum equal in length and width, rhombic, triple lobed, lobes nearly ovate and obtuse, central lobe longer; spur usually falcate curved, slender, 1.3 long 8 cm; ovary very twisted, ca. 8 mm long. Capsule oblong, sessile, ca. 10 mm long; seeds small. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to August.

It grows in forest, grassland, valley and shrub. It is distributed in Northeast, North China, northwest and Sichuan.

② Hand ginseng with thick veins

Perennial herbs, 20-50 cm high. The tuberous root is thick, usually 4-6 palmar cleft, shaped like a palm, white at first, then yellow, and fibrous root at the top. Stem erect with 5-7 leaves. The leaves are alternate, oblong or lanceolate, and the base is sheathed and embracing the stem, gradually becoming smaller upward. The uppermost leaves are nearly scaly, dark green above and light green below. Spike terminal, flowers dense, purple red, lip triangular or subrhombic, apex 3-lobed, spur shorter than ovary. Capsule, oblong, apex acute.

It grows in the moist and fertile place of alpine grassland or forest margin. Distributed in Tibet and other places.

[collection] spring and autumn. Remove the stems, leaves and fibrous roots, wash them, dry them in the sun, or blanch them with boiling water and then dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry tuber is palm shaped, finger shaped, usually 4-6-lobed, slightly flat, 2.5-3.5 cm long, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, wrinkled and yellowish in surface, sometimes with a brown ring around the stem scar. It is hard, white and gelatinous. It has peculiar Qi and light taste.

Produced in Northeast and Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Hebei and other places.

The tubers of Agave longibracteata are also used as medicine in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai provinces. The main differences between the two species are as follows: the leaves are oval or oval, more than 3cm wide; the bracts are much longer than the flowers; the flowers are yellow green, the lip is 2-3-lobed, and the distance is short and saccate.

Sweet and smooth.

① "Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual": "sweet slightly bitter, slightly cold. "

② Common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "Gan, Ping. "

③ "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "mild temperature, sweet taste, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "entering lung, spleen and stomach meridians. "

Functions and indications: tonifying qi and blood, generating fluid and relieving thirst. It is used to treat lung deficiency, cough and asthma, asthenia and emaciation, neurasthenia, chronic diarrhea, blood loss, leucorrhea, hypogalactia and chronic hepatitis.

① "Northeast medicine Zhi": "it is made into mucus, used for poisoning and diarrhea; soaking wine is a strong and strong essence agent. "

② "Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "astringent hemostasis, detoxification. Treatment of long diarrhea, blood loss, gonorrhea, take down. "

③ "Heilongjiang folk traditional Chinese medicine": "treating Yin flaccidity by soaking wine. "

④ "Removing blood stasis" in Chinese medicine and plant Atlas. It's not good to cure traumatic injuries with accumulated blood. "

⑤ Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying blood and Qi, generating body fluid and relieving thirst. Treatment of lung deficiency, cough and asthma, tuberculosis, emaciation, lack of milk. "

⑥ "Common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet": treating chronic hepatitis. "

⑦ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it can nourish and strengthen the body, invigorate the spleen, moisten the lung, calm the nerves and calm the nerves, replenish qi and relieve pain. Treatment of physical weakness, neurasthenia, strain, cough, asthma. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 0.3-1 Liang; grind to powder or make syrup or soak wine.

[taboo] "manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment": "do not take exogenous diseases. "

[formula selection] ① after treatment, the body is weak: palm ginseng three coins. Take it in water. (Hebei Traditional Chinese medicine manual)

② Treatment of cough and asthma: palm ginseng 2 liang, lily, jujube each 4 liang. Fried in water. Take it before meals, half a cup at a time. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of long diarrhea, blood loss, leucorrhea: palm ginseng three money, water decoction; or research at the end of the service, each time eight minutes, twice a day. (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

④ Treatment of traumatic injury: palm ginseng three money, decoction or wine orally. (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

⑤ Treatment of hepatitis: Bergamot ginseng, polygonatum, powder bracteatum each amount, made into syrup. Take 10-15 ml each time, three times a day, with children's discretion. (selected works of the exhibition: infectious diseases).

⑥ Treatment of Brucella, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, etc. Two times a day, three yuan each time, fried in water. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

⑦ Treatment of deficiency of blood and lack of milk: Radix Astragali, angelica, rhaponticum, polygonatum odoratum. Take it in water. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

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