Perilla glabra

Perilla glabra

(Zhejiang folk herbs)

[synonyms] Wang Jiangqing, Tian Zhima (Li's grass secret), Bai Malan, Ni Dengxin, Yedi silkworm and Bai gencao (Zhejiang folk herbs).

[source] it is the root or whole grass of the Labiatae.

[plant morphology] Stachys glabra

Perennial herbs, 20-80 cm high. The lower part is creeping and rooting; the stem is square and hairy on the node. Leaves opposite, oblong lanceolate to lanceolate, 4-10.5 cm long, 0.7-3 cm wide, apex acute, base suborbicular or cordate, margin serrate, glabrous on both sides; petiole 3-17 mm long. The flower ring has 6 or more flowers, axillary and integrated into a discontinuous panicle raceme, or terminal at the branch tip, with 5-12 cm long axis; bracts small, lanceolate; calyx campanulate, 7.2 mm long, glabrous or puberulent outside, with 10 veins and 5 teeth, tip of teeth with needle, edge with cilia, upper lip 3 teeth, lower lip 2 teeth; corolla reddish or lavender, 14.5 mm long, upper lip obovate Outer surface pubescent, entire, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 4, 2-strong; style apex 2-lobed, shorter than stamens. Nutlets obovate, 1.8 mm long, black, smooth. The flowering period is from April to June and the fruiting period is from May to July.

In wet field grass or ditch. Distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

[collection] from spring to early winter.

[chemical constituents] it contains caffeic acid, 4-caffeoylquinic acid and chlorogenic acid. It also contains three flavonoids: 7-methoxyaglycone, stachyoside and stachyoside. It also contains saponins.

[nature and taste] Wenling County drug resources list: "slightly sweet in taste, flat in nature. "

[function indications] heat clearing and phlegm resolving, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Treatment of wind heat cough, sore throat, pertussis, dysentery, herpes zoster.

① Hangzhou medicine and plant records: "Tuoli strong agent. "

② "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs": antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. "

③ "Wenling County drug resources list": "Yiyin Qinghuo, Xie re Chutan. Treatment of wind heat rise, sore throat, cough, aphasia, herpes, heat sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: mashing juice coating.

[prescription selection] ① for pertussis: five to one or two bucks of Water Su of Guangye, add appropriate amount of rock sugar or white sugar, and take it in water.

② Treatment of tonsillitis, laryngitis and other laryngeal diseases: one or two or two herbs, or add one or two, five money, fried in water, with service.

③ Treatment of herpes zoster: fresh leaves, perilla root, mash juice coating the affected area.

④ Cure dysentery: light leaf water su 1 to 2 liang, water decoct take. (selected out "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs")