Guan Zhong

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

In addition, it is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine.

[source] it is the root of bright leaf or whole grass with root of Rosaceae.

[plant morphology] Potentilla glabra

Perennial herbs. Root hypertrophy, conical or irregularly cylindrical, purple brown. Stem erect, surface densely covered with yellow white woolly hairs. Its petioles are 2.4-3.5 cm long and covered with white woolly hairs. The apical leaflets are the largest, usually separated by 2-4 pairs of small leaflets between the large leaflets. The small ones are obovate to broadly elliptic, with rounded apex and broadly cuneate base. The edge is pointed and serrated, with dark green on the top and white on the bottom, all covered with woolen hair. Inflorescence terminal; flowers yellow, ca. 2 cm in diameter; calyx green, 5-lobed, lobes obovate to elliptic, accessory sepals smaller, 5-lobed. The flowers have 5 petals and are broad obovate. The male and female pistils are numerous and gather on the white receptacle. Achenes small, numerous, pale brown, surrounded by persistent calyx. It blooms in summer and autumn.

Born on hillside and roadside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet.

[nature and taste] 7. In the south of Yunnan materia medica: "it is cold in nature, bitter and astringent in taste. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine": "bitter and astringent, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and inflammation, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is used to treat red and white dysentery, enteritis, stomachache, pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematochezia, blood avalanche, traumatic bleeding and sores.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "for the treatment of haemorrhage, leucorrhea and blood under the large intestine, it is baked with new tile; for the treatment of cold pain on the face, it is induced by burning wine. "

② "Guizhou folk medicine": "treatment of dysentery, sores, rheumatism. "

③ "Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine selection": "clearing heat, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory convergence. Treat dysentery, enteritis, stomachache, hemoptysis, hematemesis, traumatic bleeding, dysmenorrhea. "

④ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection: "cooling blood to stop bleeding, astringent and antidiarrheal. Treatment of tuberculosis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, dyspepsia, anemia, red white dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 0.5-1 Liang; grind powder, 3-5 min; or soak in wine. External use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[selection] 1. To treat dysentery: turn over one or two fresh herbs. Add water and fry well. Put the right amount of brown sugar in the pot, add two liang of wine, burn it, add the decocted liquid, and then take it.

② Treatment of sores: turn the white grass on the back, mash and apply it to the affected area, leave the head, and replace it when it is dry.

③ Treat rheumatism pain: turn back white grass root three Liang. Wine making clothes. (1) Guizhou folk medicine is published below the prescription.)

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: turn white leaf root, powder. (selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

Chinese PinYin : Guan Zhong