Sleeping vegetables

Sleeping vegetables

(compendium)

[synonym] chuocai, Mingcai (Southern vegetation shape), zuocao (compendium).

[source] it is the leaf or whole grass of Gentianaceae.

[plant morphology] sleeping vegetable

Perennial herbs, 20-30 m high. Rhizome with long nodule underground. It has three compound leaves, which grow on the upper part of the rhizome and have long stalks; the leaflets have no stalks, the leaves are thick and slightly fleshy, long elliptic, 4-8 cm in length and 2-4.5 cm in width, the apex blunt, and the edge microwavy. The flower stem is single, cylindrical, 25-35 cm high; raceme, white flowers, about 1 cm in diameter, long pedicel, with an ovate bract at the base; calyx 5-lobed, lobes oblong; corolla funnel-shaped, tube longer than calyx, lobes 5-oblong lanceolate, inner side densely covered with white villous; stamen 5, inserted in tube, anther black; pistil 1, longer than stamen, style erect Out of corolla, stigma trigeminal. Capsule globose, 2-lobed at maturity, containing a few globose seeds. The flowering period is June.

Born in swamp and shallow water area. Distributed in Northeast, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

The rhizome of this plant (pakchoi root) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in summer and autumn, the leaves with stem were taken.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain about 1% Picroside, tannin and fatty oil. It also contains 0.035% alkaloids, from which gentianine, gentiopicine, ornitholine and Xizang longcholine are separated.

The whole herb contains rutin, Hyperoside, trifolioside, mucoside (i.e. soporioside), soporioside B, dihydrosoporioside B, soporioside A and kailian mucoside.

The aerial part contains α - spinasterol, stigmasterol-7-ol and other sterols. The main components are α - pinene, 1,8-cineole, solanese, gurrene, neronene, isovalerate, etc.

[pharmacological action] the decoction of leaves and roots can be used as bitter stomach tonic agent, and has the effect of purgation, which can induce vomiting in large quantities; the bitter taste is related to the content of Solanum lyratum.

[nature and taste] ① in the Compendium: "sweet, slightly bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

② "The manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "it tastes sweet and slightly bitter, warm and non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the compendium of Medical Sciences, "it can cure the evil heat of heart and diaphragm, and can't sleep. "

② The manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the North: "invigorate the spleen, eliminate food, nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind. Treatment of gastritis, stomachache, dyspepsia, palpitations, insomnia, restlessness. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Shui Cai