Four tiles

Four tiles

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[synonym] Four Heavenly Kings (Cao Mu Bian Fang), four Er Feng (classified herbal medicine), four PI wa (collection of commonly used folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of Chloranthus latifolia, or Paris polyphylla and Paris angustifolia.

[plant morphology] 1

Herbs perennial, up to 50 cm tall. The main root is thick and short, the fibrous root is developed, more and thick, 10-14 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter, branched near the apex. Stem erect, smooth, glabrous, with 4-5 nodes. The leaves are oblong ovate or oblong, 10-17 cm long and 8 cm wide, apex acuminate, obtuse, margin crenate, apex awned, base narrowed, broadly cuneate, smooth on both sides, abaxial veins covered with white pilose; sessile or nearly sessile. Spikes usually 2-branched, straight out of the top of the branch, 12 cm long, flowers bisexual and unisexual, small, white, about 2-3 mm in diameter; male flowers without perianth, stamens 3, obovate, united into 1-lamellar body, 3-lobed. Drupe, ovoid or globose, apex acuminate, exocarp fleshy, fruit ca. 3. 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide. The flowering period is April.

He was born under the forest in Zhongshan District. It is distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Zhejiang.

② Paris row grass, also known as: big four tiles.

Perennial herbs, about 30 cm high. The stem is erect with few branches, and the nodes are obvious and slightly expanded. The lower part of the stem has opposite leaves, which are as small as scales, embracing the stem; the top leaves of the stem are in whorls, usually 4 pieces, broad elliptic (the young are ovoid), the apex is pointed or short, the base is gradually pointed or pointed, the whole edge is light green above, light green below, glandular spots can be seen on both sides; the petiole is very short. Flowers clustered at the top of stem, several to 10; pedicel about 7 mm long; calyx lower part united into a spherical, upper 5-lobed, lobes linear lanceolate; corolla yellow, 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted in corolla tube; ovary spherical, style slender, 1-locular. Capsule globose, 5-valved after ripening. The flowering period is May. The fruit period is from May to June.

Born in the mountains. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan.

③ Narrow leaf row grass, see the "wind umbrella" article.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and dried in the sun.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "Wen. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "warm in nature, pungent in taste, non-toxic. "

③ Nanchuan's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "warm in nature, astringent and slightly sour in taste. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. Treatment of cold cough, rheumatism numbness, pain, irregular menstruation, tuberculosis injury.

① Cao Mu Bian Fang: "regulating menstruation and activating blood circulation, treating phlegm and cough, traumatic injury, dispelling wind, removing dampness, clearing toxin and heat. "

② "Classification of herbal medicine": treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism, numbness, muscle and bone pain. "

③ "Promoting blood circulation and relieving pain" in Nanchuan's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. It is used to treat traumatic injuries, wind cold cough, rheumatic pain and tuberculosis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or soak in wine.

[selected formula] for wind cold cough and asthma: sikuawa, Baibu and loquat leaves. Fried in water with ice sugar. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Si Kuai Wa