Broken rice firewood
(compendium)
[synonyms] Bayu grass (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), qidabeo and tianxiaodou (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine), braided grass, horsetail grass, flounder, Xiaohuang powder, Cymbidium, Xiaoyao grass, turtledove nest, Sanfeng powder, malongtong, tuicha, turtledove nose, Akebia (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), luluxing, taiyanggrass, Honggeng grass, Hemerocallis, Xiaodu grass (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual) The results showed that the contents of Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan Province were different from those in Sichuan Province (1:30, 1972).
[source] it is the whole grass of leguminous plant Trifolium repens.
[plant morphology] Trifolium repens
Herbaceous, supine. The root is thick, woody and has many branches. 3-compound, stipules lanceolate subulate; leaflets elliptic or oblong, 2-9 mm long, sometimes up to 17 mm; apex rounded, mucronate, base rounded or cordate, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below, petiole 2-3 mm long. Raceme terminal, or axillary, sparsely 6-10-18 flowered; pedicel 7-15 mm long. Flowers small, pink, ca. 5 mm long; calyx 4 mm long; calyx teeth linear lanceolate, apex spiny, 3 times longer than calyx tube; corolla butterfly shaped, flag petal round, apex slightly concave, wing petal adnate to keel petal; stamens 10, 2-bodied; pistil 1, style incurved. Pods usually 4-segmented, 12 mm long, 3 mm wide, sometimes 2 or 3-segmented, pubescent, ventral suture shallowly dentate. The flowering period is from May to September.
In grass or shrubbery. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc.
The root of this plant (braided grass root) is also used for medicine. See special section for details.
[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.
[chemical constituents] it contains alkaloids, triterpenoid saponins, coumarin, sugars, proteins, oils, volatile oils, acid resins, tannins and phenols.
[pharmacological] mice injected intraperitoneally with water extract had a significant antitussive effect (ammonia spray induced cough) and no expectorant effect (phenol red method) when administered. Intraperitoneal injection can obviously prevent histamine induced asthma in guinea pigs. It can antagonize the contraction of tracheal smooth muscle induced by histamine or acetylcholine. It can antagonize the contraction induced by acetylcholine, pilocarpine and barium chloride. According to the preliminary test, the main active ingredient of xiaolingcao in antitussive and antiasthmatic action is water-soluble part. In vitro, the water extract injection had only a weak inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus.
The median lethal dose of the above preparation was 40 g / kg. The median lethal dose was 55 g / kg for 14 days.
[nature and taste] 1. Jiangxi herbal medicine: "sweet, flat. "
② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cool. "
Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing dampness and detoxifying. Treatment of urinary calculi, chronic gastritis, chronic tracheitis, infantile malnutrition, carbuncle, hair back, hemorrhoids, lacquer sores.
① "Gangmu": "the main carbuncle hair back. Take the leaves and apply them for medicine. "
② "A textual research on the names and facts of plants": "apply to cure lacquer sores. "
③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "anti inflammatory hemostasis, Lishi Tongluo. Treatment of kidney, bladder stones, chronic gastritis, fever. "
[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping or boiling water fumigation.
[selection] ① hemorrhoids: two liang of broken rice and firewood. Rinse with boiling water. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)
② Cure lacquer sore: broken rice firewood two Liang. Fry in water and wash the affected area gently. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)
③ Treatment of infantile malnutrition: clover three gold one or two, snow grass five money, a chicken liver. Stew in water, take soup and eat liver. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)
④ Treatment of snakebite: fresh braided grass, mashed external application, at the same time with fresh one to two fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)
⑤ Treatment of scald; Folium three points of gold, grind fine powder, sesame oil (tea oil, vegetable oil can be) mixed, apply on the affected area. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)
[clinical application] treatment of chronic tracheitis
Take it with ganxiaolingcao. The dosage is divided into three kinds: 1 liang, 1.5 Liang, add 1 liang of pork, 1.5 liang of new preparation, add about 1000 ml of water, and decoct for 2 hours in airtight condition to obtain 400-500 ml of decoction. Three times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment. The results showed that 41 cases (15.3%) were near control, 89 cases (32.9%) were markedly effective, 115 cases (42.6%) were improved and 25 cases (9.2%) were ineffective. The effect of relieving cough and expectorant is better than that of antiasthmatic. 65.9% of the patients were markedly effective after 1-3 days. In the course of treatment, some patients had headache, abdominal distension, insomnia and excitement, and some patients had skin rash; a few patients had sweating, hot face, dry mouth, nausea, foggy eyes, and others had no obvious side effects.
Chinese PinYin : Sui Mi Chai
Broken rice firewood