Herba Erigerontis

Herba Erigerontis

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] agave (save the wilderness spectrum), xuelihua (compendium of traditional Chinese Medicine), Wutan (botanical Dictionary), hancao, jinxiandiaoyu (Fujian folk herbal medicine), guazicao, jiajiacao (Zhejiang Journal of traditional Chinese medicine 23 (10): 171958), xuelihua (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resource list), binfanlv (Chinese higher plant Atlas).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] Oldenlandia

Perennial herbs. The stem is slender, the lower part is prostrate, the upper part has sparse branches, 15-30 cm high, green or purplish. Leaves opposite; sessile; long ovate or ovate lanceolate, 5-20 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, sharp at both ends, gold margin or margin shallowly undulate; cymes terminal or axillary; flowers white, petiole slender as silk; sepals 5, lanceolate, apex pointed, margin membranous, smooth; petals 5, as long as sepals or slightly short, 2-lobed, almost to base; stamens 5; ovary ovate, style 2-3. Capsule slightly longer than persistent calyx, 6-valved at maturity. It blooms in spring.

It is found in fields, stream banks or humid areas. It is distributed in most areas of China.

[collection] from February to March, they were collected, cleaned and dried in the shade.

[nature and taste] Fujian folk herbal medicine: "sweet, slightly bitter, warm. "

[function indications] treat cold, dysentery, hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids, traumatic injury.

① "Application of hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids" in the compendium. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "dispelling wind, dispersing cold, sweating and relieving exterior. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping or grinding.

[selection] 1. To treat cold and cold: two liang of Flemingia and half liang of brown sugar. Decoction, twice a day, medication was made to sweat. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of cold dysentery: two liang of fleshy grass, fried in water, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids and leakage: snow flower for the end, wet dry mixed, dry sesame oil transfer liniment one or two degrees, the hemorrhoids that shrink. (collection of compendium)

④ Treatment of sores: appropriate amount of fresh tongue grass, add a little salt, mash and apply.

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury: one or two herbs, two or four taels of yellow rice wine, and appropriate amount of water.

⑥ Treatment of snakebite: one to two pairs of Spartina, fried in water. Take another grip, wash and mash, then apply the wound. (4) Fujian folk herbal medicine

Chinese PinYin : Tian Peng Cao