Iron grass shoes

Iron grass shoes

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Douban green, magmatic grass (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), gongyuteng (selected from the whole exhibition? Surgery).

[source] it is the leaves of the two plants of Asclepiadaceae.

[plant morphology] 1

Climbing vines. Stem more than 2 meters long, hairy. Single leaf opposite, thick fleshy, oblong, oblong, 6-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex acute, base rounded, entire, shortly stipitate. Cymes axillary; corolla fleshy, whorled, 5-lobed. Follicles.

In moist forest or stone crevice. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

② Bulbus trinervosus

Liana. The stem is fleshy. Leaves thick fleshy, with short petiole, ovate heart-shaped to ovate elliptic, apex acuminate, veins not obvious pinnate. The Corolla is white and the heart is red. The results are linear.

Epiphytic to trees or stones. It is distributed in South China, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, fresh or dried in the sun.

Bitter, cool and poisonous.

Functions and indications: connecting muscles and bones, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Treatment of traumatic injuries, fractures, knife and gun injuries.

[selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury and fracture: fresh iron grass shoe leaves, rammed velvet mixed with egg white, applied to the affected area.

② Treatment of knife and gunshot wounds: Iron grass shoe leaves, grind the end and scatter the wound. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine comes from nature and taste)

Chinese PinYin : Tie Cao Xie