Tiematou
(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)
[synonym] horsebean (Diannan materia medica) and butterfly grass (Kunming folk herbal medicine).
[source] it is the whole grass of leguminous plant Phaseolus pubescens.
[plant morphology] bracteata hirsuta
Perennial herbaceous vines, 60-120 cm long. Stem green, slender, many branched, densely white pilose. Stipules lanceolate, about 4 mm long; leaves alternate; petioles about 1-3 cm long, densely pubescent; leaflets 3, elliptic, obovate or rhomboid obovate, 1-2.5 cm long, 7-16 mm wide, apex obtuse, apex pointed, base rounded or broadly cuneate, both sides with white pubescence, margin undulate. Raceme axillary; bracts, bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, hairy, persistent; pedicel short, white villous; calyx campanulate, densely villous; corolla yellow. Pods strip, flat, densely pilose, dehiscent at maturity. Seeds 4-5, dark green with black spots.
It grows on the edge of mountains and fields or in wet roadside grass. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi.
[collection] collection in summer and autumn. Dry or fresh.
Bitter and cool.
① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "the nature is slightly cold. "
② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, cool. "
[Guijing] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "entering the liver and gallbladder two meridians. "
Functions and indications: clearing the liver and relieving heat, eliminating steaming and calming cough. Treatment of yin deficiency, hot flashes, afternoon bone steaming, tuberculosis, cough, mastitis, mumps.
① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it is mainly used to discharge the fire of liver and gallbladder. The treatment of cold and heat exchanges, afternoon hot tide. "
② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing deficiency fire, relieving liver and gallbladder heat. Treatment of yin deficiency, hot tide, bone steaming, tuberculosis heat, deficiency tuberculosis cough. "
③ Common folk herbs in Kunming: "clearing away heat and eliminating inflammation. Treat mastitis, mumps. "
[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.
[selected formula] for the treatment of dry tuberculosis, fever, cold in the afternoon, fever at night, cough and spitting: three coins of tiemadou, three coins of huaishudi, two coins of cough plus linglingcao (stir fried with honey), two coins of phlegm plus yunchenpi. Fry some children's clothes in water. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)
Chinese PinYin : Tie Ma Dou
Tiematou