Dodder

Dodder

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Tang (Book of songs), Meng (Biography of Mao poetry), Wang NV (Erya), Tulu (Ben Jing), Luo, Fushi, Chiwang (Wu Pu Ben Cao), tuqiu (Guang ya), tuzog, Tule (BIE Lu), YeHu serograss (Sheng Hui Fang), Huocao (Geng Xin Yu CE), Anoectochilus, YeHu Si (Gang Mu), Hu Si (Qunfang Pu Pu), Huangsi Cao (Ben Cao) This paper introduces the characteristics of Chinese medicinal herbs, such as Jinsi grass, wugen Jinsi grass, zandouteng and doumahuang, wugen grass, morniangteng, Dousheng, wuxuesi, wuniangteng, tuerxu and huanglashu They are: panshadou, huangluansi (Shandong traditional Chinese Medicine), malingsi, zhansiman (Shandong traditional Chinese medicine manual).

[source] the whole plant of dodder or Cuscuta grandis in Convolvulaceae.

[plant morphology] 1

Annual parasitic herbs. The stem is fine, soft, linear, left-handed, multi branched, yellow, with haustoria everywhere, invading the host tissue. There are no green leaves, but triangular ovate scaly leaves. Flowers white, clustered; pedicels absent or very short; bracts, bracts scaly, ovoid: calyx cup-shaped, ca. 2 mm long, apex 5-lobed, lobes ovate or elliptic; corolla short campanulate, 2-3 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes triangular; stamens 5, anthers long ovate, filaments few, each stamen under a scale, oblong, edge seam shaped; pistils short, ovary 2-locular, each Ovary with 2 ovules, style 2, extention, stigma capitate. Capsule oblate, about 3 mm long, brown, with persistent style; seeds 2-4, ovoid or oblate, 3-5 mm long, yellowish brown. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from August to October.

It grows on the edge of fields, wasteland and shrubs. Parasitic on herbs, especially Leguminosae, Compositae, Chenopodiaceae. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

② Dodder, also known as: Golden lantern vine, Mucuna, Liangtou? ("plant name and reality picture research").

The shape is similar to the above species, but the stem is thick, slightly fleshy, yellowish green or orange red. Spike, corolla orange red, bell shaped, style simple, stigma 2-lobed.

It is distributed in most parts of the country.

The seeds of the above plants (Cuscuta chinensis) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the whole grass was harvested in autumn and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry stems are mostly twined into clusters, brown yellow, soft and thin, less than 1 mm thick. The leaves degenerate into scales and fall off. Flowers clustered at stem nodes and spherical. With round or oblate fruit, brown yellow. It tastes bitter. It is better to be dry, yellow brown and without inclusion.

It is mainly produced in Guangdong, Sichuan and other places.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant of Cuscuta chinensis contains amylase and vitamin.

[pharmacological action] the fresh water alcohol extract of cuscutareflexa has relaxation effect on isolated small intestine of guinea pigs and rabbits, but the effect disappears after 5 days. After 5 days, the ethanol water extract of the old herb had cholinergic effect (ileum of guinea pig and rabbit, rectus abdominis of frog and small intestine and blood pressure of dog), which could be blocked by atropine. However, this effect was different from that of acetylcholine: its spasmogenic effect on uterus of guinea pig and rabbit could not be blocked by atropine, but it had no effect on uterus of rat, The extract has obvious cardiotonic effect.

[taste] sweet and bitter, flat.

① "Gangmu": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

② Du Wenxie's Yao Jian: "the nature is cool, the ignorance is slightly sweet. "

③ "The taste is bitter, the nature is cold. "

Functions and indications: heat clearing, blood cooling, diuresis and detoxification. It is used to treat hematemesis, hematemesis, hematochezia, HAEMORRHEA, drenching, leucorrhea, dysentery, jaundice, carbuncle, rash, heat toxin and rash.

① "Ben Jing": juice to face anhydride. "

② Tao Hongjing: "its stem is pressed to bathe children and treat heat rash. "

③ "Materia medica Mengluo": "jieredu rash, Sanxiang collapse acne. "

④ Du Wenxie's "medicine mirror" said: "it can benefit water and treat damp heat. "

⑤ "Baicaojing": "it can be used to treat drenching, turbid dysentery, jaundice, pre detoxify pox and apply red silk. "

⑥ "Cooling blood and dispersing blood". It is used to treat carbuncle, gangrene, swelling and toxin, vomit, bleeding, collapse, defecation, cough and cough. Taking it can stop it, relieve all kinds of poison, miasma and carbuncle. "

⑦ "Li's herbal secret": "treating blood, relieving acne toxin, treating dystocia with alcohol. "

⑧ In the compendium of compendium, it is said that "Ge Zuzhi's treatment of fox's coquettish spirit has helped to dispel sweat and malaria. "

⑨ "To cure Dieda, to benefit urination. "

⑩ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "blood circulation, spermatogenesis, acne and numbness; sweat spots washing and scraping.". "

(11) records of Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine: "internal use can nourish yin; external use of decoction can treat Yin sores, Yin swelling, Yin itching, Yin pain and vaginal trichomoniasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: decocting, washing, tamping or dressing.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure dysuria: hold Hypericum and wash your stomach with leek root decoction. (Cihui Xiaobian)

② Treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, waist and knee pain, urine dripping, loose stool, women's leucorrhea: Golden lantern vine fresh whole grass three to four money. Decoct in water, take yellow rice wine and brown sugar. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Dysentery syndrome: jindengteng Decoction with ginger. (a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

④ Treatment of bacillary dysentery, enteritis: fresh dodder whole grass one or two. One dose daily, decoct twice. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

⑤ Treatment of red eye pain: wild fox pulp grass, pound juice, point of. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥ Treatment of head sores in children and facial sores in women: washing with Tusi decoction. (secret records of son and mother)

[clinical application] treatment of vitiligo

Take the whole herb of Cuscuta chinensis to make a 25% tincture of Cuscuta chinensis, dip the cotton swab into the liquid and rub the affected area, 2 or 3 times a day. 10 cases were treated, 5 cases were significantly improved, 3 cases were improved and 2 cases were ineffective. The curative effect is poor in patients with long course of disease. Generally, the effect can only be seen after more than one week of treatment, and the effect is obvious after one month.

Chinese PinYin : Tu Si