Wagweed

Wagweed

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

It is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine.

[source] it is the root of Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] wagweed

Herbs perennial, decumbent, ca. 50 cm tall. The root is conic and fleshy. Stem hollow, with swollen nodes, pubescent and capitate glandular hairs. Leaves to small, sessile, elliptic or elliptic ovate, 4-5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, margin undulate, two faces milky and pubescent, dichotomous cyme, terminal; calyx tube green, densely covered with glandular hairs, apex 5-lobed; petals 5, pale red, spatulate oblanceolate, throat with corona, scales 2-lobed; stamens 10, filaments exposed, flowers 2-lobed Anthers white, T-shaped; ovary superior, style 3, meristematic. Capsule conic, 1-locular. Seeds reniform, brown.

It is found in the wild and limestone areas. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou.

[collection] harvest in autumn. Remove fibrous roots, wash and dry.

[medicinal material] the dry root is conical, up to 40 cm long and often twisted. The appearance is yellow and white, with longitudinal wrinkles and horizontal holes. It is brittle and easy to break. The cross section is waxy, the vascular bundle is not obvious, yellow and sparse radial arrangement. No breath, no taste.

It is produced in Yunnan.

It's hard, cool and poisonous.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "the nature is slightly cold, the taste is hard. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "bitter, pungent, cool, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, relieving pain, promoting diuresis and relieving gonorrhea. Treatment of lung heat, cough, rheumatism, bone pain, abdominal pain, trauma pain, gonorrhea.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "open and close orifices, clear lung heat, benefit urination, treat heat drenching. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "analgesia, hemostasis, heat clearing, diuresis, resuscitation. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism, bone pain, abdominal pain and other pain, traumatic mountain blood. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "relieving cough, resolving phlegm, clearing heat, relieving pain. Treatment of lung heat, cough, heat drenching, trauma pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: tamping.

[clinical application] for pain relief

Take the root of Celastrus angustifolia and make it into tablet, 0.5g each tablet, 2-4 tablets each time, and take it orally when it is painful. It was used in 32 cases of various kinds of pain. Generally, the pain began to decrease in 15 minutes and stopped in half an hour. The maintenance time is as short as 5 hours and as long as 20 hours.

Chinese PinYin : Wa Cao