Calamus chinensis

Calamus chinensis

(Jiangxi herbal medicine)

[synonym] seven story building, Yi Jian Xiang, Xiao Wei Shen Gen, 36 Dang (Jiangxi herbal medicine), Lao Jun Xu, Teng Lao Jun Xu, Bai Long Xu, Huang Mao Xi Xin, 36 Gen (Hunan herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Asclepiadaceae.

[plant morphology] calamus chinensis

Perennial twining vines with milk. Root like, light yellow. Leaves opposite; leaves ovate cordate or ovate lanceolate, 5-8 cm long. Apex acute, base cordate, both surfaces smooth or only with short hairs on upper veins. Cyme, axillary, 2-5 cm long; calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, hairy; corolla 5-lobed, lobes ovate, dark purple. Follicles fusiform, spreading nearly horizontally. There is a long white hair on the top of the seed. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from September to November.

Growing in the edge of hillside forest or roadside grass. It is distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang,

[chemical constituents] the plants of the same genus contain caryophylline, isocaryophylline and caryophylline, which have antitumor effects.

[pharmacological action] sinomenine has significant anti-tumor effects on adenocarcinoma-755, lymphosarcoma, lymphocytic leukemia P-388 and mouse lymphocytic leukemia L-1210. It has been put into clinical trial. However, it has been found to have irreversible toxicity to the central nervous system, so it is not used.

[flavor] pungent, warm and slightly toxic.

① Jiangxi herbal medicine: "pungent, warm, with little poison. "

② Common folk herbs in Zhejiang Province: "Gan Xin, Wen". "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and phlegm, detoxify and disperse blood stasis. It is used to treat infantile convulsion, heatstroke, abdominal pain, asthma, phlegm cough, sore throat, stomachache, toothache, rheumatism pain, and traumatic injury.

① Jiangxi herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, dredging meridians and dispersing blood stasis. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "dispelling wind, relieving cough, resolving phlegm, detumescence and detoxification. "

③ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "dispersing blood stasis, inducing vomiting. It can treat asthma, phlegm cough, sore throat, traumatic injury, rheumatism pain, stomachache and abdominal pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; grind or pound juice. External use: tamping.

[taboo] Zhejiang folk herbs: "pregnant women and the weak should use it with caution. "

[selection] 1. To treat infantile convulsion: two coins of fresh root of waerteng. Half a bowl of cold boiled water is filled with juice. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

② Treatment of heatstroke abdominal pain: waer tenggen three money, decoction; or powder swallow, one money each time. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of diphtheria: one or two fresh roots of waer vine. Mash juice, several times a day. If you can't take it orally, you can use nasal feeding.

④ Treatment of traumatic injury: appropriate amount of waer vine root, dry in the sun and grind at the end. Two yuan each time, water and wine.

⑤ Treatment of joint swelling and pain: appropriate amount of fresh root of waer vine, a little alcohol. Smash the external application.

⑥ Treatment of bamboo leaf snake bite: one or two for each of waer vine root, Sapium sebiferum leaf, lobelia semipinnata, and plowweed (all fresh). Smash the external application. (3) Jiangxi herbal medicine

⑦ Treatment of stomatitis: waer tenggen three to four money. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑧ Treatment of periodontitis: waer vine root one money five points, amaranth stem two money five points. Add the right amount of white sugar and take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

Chinese PinYin : Wa Er Teng