Julien

Julien

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] wupaolian, Yangchou, Ruyi grass and muplow vegetable (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] the whole plant and rhizome of Violaceae.

Spade

Perennial herbs. Rhizome thick, inclined, many nodes. There are brown stipules, leaves from the rhizome cluster, with long petioles; leaves broad heart-shaped, apex sharp, margin obtuse serrate. Flower stems axillary, as long as petioles; flowers solitary, large, white or lavender; calyx 5, base extended into ear shape; petal 5, lower 1, base spurred, spur short and round; stamens short, 5, lower 2, base of stamens with nectary appendages, extending into the spur. Ovary superior, with blunt head. Capsule elliptic, with brown glandular spots. The flowering period is from April to May.

It grows under the forest and beside the stream. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc.

[collection] harvest after autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "cold, slightly sweet, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Treatment of breast carbuncle, swelling, toxin, knife wound, hemoptysis.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "eliminate blood stasis, activate blood circulation, detoxify. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, detoxifying and stopping bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] external use: mash compress. Oral: soak in wine.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of breast redness, swelling and pain: Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Cucumis, Rhizoma ilex. Mash with distiller's grains or stir fry with wine for external application.

② Treatment of unknown swelling poison: wupaolian smashed, applied to the affected area.

③ Treatment of knife wound: the fresh grass of Wulian is mashed and applied to the wound. In case of suppuration, sawn wood was added.

④ Treatment of hemoptysis: wupaolian rhizome one or two. Wine making clothes. (Guizhou folk medicine was selected)

Chinese PinYin : Wu Lian