Lantana camara

Lantana camara

(records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] shandadan, Dahong Hydrangea, coral ball (notes of Nanyue), longchuanhua (textual research on the name and reality of plants), chojinfeng, Ruyi flower, faint flower (record of Lingnan medicine Collection), qibianhua (important economic flora of North China), Ruyi grass (flora of Guangzhou), tuhonghua, yumudan, shachonghua (flora of Nanning City), maoshenhua (folk herbal medicine of South Fujian Province), and Chou flower Lengfeng (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals), Tianlan (Hunan traditional Chinese medicine annals), Chou Cao (Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), wuse Hua, Wulei Jian, Chuanqiang Feng (Guangxi Traditional Chinese herbal medicine), yeyan CAI (Jiangxi traditional Chinese herbal medicine manual), wucai Hua, honghuaci, Pojie Hua (Fujian traditional Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the leaf of Lantana camara or the tender branch with flower leaf.

[plant morphology] Lantana camara (notes of South Vietnam)

Erect or semi rattan shrub, with strong odor, slightly hairy, 1-2 meters high, often times as high as rattan; stems and branches without thorns or with lower hook thorns. Leaves opposite; ovate or oblong ovate, 3-9 cm long, apex short acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin obtuse toothed, with short bristles on the top and setae on the bottom. The inflorescence is dense, with corolla 2-3.5 cm wide; the peduncle is axillary, stout, often longer than the leaf; the bracts are narrow and long, about 1 / 3-1 / 2 of the corolla; the Corolla is pink, red, yellow or orange red, about 1 cm long. Corolla simple slender, lobes 4-5; stamens 4, not exposed; ovary 2-locular. Drupe globose, fleshy, about 5 mm long, purple black at maturity, with 2 bony minute nuclei. Flowering period: flowering all year round.

Wild in the village or cut in the garden. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

The root and flower of this plant are also used for medicine: please refer to the special section for details.

Bitter, cold.

① "Nanning drug records": "bitter, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "bitter taste, cold nature, non-toxic. "

③ "Xin Liang" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army. "

④ Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes sweet and pungent, and its nature is cool. "

Functions and indications: detumescence and detoxification, dispelling wind and relieving itching. It can cure carbuncle, dampness, scabies and poisonous sores.

① "Washing dampness, poison and scabies" is the key point of Lingnan medicine collection. "

② "Drug records of Nanning city": "Ye: treating scabies, purpura and poisonous sores, stopping bleeding by falling. Flower: it can stop bleeding. "

③ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine": "Qufeng Zhiyang, Xiaozhong Zhitong, Sandu, apply large intestine ulcer carbuncle. "

④ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "whole herb: antipyretic, insecticidal, antipruritic, eliminate sore. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or mash juice to make wine. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[taboo] Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "pregnant women should not take it. "

[selection] 1. Treatment of toxic nuclear disease: mash the leaves of choujinfengye, take the natural juice, and take it with double steamed wine. Mash the leaves, add a little brown sugar and borneol, apply them on the core, and change them from time to time to cool and relieve pain. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

② Treatment of tendon injury: mash the fresh leaves of maoshenhua, wipe the affected area, and then apply it with slag. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of dermatitis, eczema and pruritus: wash the fresh branches and leaves of Lantana camara with decocting water

④ It can be used to treat injuries and sprains. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

⑤ Treatment of cold and wind heat: one or two colorful flowers and leaves, five sesame seeds. Fried in water, twice a day. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

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