Bell grass

Bell grass

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] Arachis hypogaea (flora of China), Herba Sophorae, Lilium flaviflorum (Leguminosae), Ma Xiangling (the collated edition of Yunnan materia medica), linglingzi (flora of Chinese materia medica of Sichuan), Xiaoqiu Xiangling, pseudodigitaria, Digitaria, Vicia, maxiaolian, wild pea (Yunnan herbal medicine), Ma Lingling Grass, resounding grass and hechengcao (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of the leguminous plant Rhodiola.

[plant morphology] Rhodiola decora

Perennial herbs. The root length is more than 60 cm. The stem and branch are erect or slightly raised, usually with many branches; the stem, branch and leaf have slightly long and expanded hairs, which are slightly rough and slightly silky. Leaves alternate, rectangular, oblong ovate or oblong, 2-5 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, hairy on both sides, with the densest veins on the lower side, apex obtuse or apiculate, base narrow or slightly cuneate, lateral veins inconspicuous; stipules lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, reflexed. Racemes, terminal or simultaneously axillary. There are 2-6 flowers; calyx tube is very short, sepals lanceolate, unequal; corolla and sepals are as long as or longer than sepals, butterfly shaped, yellow, flag clawed, round, wing obovate oblong, shorter than flag, keel and wing equal, curved inward; stamen 10, monomer, anther 2-locular; ovary linear, style long, stigma slightly oblique. The pods inflate into vesicles, 2.5-3 cm long. Seeds 20-30, kidney shaped. The flowering period is from June to October.

Born on hillside and wasteland. It is widely distributed in China, especially in the southwest.

[collection] harvest in summer, dry in the sun, or cut into sections and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the whole plant is dry with round stems and yellow brown hairs. The leaves are curly, mostly exfoliative, oval or ovate, yellowish green. There are pods at the end of the branch, and most of the seeds fall off. Those with roots are long, round, with few branches. The fibrous roots are slender and the surface is yellowish brown.

Produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

In Sichuan Province, the whole herb of the same plants, such as Phaseolus vulgaris, Lilium indicum (see "Lilium indicum") and Phaseolus striatum, has the same medicinal value as this product.

[chemical constituents] the seed of Phaseolus vulgaris contains phaseoline, hypophaseoline, phaseoline, nilagirine, phaseoline, β - sitosterol, luteolin, Vitexin, Vitexin xyloside and phytoagglutinin which can agglutinate human type A and type B erythrocytes.

[pharmacological action] the seeds and leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris contain a lot of alkaloids, which can be absorbed through the whole skin. It is mainly toxic to the liver, but there is no anemia, decrease of serum total protein and prolongation of plasma thrombin time (rats). The leaves of flowering plants fed to goats can cause poisoning, and the dry matter will lose toxicity (see "wild lily" for its anti-tumor effect).

[taste] bitter, slightly sour, cold.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "cold in nature, bitter and slightly sour in taste. "

② "The smell is bitter. "

[Guijing] materia medica of Southern Yunnan: "into the lung. "

Functions and indications: astringent lung qi, tonifying spleen and kidney, diuresis, detumescence and toxin. It can be used to treat chronic nephritis, cystitis, kidney stones, tonsillitis, lymphadenitis, myxotoxin and sores.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "astringent lung qi, cough, expectorant, asthma. "

② "The picture of Materia Medica in the south of Yunnan" says: "it can cure the internal knot of stone drenching; it can smash and apply sores. "

③ "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "Buzhong Yiqi, treatment of tinnitus, dizziness, avalanche. Also Xie Huo Qing Re, Ping Gan Feng, detumescence pain. "

④ "Classified herbal medicine nature": "greatly tonifying spleen and kidney, treating deafness and Qi deficiency. "

⑤ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "Buzhong Yiqi, treating tinnitus, deafness, dizziness, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, and women's dry blood.". "

⑥ "Selection of Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan Province": it can promote diuresis, reduce inflammation, relieve asthma and cough. Treatment of chronic nephritis, cystitis, chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, lymphadenitis, kidney stones; irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea. "

⑦ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "detoxification through rash.". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or stewed meat. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① for chronic cough with blood in the sputum: stir fried with honey and fried in soup. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of tinnitus due to Qi deficiency: one or two bell grass and one pair of pig ears. Stew with salt.

③ Deafness after treatment: eight coins for linglingcao and three coins for Shichangpu. Take it in boiling water.

④ For the treatment of nocturnal spermatorrhea: five coins for linglingcao, five coins for yehansu, five coins for climbing rock dragon, five coins for maoyao and three coins for shuangshencao. Stewed meat.

⑤ Cure weak Qi fall: Ring grass root five money, a cloud three money. Stewed meat. (2) Guiyang folk herbs is listed below.)

⑥ Treatment of poison and sores: the whole grass of pseudo indigo, mashed and applied to the affected area. (Hunan medical records)

Chinese PinYin : Xiang Ling Cao