Little Golden Cherry

Little Golden Cherry

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonym] hongziteng (classified herbal medicine), shanmuxiang, Mingmu tea (Chinese tree taxonomy), xiaoheshangteng (Chongqing herbal medicine), jiecocoon, goushici, xiaocihua, qicijia, jingciye, jigongzi, wujialian (Hunan medicinal records), qijiezi, Yuganzi, Qingci (Zhejiang Tianmu medicinal records).

[source] it is the root and tender leaf of Rosa microcarpa.

[plant morphology] Rosa microcarpa

Deciduous vine shrub, about 5 meters high. Branchlets slender, with curved prickles. Leaflets 3-7, elliptic or ovate lanceolate, 1-6 cm long and 0.7-2 cm wide, apex acuminate or obtuse, base cuneate, rounded, margin serrate, smooth on both sides; petiole thin, 1-2 cm long; stipules pointed, free from petiole, caducous. Flowers white, ca. 2 cm in diam., apex of each collecting branch forming a corymb; sepals 5. Abaxial surface with spiny hairs; petals 5, ovate, alternate with sepals; stamens many, lateral filament long, medial filament short, drug yellow; pistils many, ovary superior, laurel protruding calyx tube, pubescent. Rose fruit small, globose, 5 mm or longer in diameter, red at maturity. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows in warm hillside or hilly area. It is distributed in Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc.

The fruit of this plant (Rosa laevigata) is used for medicinal purposes. The flower is used as rose flower in Jiangsu Province, see "rose flower".

[collection] it can be collected all year round, and October to November is the best.

Bitter and smooth.

① "The nature of raw herbs" is warm. "

② Chongqing herbal medicine: "bitter taste, flat nature, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: disperse blood stasis, stop bleeding, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of irregular menstruation, uterine prolapse, hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, sore poison, traumatic bleeding.

① "Root: it can kill blood. "

② Classified herbal medicine: "it can treat traumatic injuries, dissipate swelling and toxin; it can harmonize blood, and treat blood deficiency and hot flashes. "

③ "Lingnan caiyao Lu": "Ye: apply sore poison. "

④ Chongqing herbal medicine: "root or tender leaf: promoting Qi, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. Treatment of women's blood deficiency, uterine prolapse, men's hemorrhoids, prolapse. It is used for traumatic injury, rheumatism and pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-2 Liang; or soaking in wine. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① for irregular menstruation and black blistering of menstrual water: five liang of young monk's vine root, three liang of scraper, two liang of crimson ear root. Stewed chicken or meat.

② Treatment of anal prolapse: Xiaohe shangteng 42, fig 22. Stewed meat.

③ Treatment of uterine prolapse: Xiaohe shangteng two liang, landing money two Liang. Stewed meat.

④ Treatment sore ulceration for a long time, little yellow water pus, long time does not produce mouth: xiaoheshangteng tender leaves tamping. (1) Chongqing herbal medicine

⑤ Treatment of urination bleeding: one or two fresh rose roots, Achyranthes bidentata, Agrimonia pilosa each one to two money, fried in water, sooner or later before conversion to take one time. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

⑥ Treatment of asthma: shanmuxianggen five money to one or two, cooked pig lung food. (Hunan medical records)

⑦ Treatment of fatigue and rheumatism pain at the beginning: small fruit rose root three to four Liang, decoction. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[clinical application] for general traumatic bleeding

The root bark was washed, chopped, dried, milled and sieved, soaked in 20 times water for 24 hours (including heating for 2 hours) and filtered. The filter residue was dried in the sun, then milled and sieved, and sterilized for standby. 56 cases of superficial laceration of extremities, epistaxis and nail bed bleeding after nail removal were treated. Generally, 0.5-1g was placed on the wound, and then sterilized gauze was used for light pressure to achieve hemostatic effect. The shortest hemostasis time was 5 seconds, the longest was 3 minutes, the average was about 30 seconds. Follow up of 55 cases showed no adverse reactions. 51 cases of wounds healed in the first stage without pigmentation, and 4 cases of wounds had mild infection. It was clinically proved that the product had hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effects on body surface trauma bleeding, and also had certain effect on mucosal bleeding (such as epistaxis).

Chinese PinYin : Xiao Jin Ying