Xiaoshiwei

Xiaoshiwei

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonyms] fanshicao (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), feijingcao, Renfa (Guizhou folk medicine), Desmodium (Guangxi medicine plant list).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Polypodiaceae similar to Pyrrosia chinensis.

[plant morphology] similar to Pyrrosia chinensis

Perennial herbs. Rhizome creeping, densely covered with needlelike scaly hairs, yellowish brown, internode distance 5-8 mm. Single leaf erect, lanceolate, 6-8 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, apex acuminate, sometimes anterior dilated into oblanceolate, entire, base cuneate, semi leathery and thick, upper green, densely stellate hair when tender, old gradually falling, with many yellow glandular dots, glandular dots concave after stem, lateral veins not visible, lower light green with light yellow, densely covered with stellate hair, main veins thick and raised; The petiole has nodes, and the nodes are very short. The pericysts are round, 2-4 rows on each side of the main vein, yellowish brown.

On bark of tree trunk, stone wall and wet place. Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other places.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "cool in nature, bitter and astringent in taste. "

[function indications] antispasmodic, diuretic, hemostatic. Treatment of infantile convulsion, traumatic bleeding.

① "Guizhou folk medicine": hemostasis, antispasmodic. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "diuresis, analgesia, cough, menstruation. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoct soup, 5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: take the spore powder from the back of leaf and sprinkle it.

[selection] ① treatment of knife wound: scrape the yellow powder on the back of the leaves of feijingcao and apply it to the wound, which can stop bleeding and close the mouth. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of epilepsy: Feijing grass root 2 liang, Chuanwu, Caowu, Nanxing each 5 Qian, Xuejie 4 Qian, natural copper (vinegar calcined) 3 Qian, lizhugen 3 Liang, talc 1 2, borax 5 Qian, soak with wine. If the patient is strong or seriously ill, the amount can be increased as appropriate. (Guizhou folk medicine)

③ Treatment of infantile convulsion: five money of flying convulsion grass. Take it in boiling water. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Xiao Shi Wei