Seven Scorpions

Seven Scorpions

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] red scorpion seven (abstracts of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, 1962), red powder and monkey seven (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), wild sorghum (treatment manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine), ranbo (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the rhizome of Polygonum viviparum and Polygonum rotundum.

[plant morphology] 1

Perennial herbs. Rhizome thick, thick, the lower part of the roll, like a scorpion. Stem erect, unbranched, slender, 10-32 cm high. The root leaves and the lower leaves of the stem have long petioles; the leaves are oblong, ovate or lanceolate, 3-6 cm long and 0.8-2.8 cm wide, the apex is short pointed or acuminate, the base is round or cuneate, sometimes microcordate, the edge is slightly revolute, leathery, glabrous on both sides, rare white and soft hairs; the upper leaves of the stem are sessile, lanceolate, smaller; the stipule sheath is long cylindrical, membranous, brown, and the apex is oblique. Inflorescence terminal, 3-7.5cm long, flowers dense; bract membranous, light brown, broadly ovate, acute, with 1 bulbil or 1-2 flowers; bulbil broadly ovate, brown, usually in the lower part of inflorescence; perianth 5-lobed, lobes broadly elliptic or nearly obovate, white or pink; stamens 8-9, anthers dark purple; style 3. Nutlets trigonous ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, dark brown. It blooms in summer.

In forest, grassland or alpine tundra. Distributed in Northeast, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places.

② Polygonum capitatum

Perennial herb, 10-35 cm high, rhizome thick. Stem unbranched, erect, usually 2-3, arising from rhizome. The basal leaves are oblong or lanceolate, 5-15 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, apex acute, base suborbicular, margin slightly retrovolved downward, glabrous or pilose below; cauline leaves are subsessile, smaller, narrowly lanceolate or strip-shaped; Stipule sheath tubular, membranous, with obvious veins. Inflorescence terminal; flowers closely arranged, white or reddish; perianth 5-lobed, lobes oblong, with an obvious vein on the back; stamens 8, longer than perianth; style 3, stigma capitate. Achenes ovate, 3-ribbed, yellowish brown, glossy. It blooms in summer.

Born in alpine grassland. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Tibet.

The rhizome of Polygonum taibaiense is also used as scorpion seven medicine. The main differences are as follows: leaf blade ovate lanceolate, 10-18 cm long; petiole narrow. The flower has no bulbil and is red.

[collection] collect in summer and autumn, remove fibrous roots, wash, slice and dry.

[medicinal material] the dried rhizome is massive, twisted and sometimes hook shaped. The surface is brownish red to brownish black, with wrinkles and most verrucous protuberances, and many slender fibrous roots, reddish brown or grayish brown, are attached under it. Solid quality. The section is oblate, light red, granular, with dark color in the central part and a circle of vascular bundles around the central part. The air is slightly smelly and the taste is bitter and astringent.

Produced in Shaanxi.

Another kind of white scorpion seven (also known as white powder) is the rhizome of Polygonum macrophyllum, which has the same function as this species.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and astringent, cool. "

Functions and indications: stop bleeding, activate blood circulation and stop diarrhea. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, blood avalanche, leucorrhea, dysentery, traumatic injury.

① "Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine": "convergence, hemostasis, tourniquet. Treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, intestinal wind under the blood, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, hematemesis, traumatic bleeding. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "treatment of falling damage, swelling, blood stasis and pain, smash the affected part. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: grind and sprinkle.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia: Scorpion seven, deer holding grass each three money, golden ribbon, taiqianghuo, lion seven each two money. Take it in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Cure dysentery: Scorpion 72-4 money. Decoct in boiling water, add red and white sugar. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Xie Zi Qi