Xingxiu vegetable

Xingxiu vegetable

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Polygonum pseudolae, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (flora of Guangzhou), red root grass (Fujian folk herbal medicine), red air root, red seven grass, golden chicken feet, Baijian grass, Ranae grass (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), yellow loach channeling, red head rope, blood silk grass (Jiangxi Folk herbal medicine), red heart (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resource list), red muscle Tsai (Mindong materia medica), Datian Jihuang, maqueli（ "Guangxi Folk commonly used herbal medicine", hongjincao, dimuhui, baxuehong, hongxiangzi, honggencao, tiananchai (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine), dingjingcao, Shuike, honggenzi, aihezi (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of Primulaceae.

[plant morphology] Astragalus

Perennial weak herbs. The rhizome grows creeping branches. The stem is often branched, with black spots, red base, 30-70 cm high. Leaves alternate; broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4-9 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, apex short pointed or acuminate, base gradually narrowed, nearly sessile, with dark brown glands on the surface and raised after drying. Inflorescence long racemose, slightly glandular hairy; bracts triangular lanceolate, ca. 2 mm long, pedicel 1-3 mm long; calyx 5-lobed, lobes elliptic ovate, apex obtuse, margin ciliate, membranous, middle with black spots, ca. 1.5 mm long; corolla white, ca. 3 mm long, throat with short glandular hairy, lobes 5-obovate, apex obtuse, back with black spots; stamens 5, inserted in flowers In the middle of corolla, filament is short, glandular hairy; style is shorter than stamen. Capsule globose, about 2-2.5 mm in diameter. The flowering period is July. The fruit ripens in September.

Born in the water, roadside, wetland. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Hunan, Hubei and other places.

[collection] collected from April to August, fresh or dried.

[flavor] bitter and astringent, flat.

① "Save famine Materia Medica": "taste bitter. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, smooth. "

③ "Mindong Materia Medica": "it tastes sour and bitter, and its nature is slightly warm. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, promoting diuresis and removing dampness. It is used to treat traumatic injuries, rheumatic arthritis, amenorrhea, mastitis, scrofula, red eyes, swelling, edema, jaundice, malaria and dysentery.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, promoting blood stasis, diuresis and removing water. "

② "Jiangxi folk herbal medicine": "it is used to treat swelling and pain of wounds, swelling and pain of red eyes, and malaria. "

③ "Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources directory": "treatment of hematemesis, cough. "

④ "Mindong Materia Medica": "promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, relaxing tendons and reducing swelling. Treatment of irregular menstruation, blood deficiency, cold and heat, scrotal swelling, traumatic injury, fractures, hemorrhoids, bone soreness. "

⑤ "Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs": "treatment of infantile malnutrition, hernia, jaundice, heart and stomach pain, eye heat, swelling, drenching, tuberculosis, cough. "

⑥ "Treating gastritis, mastitis, otitis media, women's leucorrhea. "

⑦ Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and activating qi, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals. Treatment of heat stroke, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, scrofula, mastitis, centipede sting. "

[usage and dosage] oral; decoction, 3-5 yuan (fresh 1-3 Liang). External use: tamping or boiling water fumigation.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure the swelling and pain caused by falls and injuries: five to seven yuan of Xingxiu vegetable root, fried with water and wine; chopped and mashed with fresh whole grass and scallion, sprinkled with fermented grains, then mashed well, applied to the injured area, and changed once a day. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatism pain: Xingxiu vegetable, Polygonum hydropiper root each three Liang, nanfengteng two Liang. Half water and half wine. Such as tendon pain, star vegetables and old wine stew service. (Mindong materia medica)

③ Treatment of abdominal pain in the Department of diarrhea: Xingxiu dried whole grass one or two, a little salt, water fried service. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

④ For women with amenorrhea: two to three liang of Astragalus, one or two liang of brown sugar. Drink rice wine and water in half, fry into a half bowl, take before meals, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, adverse urination: Xingxiu Caigen one or two. Fried in water, mixed with liqueur. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑥ Treat eye red swelling and pain: Xingxiu Caigen five to seven money, fried in water. Wash with one or two boiling water. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑦ Cure all over the body edema: Xingxiu dish 1 to 2 liang. Drink water, fry into half a bowl, take before meals, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑧ Treat jaundice hepatitis; star vegetables root, wild pumpkin root, big green root, white grass root each one or two, pure meat three Liang, water stew service, daily dose. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑨ Treatment of malaria: five to seven dollars for Xingxiu Caigen. The first one was taken two hours before the occurrence of malaria, and the second one was taken as tea. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑩ Treatment of blood dysentery: two star vegetables. Mash and rinse with honey or yellow sugar. (commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

(11) cure cold, ache all over the body: Xingxiu vegetables 2 to 3 Liang. With brown sugar half two, a total of half a bowl, rice shield two hours service. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

(12) treatment of hemorrhoids: half a jin of Xingxiu vegetables. Fry soup to wash the affected area. (Mindong materia medica)

⒀ treatment of snake bite: mash the whole grass of fresh Xingxiu vegetables, grind the juice, drink rice wine, and apply the residue to the wound. (Mindong materia medica)

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