In the snow

In the snow

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] snake pine nut (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Zhejiang Province), landmine and abduction drug (medicine records of Hunan Province).

[source] it is the root or leaf of Clematis simplicifolia (Ranunculaceae).

[plant morphology] Clematis simplicifolia

Evergreen Liana. The root is long and thin, the middle part of which is expanded, showing a narrow spindle root tuber, and the surface is yellowish brown. Stem thin, with edge line, sparsely white pubescent. Single leaf opposite, long ovate or ovate lanceolate, 7-16 cm in length and 2-6 cm in width, apex acuminate, base shallowly cordate, margin sparsely shallowly serrate, thin papery, with white short hairs or subglabrous on the lower veins, veins 5, petiole 3.5-5.5 cm long. Cymes axillary, usually 1-flowered, sometimes 3-5-flowered, pedicel slender; perianth 4, ovate, 1-2 cm long, white or light yellow, outside densely covered with white pubescence; stamens numerous, filaments covered with white pubescence. Achene oblate ovate, pubescent, pinnate. Style 3. 5 cm long. The flowering period is from November to December. The fruiting period is from March to April of the next year.

In shady hillside forest edge or stream side shrub. It is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River.

[nature and taste] Hunan Medical Records: "hard work, warm, non-toxic. "

[function indications] it can promote qi and blood circulation, resist bacteria and inflammation, and relieve pain in head, stomach, abdomen, muscles and joints. It also treats tracheitis, sores, swelling, and injuries.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocting soup, 1-3 yuan, wine grinding juice, 0.5-1 yuan. External use: Wine grinding or tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure high fever and acute convulsion: take root in snow for three to four dollars, grind the juice with boiled rice swill, and take it once in the morning and once before dinner.

② Treatment of sore throat: xuelikaigen three money, with boiling rice swill water grinding juice, gargle.

③ Treat headache when for: xuelikaigen, a few leaves money, and pig brain, water fried chongjiufu.

④ Treatment of heat toxin sores: snow in the open leaves mashed application. (1) records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang Province

⑤ Treatment of acute and chronic tracheitis: Xueli kaigen Sanqian, Baiying quancao Sanqian, horseshoe gold quancao Sanqian. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑥ Treatment of stomachache, abdominal pain, scraping, vomiting: mine a money, grinding wine orally.

⑦ Treatment of traumatic injury: mine a money, grinding wine oral, and external coating injury.

⑧ Cure carsickness vomiting: mine 3 to 5 minutes, chew in the mouth, can wake up and stop vomiting. (6) the following prescriptions are published in the medical records of Hunan Province.)

[clinical application] analgesic

The injection was made from the dried root of Clematis simplicifolium, containing 1g crude drug per ml. Intramuscular injection: 2 ml for adults, 1 ml for children over 2 years old and 0.5 ml for children under 2 years old. It can be used repeatedly when necessary. Clinical observation of 100 cases showed that 32 cases were markedly effective (pain disappeared), 33 cases were effective (pain relieved), 19 cases were relieved (pain relieved), and 16 cases were ineffective. It is effective for abdominal pain, wound pain, joint pain, muscle pain and headache. Most of them are effective within 15 minutes after injection, and the patient will soon fall asleep quietly, which may have sedative effect on the central nervous system. No adverse reactions were found. In addition, a pill made of tuberous root powder was also used. Adults took 9 grams of it once a day to treat 256 cases of gastric spasm. Most of them achieved rapid analgesic effect.

Chinese PinYin : Xue Li Kai