Duck foot bark

Duck foot bark

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

Another name: xijiapi (Luchuan materia medica) and yajiaopi (Lingnan herbs).

[source] it is the root bark and bark of Hedysarum chinense.

[plant morphology] Eupatorium odoratum, also known as Yajiao tree (essential preparation of raw herbs), Yajiao tree (Lingnan medicine collection record), duck mother tree, duck mother claw, male and female tree, umbrella support tree, wuzhitong, Yazhang Chai.

Trees or shrubs, 2-15m high. The leaves are palmately compound, 5-9 leaflets, leathery, elliptic or oblong ovate, 7-17 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, almost bald, apex acute, base acute to obtuse, entire; petiole 8-25 cm long, petiole 2-5 cm long; stipules semicircular. Flowers small, white, fragrant, umbel shaped; calyx hairy or glabrous, margin with 5-6 fine teeth; petals 5, fleshy, 2-3 mm long; stamens 5; pistils 1, ovary 5-locular, flowers short, less than 1 mm long. Drupe globose, 3-4 mm in diameter. It blooms in winter.

Growing in broad-leaved forest or sunny hillside. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan.

The roots and leaves of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[medicinal materials] the dried bark is oblong and flaky, slightly curved inward, 3-5.5cm long, 2.5-3.5cm wide and 0.2-0.3cm thick. It is dark gray on the outside, with no obvious transverse pores, and gray brown and smooth on the inside. The cork is easy to fall off because of its loose texture. Sometimes, the piece of endothelium can be seen. The cross section is strong fibrous and can be peeled off layer by layer. The air is slightly fragrant.

It is produced in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[chemical constituents] the bark contains phenols, amino acids and organic acids.

[flavor] bitter and astringent, cool.

① "Root skin: astringent in taste, flat in nature. "

② "The taste is bitter. "

③ "Bitter and astringent, cool" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou army. "

Functions and indications: sweating, relieving exterior, dispelling wind and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. Treatment of cold, fever, sore throat, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic injury, fracture.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "root bark: cure wine disease, wash rotten feet, apply Dieda, steam ten times and sun nine times, soak wine and dispel wind. "

② "Lingnan medicine collection record": "for the treatment of bansha poison, take it in boiling water. "

③ "Lu Chuan Materia Medica" said: "the bone is broken to stop bleeding, detumescence and pain. It is used to treat rheumatism, bone pain, traumatic fracture, swelling and pain, knife wound and bleeding. "

④ "Removing dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, clearing stomach and intestines, accumulating dampness and stagnancy of liquor" is one of the main contents of Lingnan herbal medicine. "

⑤ "Sweating, relieving exterior, dispelling wind and removing dampness" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. It can cure flu fever, sore throat, rheumatism and bone pain, swelling and pain due to bruise. "

⑥ Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, clearing heat. Treatment of rheumatism, injuries, burns. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: fried with wine or boiled with water.

[selection] ① Jiegu recipe: Six taels of duck foot bark, four taels of plough leaf, four taels of banyan leaf and one rooster. Total mash, double wine fried hot compress the affected area, 24 hours to medicine, add wine fried hot iron affected area. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

② Treatment of red and white dysentery: duck foot bark to skin, wash, a steam a sun, with four Liang, decoction. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: Six taels of duck foot bark, one jin of wine. Take it twice a day for five to one or two dollars each time. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

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