Faeces root

Faeces root

(classified herbal medicine)

[synonym] yangnaigen (classified herbal medicine), yangshizigen (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records).

[source] it is the root of loniceraceae.

[plant morphology] heihantiao, also known as niushichai (business of heaven and earth), yangshichai (compendium), yangshitiao (classified herbal), grey cat, yangtongtiao, grey pig vine, lengfantuan, yangshizi.

Evergreen shrubs, up to 2 m high. Branches slender, cylindrical, densely gray white or rusty stellate pubescent. Leaf blade elliptic ovate, 4-12 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, rarely acuminate, base rounded, entire or microwave-shaped, dark green above, slightly glossy below, densely covered with gray white stellate pubescence, veins 5-10 pairs, raised below, base 2 pairs opposite. Terminal cyme, The inflorescence is 4.5-9 cm in diameter, the pedicel has stellate hairs, and the flowers are small and white. Calyx tube short, 5-lobed, persistent; corolla whorled, lobes 5; stamens 5, inserted in corolla; ovary inferior, 1-locular, ovule 1, pendulous. Berry shaped drupe, ovoid, slightly compressed, black: 1 seed, compressed. The flowering period is May. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows in hills, roadsides, forest sides, grave slopes, barren hills and shrubs. It is distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] ① Guiyang folk herbs: "sour, astringent, flat, non-toxic. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

[function indications] for dysentery, lower blood, hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, rheumatic arthralgia, leucorrhea, dampness, sores and bruises.

① "Gangmu": "the main carbuncle hair back, smash the application. Can close sores, scattered pus blood, dry for the end, serous water transfer application. And then the blood is poured like water, and the root is taken for a catty, and the two Baijiu is boiled. "

② Classification of herbal medicine: "root: treatment of hemorrhoids, itching.". Flower: treatment of wool, injury. "

③ "Guizhou folk medicine collection": "for the convergence of medicine, with the treatment of dysentery, women leucorrhea. "

④ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "root or leaf: treat rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, waist and rib fullness, falling damage and stasis. "

⑤ Wash the sores and sores. (Sichuan)

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 1-2 Liang. External use: decocting, washing, tamping or grinding.

[formula selection] 1. Treatment of heat dysentery: one or two pieces of sheep dung and seven pieces of ginger. Take it in boiling water. (Guiyang folk herbs)

② Treatment of hemorrhoids and prolapse: sheep excrement root two liang, stew pig large intestine to eat. (Guiyang folk herbs)

Chinese PinYin : Yang Shi Tiao Gen