Yudai root
(drug records of Nanning City)
[synonyms] coralline twig (raw herbal medicine), slipper flower, coralline (flora of Guangzhou), centalus herb, twisted herb (flora of Nanning City), hemostatic herb (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).
[source] it is the whole plant of cardinal coral in Euphorbiaceae.
[plant morphology] cardinal coral
Subshrub semierect, 60-100 cm high. Stem fleshy, dark green, cylindrical, 6-12 mm thick, often wavy curved, with milk. Leaves ovate to ovate oblong, 5-10 cm long, short pointed, base slightly narrow and irregularly retrovolved, midrib raised on the back of leaves. Cymes in cup shape are dense terminal compound cymes; involucre is bright red or purple, about 1 cm long, with glandular bodies on the upper base, except that the apical lobes have eyelashes And style are prominent. Capsule ca. 6 mm. The flowering period is between summer and autumn.
It is often cultivated in Guangzhou and Nanning.
[collection] the whole plant should be used, and fresh is the best.
[flavor] sour, cold and poisonous.
① "Nanning medicine annals": "sour, salty, slightly astringent, cool nature, little poison. "
② "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "acid slightly astringent, cold nature, a small poison. "
Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying, analgesia and hemostasis. It can cure sore, swelling, pain, trauma, bleeding and burning eye.
① "The record of Lingnan medicine collection" says: "the treatment of big sores can kill scabies and insects. There is white juice in it. Take it to wipe tinea. "
② "Nanning drug records": "take anti-inflammatory and analgesic, treat low back pain. Stem and leaf: tamping treatment of redness, swelling, pain and injury. "
③ Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat and detoxification, hemostasis and muscle regeneration. It is used to treat boils, sores, traumatic bleeding. "
[usage and dosage] external use: tamping. Oral: decoction, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan.
[taboo] "it is forbidden to take medicine for people with deficient cold constitution. "
[prescription selection] ① for sore swelling and pain: appropriate amount of twisted grass, Achyranthes bidentata, nanshelemiao. Mash and apply to the affected area.
② Treatment of traumatic bleeding: appropriate amount of twisted grass mashed, applied to the affected area.
③ Treatment of red swelling and pain: twisted grass leaves appropriate amount, borneol a little. Total tamping, external application of the affected eye. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)
Chinese PinYin : Yu Dai Gen
Yudai root
The root of Sargassum villosum. Mao Da Ding Cao Gen