Spatholobus Spatholobus

(materia medica seeks the original)

[synonym] white faced water chicken (Luchuan materia medica), white backed silk (raw herbal medicine manual), white silk (Lingnan herbal medicine records), satin rattan, silver backed rattan (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), and yipisian (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the stem and leaf of helianthaceae.

[plant morphology] Spatholobus Spatholobus

Twining vines. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 5-11 cm long, 3-9 cm wide, apex short pointed or obtuse, base rounded or sometimes microcordate, glabrous or nearly glabrous above, densely covered with silver close pubescence below. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, capitate or umbelliform; peduncle 3.5-7 cm long, densely silvery pilose; petiole short, about 5 mm or less long; bracts large, sepals 5, oblong ovate or ovate, outer 9-10 mm long, inner smaller, outer densely silvery pilose; corolla bucket like, white, 2.7-2.8 cm long, outer silvery thinned, lobes oblong, 1.5 cm long Outside; stamens 5; ovary 4-locular, style linear. Fruit subglobose, about 8 cm in diameter, carmine colored, surrounded by ovate sunken persistent calyx. It blooms in autumn.

Born on the hillside. It is distributed all over South China.

The root of this plant is also used for medicine. See special section for details.

In Yunnan, it is also used for medicine, and its curative effect is similar.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[herbal medicine] dry stem and leaf, stem twisted, surface dark gray brown, with longitudinal grooves, section green white, with obvious vascular bundles, light brown. Leaves slightly curly, brittle, dark brown to purple on the surface, light gray green on the back, close to silky hairs. Soft touch.

It is produced in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[nature and taste] 1. Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "bitter, pungent, cool. "

② "Lingnan herbal medicine annals": "the taste is slightly sour and bitter, and the nature is cool. "

Functions and indications: Resolving Phlegm and relieving cough, regulating blood and dispelling wind. Treatment of heat cough, phlegm asthma, hematemesis, collapse, belt, injury, rheumatism pain, sore poison.

① "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "the application of leaves on rotten feet will transform the rotten sores. "

② According to the collection of herbs in the south of the five ridges: "Gu Zhang, he MI and Huang Tang are mashed and fried for fragrant food; He Jian Tang is smoked and steamed for swelling. "

③ "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": "Ye: treating lung heat, cough, phlegm and asthma. "

④ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "phlegm, lung, cough, hemostasis. Treatment of tuberculosis, mastitis, water and fire burns. "

⑤ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "regulating blood, dispelling wind, dehumidification. Treatment of traumatic injury, internal and external bleeding and women's blood collapse, leucorrhea. "

⑥ Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "Shujin Huoluo, Qufeng dehumidification, cough phlegm, regulating menstruation and hemostasis. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatic pain, acute and chronic bronchitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: fumigation or tamping with boiling water.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of acute and chronic bronchitis: White Crane dipped in (dry) five money to one or two, decoction. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

② Treatment of internal injury and hematemesis: one silk leaf, one silk leaf, one dragon bud grass, one or two each, fried in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of metrorrhagia: one silk leaf, one leaf, one or two Longya grass, mashed, fried. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine) two purple bracts, three to four leaves of yinbeiteng, grind and serve with wine. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of bruise and stasis, meridian disharmony: one silk or two, fried with water, washed with wine. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of leucorrhea: a silk one or two, small five money, one or two, fried in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Cure sore poison, rotten foot: White Crane vine, silver flower vine decoct water wash, have antiphlogistic, corrupt, poison effect. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Bai He Teng