Carve vegetables

Carve vegetables

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] loutaicao and yurongcao (materia medica of Southern Yunnan), Leonurus japonicus (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), primordium bicolor and Salvia miltiorrhiza (records of Chinese medicinal plants).

[source] it is the whole plant of chelidae.

[plant morphology] chacai

Herbs annual, all coarser. Stem erect, more than 40-100 cm high, square, 4-angled, nodose, densely covered with inverted hairs. The leaves are thick, leathery, opposite, with grayish white hairs on both sides; the lower leaves have long petioles, ovate or pinnate, 3-lobed, apex acute, base cuneate, margin coarsely serrated and ciliated; the middle leaves have short petioles, lanceolate, ovate, coarsely serrated; the leaves on the branches are sessile, elliptic to oblanceolate, entire. Flowers numerous, axillary ring-shaped, sessile; bracts linear to lanceolate, or spiny, hairy; calyx campanulate, outside densely hairy, 5-veined, calyx teeth 5, apex spiny, upper 3 teeth similar, triangular, lower 2 teeth larger; corolla white, often purplish, 1.3 cm long, 2 lips, upper lip spoon shaped, apex concave, ciliate, lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe obcordate; stamens 4 Ovary 4-lobed, style filiform, stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets black, 3-sided, smooth. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from October to November.

Born on hillside, roadside and wasteland. It is distributed in Northeast, North China, central China, East China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] Gan Xin, Ping.

① "Materia medica collection": "pungent, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "sour sweet, hot, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the collection of materia medica: "it can break blood. Postpartum abdominal pain, boiling juice to take; also smash the application of sores. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "it is mainly used to treat all kinds of flaccid muscles and bones, removing Yang and Yin, sweating at night, traumatic injuries, women's blood collapse and bone grafting. Take the leaf to burn the ash to take, treat all children black pox and top depression; stem: treat the stomach pain or yin disease of strangulated bowel Sha, take three coins with wine. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or grinding powder. External use: mash or grind the end of the application.

[should not] pregnant women should take it carefully.

[prescription selection] ① for postpartum abdominal pain: three coins for vegetables, two coins for peach kernel and two coins for safflower. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Liaoning)

② Treatment of menstrual period is not accurate, waist and abdominal pain: carved vegetables three money, cockscomb five money, Rubia three money. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Liaoning)

Chinese PinYin : Zan Cai