Camphor willow head

Camphor willow head

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonym] white stalagmite (Lingnan medicine collection record), Guangdong Shanglu (Lingnan herbal medicine record).

[source] rhizome of Zingiberaceae.

[plant morphology] closed sheath ginger, also known as water banana flower.

Tall herbaceous, 1.5-2.5m high. Rhizome massive, transverse, stem base nearly woody, usually upper branched. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, oblong to lanceolate, 15-20 cm long and 6-7 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudal, base rounded, entire, erect, parallel, pinnate veins slanting out from the center, densely covered with silky hairs below; leaf sheaths broad and closed. Inflorescence spicate, sessile; bracts imbricate, ovate, red, about 2 cm long, with thick and slightly sharp spines acuminate, each bract has a flower, its side has a bract, 1.2-1.5 cm long; calyx tubular, 1.8-2 cm long, red, apex 3-lobed; corolla tube short and large, lobes elliptic or ovate, 2.5 cm long, white or reddish, labellum ovate, white The ovary is 2-3-locular, with many ovules. Capsule globose, slightly woody, 1. 3 cm long, red. Seeds black, shiny, ca. 3 mm long. It blooms in autumn. The fruit period is winter.

It grows in the tidal wetland under the mountain and valley forest or in the shrub and grass along the stream, and distributes in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] all year round, but autumn is the best. After the rhizome is dug out, remove the fibrous roots, stems and leaves, sediment, and dry or slice them to dry.

[medicinal materials] the dried rhizomes are mostly cut into slices, about 2-6 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide and 2 mm thick. The cork is thin and smooth, grayish yellow or grayish brown, with sparse whorls and residual fine roots and root marks. The cross section is gray white, with numerous fibers and vascular bundles scattered. The fibers are not lignified or weakly lignified, soft and not irritating. The parenchyma cells contain starch granules unique to Zingiberaceae. The taste is mild and bitter. It is better to be thin, gray and no black.

Produced in Guangdong.

This product is used as Phytolacca in Guangdong area.

[chemical constituents] the dry rhizome contains 3.86% total sapogenin and 2.12% diosgenin. Tigogenin, various saponins and β - sitosterol glucoside were also found.

[pharmacological action] sapogenin from the root of Salix camphora has "anti-inflammatory" and "anti arthritis" effects on carrageenan and formaldehyde induced acute foot inflammation in rats, and significantly inhibits the inflammatory exudation of granulation sacs and the formation of granulation sacs induced by croton oil in rats.

It is pungent, cold and poisonous.

① "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": sour and pungent in taste, cold in nature, and poisonous. "

② "Lingnan caiyao Lu": "it is pungent in taste, flat in nature and poisonous. "

[function indications] Xingshui Xiaozhong. Treatment of edema, distension, white turbidity, carbuncle swelling and sores.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": it can treat edema, eliminate carbuncle, swelling and sores, drop fetus and kill insects. "

② "Lingnan caiyao Lu" says: "it can be used to treat ten kinds of water diseases. "

③ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine": "treatment of pertussis, urine tingling (urinary tract infection). "

Usage: take orally or stew with meat. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[should not] pregnant women and those with weak spleen and stomach should not take it.

(1) in the treatment of swelling of camphor, the prescription was selected to treat the swelling of camphor.

② Treatment hundred son phlegm (distention): zhangliutou white one or two to two. Fried with pig liver.

③ Treatment of white turbidity and closed mouth dysentery: zhangliutou white one or two to two. Fried with pork twice. (the selected prescription is recorded in the collection of herbs in the south of the five ridges.)

Chinese PinYin : Zhang Liu Tou