Pearl grass

Pearl grass

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonym] rikaiyeguan, zhuzhucao (preparation of raw herbal medicine), yinyangcao, feiyougan (Clinical Guide), zhenzhuping (compendium of Medical Sciences), crucian carp grass, Hu Yaomian (flora of Guangzhou), laoyazhu (Fujian folk herbal medicine), yehezhu (collection of folk herbal medicine), Yougan, xiaoligan (Luchuan materia medica), Qicao (Nanning herbal medicine) Wuzhi), yehecao (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine), shanzaojiao (Guizhou folk medicine), yehouzhu (Sichuan Chinese herbal medicine), yougancao (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), and ichthyophyllum (Xuzhou "selection of new medical treatment with single prescription").

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of Euphorbiaceae.

[plant morphology] Phyllanthus urinaria

Herbs annual, 10-40 cm high, glabrous or nearly glabrous. Stem erect, branches often red, with winged longitudinal ribs. The leaves are oblong, 5-15 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base rounded, gray green below; petiole short or subsessile; stipules small, pointed triangular. Flowers unisexual, monoecious, axillary, small, reddish brown; sessile or shortly petiolate; calyx 6; corolla absent; male flowers 2-3 aggregated, stamens 3, filament base connate, anther chamber longitudinally split; female flowers 2-row under leaves, ovary 3-locular. Capsule sessile, oblate, about 3 mm in diameter, reddish brown, with scaly protuberances on the surface. Seeds triangular ovate, light brown, striate. The flowering period is from July to August.

Born on hillside, roadside and field side. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the rhizome is light brown with pith, and the main root is undeveloped with many fibrous roots. The stem is about 2-3 mm thick, the base of the old stem is grayish brown; the stem branches are longitudinal wrinkled, grayish brown, grayish brown or brownish red; the quality is brittle and easy to break, and the section is hollow. The branches are longitudinally wrinkled and have not obvious membranous winged ridges. The leaves are thin and small, gray green, wrinkled and easy to fall off. Flowers small, axillary in the back of the leaves, more than in shrinkage. Some with oblate Brown fruit. The air is slightly fragrant and the leaves are slightly bitter.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains phenolic constituents and triterpenoids.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cool.

① "The nature is cool. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "bitter, cold. "

③ "Nanning medicine annals": sweet and bitter. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "entering the liver and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: calming the liver, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxification. It is used to treat enteritis, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection, infantile malnutrition, fire eye, eye, mouth sore, head sore, nameless swelling and poison.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "treat infantile malnutrition eye, malnutrition accumulation, cook meat or fry and wash. "It can be used to cure the heaps of sores on the head. It's hard to resist the pain and itching. It can also be used to decoct, wash, grind and apply oil. "

② "Clinical guide": "treatment of infantile malnutrition, thin and weak, eyes want to be blind. For the end of white soup, or cooking fish meat. "

③ "The treatment of miasma" in the textual research on the names and facts of plants. "

④ "Fujian folk herbal medicine": "liver, annealing, eyesight, snake bite treatment. "

⑤ Guizhou folk medicine: "Regulating Qi and reducing swelling. "

⑥ "Qinggan Mingmu, seeping dampness and promoting diuresis" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection, urinary calculi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 1-2 Liang); or mashed juice. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat red and white dysentery: one to two pairs of fresh herbs from Phyllanthus urinaria. Fried in water, red dysentery with white sugar, white dysentery with brown sugar. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of infectious hepatitis: fresh Phyllanthus 1 to 22. Decoction, one dose a day, for a week. (Xuzhou, selection of new medical therapies based on single prescription)

③ Treatment of infantile malnutrition, night blindness: ye Xiazhu five to seven money, chicken, pig liver appropriate. Stewed in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] 1

Take 2-3 liang of fresh whole grass, or 1-2 liang of dry product, wash, add 500 ml of water, fry to 200 ml, 1 dose every day, take separately in the morning and evening. In 36 cases, 23 cases were cured, 12 cases were markedly effective and 1 case was ineffective. Some take it twice and get better.

② Treatment of rabies bite

Take 4-6 plants of whole herb (children's discretion) and decoct them. In addition, use the whole grass and cold rice grains to tamp the injured area. Six patients bitten by rabies were treated with the above method, all of them were safe and sound.

Chinese PinYin : Zhen Zhu Cao