Bristle grass

Bristle grass

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[synonyms] shizhongzhu, PigHair lacquer (Chinese medicinal plant records), wire grass (Guangzhou flora), PigHair lacquer, jianglongcao (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), xiaozhumaoqi, yanduckweed, PigHair feijincao (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), clematis, ichthyophyllum, wujiaomang (Quanzhou materia medica).

[source] it is the whole plant of Adiantum and Adiantum albopictus.

[plant morphology] 1

Perennial herbs, up to 20-50 cm in height. Dense fibrous roots, light brown. Rhizome transverse, yellowish brown, densely covered with light brown scales. The leaves are nearly the same length as the leaves; the petioles are thin and weak with scales at the base, purple black and glossy; the leaves are 1-3 pinnate compound leaves, and the lower part is 3 pinnate compound leaves. In the middle part, there are 2 cycles, and in the upper part, there are 1 cycle: 8-13 pairs of pinnae, alternate, stipitate, the largest pair near the base, 2 cycles of feathery compound leaves have petioles, the width of the last cycle is about 3-3.5 mm, most of them are fan-shaped, the base is wedge-shaped, with petioles, the upper edge often has irregular deep cracks, lobes are blunt, sterile lobes also have small teeth, the leaves are thin grass, light green, smooth on both sides, and obvious veins . The cysts are usually oblong, brown, white, membranous, with 3-7 pinnae. The sporangia are round to oblong, slightly curved, sessile, and the spores are small and yellowish.

They like to grow on wet rocks by streams or slopes with pine forests. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi, etc.

② Adiantum leucocephalum

Perennial herbs, 20-30 cm high. Rhizome slender, transverse, apex covered with ovate lanceolate scales, dark brown, below with short fibrous roots, light brown. The petiole is round and thin, glossy, purplish brown, 10-20 cm long, glabrous except the base; the leaf blade is triangular oval, 10-15 cm long and 7-10 cm wide. 3-pinnate compound leaves; 3-5 pairs of pinnae under the apex, the largest basal pinnae, triangular lanceolate, 7 cm long and 3-4 cm wide; pinnules oblong, stipitate, obtuse; 1-4 pairs of last pinnules, fan-shaped, 4-7 mm long and wide, round head, margin awned serrate, stipitate; leaves thick leathery, glabrous above, green, powdery below; veins fan-shaped. The sporangia are brown, round kidney shaped and 2-3 mm long.

Born on the wet stone by the mountain stream. Distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei and other places.

In addition, the whole plant of Adiantum semilunatum and Adiantum yunnanense is also used as bristle grass. The former is distributed in South China and southwest China, while the latter is distributed in Yunnan, as shown in the article "bristle grass".

It contains flavonoids, total sugars and total tannins. The flavonoids in leaves are: astragaloside, isoquercetin, pyroside, kaempferol-3-glucuronide, rutin and quercetin-3-glucuronide. In addition, it is said that the product contains adiantone, 3 α, 4 α - epoxidized Mianma terpane and a small amount of 21-hydroxy-30-norpoane-22-one.

[pharmacological action] Adiantum has expectorant effect, so it is used to treat chronic bronchitis: no antibacterial effect.

Bitter and cool.

① "Guiyang folk herbs": "salty, cold, non-toxic. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

③ Quanzhou materia medica: "bitter, flat, slightly toxic. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "into the liver and kidney. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, dispelling wind, diuresis and detumescence. It can treat cough, hematemesis, rheumatism, arthralgia, drenching, leucorrhea, dysentery, breast swelling, wind itching and eczema.

① "Tianbao Materia Medica": "Li Shui Tong Lin". Treatment of leucorrhea, dizziness, breast swelling, red and white dysentery. Vinegar fried treatment of hemorrhoids, anal prolapse. "

② Guizhou folk medicine collection: "antitussive, antipyretic, diuretic. It can treat drenching and turbidity. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can cure lung heat, cough, toothache and hematemesis. "

④ "Quanzhou Materia Medica" says: "to differentiate and expel wind, to activate blood circulation and detoxify, to remove blood stasis and generate new, to soften and firm, to eliminate accumulation, to relieve pain. Treat all joint wind pain, lumbar pain, injury. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or soaking in wine. External use: decocting, washing or dressing.

[selection] 1. Treatment of lung heat and hematemesis: Bristle grass, red thatch grass and sanpifeng. Take it in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatic joint soreness: fresh Clematis one or two, soaked in a jin of wine. One small glass (about two) at a time. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Cure child urine knot: Bristle grass two money, grain essence grass three money. Take it in water. (Guiyang folk herbs)

④ Treat urine drench blood drench: Bristle grass, sea gold sand, wire button each five money, water decoct service. (Guiyang folk herbs)

⑤ Treatment of urinary tract infection and calculi: bristles three to five money, decoction. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

⑥ Treatment of skin itching and eczema: fresh Clematis two liang, decoction wash. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑦ Treatment of mastitis, milk barrier: bristles three to five money. Fried in water, sweet wine as a guide. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

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