Corns

Corns

(save famine materia medica)

[synonyms] qibuqi (rescue materia medica), renzicao (seek the original materia medica), banzhuke, Gongmu Cao (textual research on plant names and facts), niuhuanghuang, fried Guji (Leguminosae), xiaoxupian (Nanjing folk herb), meizicao, honghuacao, dilanhua (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine), tuwenhua, manlujinji, xihuacao (Guizhou Folk herb) Chinese medicine records of Hunan Province, ant grass (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai), Alternanthera philoxeroides, Cyperus vulgaris, xiaoyanbian grass, peanut grass, bairuixu, xiaoguanmen, blind grass (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Zhejiang Province), xiaofeiyi, honggudan (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Fujian Province), leech Chinese herbal medicine manual by Su Yi.

[source] it is the whole plant of legume Cornus.

[plant morphology] Cornus

Annual or perennial herbs, 10-30 cm high, many branched. Branchlets with white hairs hanging down. 3 pinnate compound leaves, alternate; short petiole; leaflets slender, oblong or obovate oblong, 2-8 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, apex rounded, middle vein extending, spiny pointed, base cuneate; white mane along midvein and margin. Stipules larger, long ovate, sharp, light green at first, light brown at later. Flowers butterfly, 1-2, axillary; bracteoles 4, ovate lanceolate; calyx dark purple, campanulate, 2.5-3 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate; corolla light rose, 2-3 times longer than calyx, petal suborbicular, apex concave, claw, base auricle, wing petal oblong, base auricle, keel semiovate, short claw and ear, petal and wing petal nearly equal length, wing petal and keel There are dark red spots at the end of the petal; stamens are 2-body. Pods ovate round, slightly acute at the top, small beak, calyx persistent. Seed 1, black, with irregular brown spots. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows on the roadsides, fields, forests and waterside of sunny hillsides. Distributed in Northeast and Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places.

The morphology of the same genus is similar to that of Cornus, but the stem is stout and erect; the leaflets are obovate, densely hairy; the sepals are slightly longer. It is also used in some areas.

[collection] collected from July to August, dried or fresh.

[chemical constituents] the leaves of corngrass contain flavonoids and glucosides.

[pharmacological action] the aqueous extract of cornweed had no antibacterial effect on Shigella flexneri, song's, Shigella and Shu's and E. coli in vitro, but the alcohol extract had weak effect on Shigella flexneri. The results showed that the aqueous extract of Cornus longiflorus had certain antibacterial effect on Shigella flexneri, Shushi and Shigella in vitro (plate method).

[nature and taste] sweet, pungent and flat.

① Ben Cao Qiu yuan: "Gan Xin, Ping. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "cold in nature, pungent in taste, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, strengthening spleen and removing dampness. It can cure cold, fever, heat dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, malaria, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, heat drenching and turbidity.

① "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "treating Dieda, Puzhong and detoxifying. "

② "Removing fire and poison" in the textual research on the names and facts of plants. Heat stroke pound juice, (and) cold water drink. "

③ "Nanjing folk herbs": "diuretic. "

④ Fuzhou herbal medicine: "treating snake bite. "

⑤ "Experimental study of traditional Chinese medicine": "treat women's leucorrhea, damp heat jaundice, summer diarrhea, intestinal wind, hematochezia, red and white dysentery. "

⑥ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines:" for hematemesis, diarrhea and infantile malnutrition. "

⑦ Guizhou folk medicine: "stop bleeding. Treat abdominal pain. "

⑧ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "antipyretic, Sansha. It is used to treat lumbago, diarrhea, scraping and dysentery. "

⑨ "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs": "Lishi Jianpi, Jiere Zhili. "

⑩ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "it can cure cold, fever, cough, chest pain, urinary tract infection, enteritis and dysentery. "

(11) Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "promote diuresis and eliminate accumulation. Treatment of dyspepsia and diarrhea. "

(12) Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "convergence, solid off. Treatment of uterine prolapse, prolapse of anus. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or juice coating.

[prescription selection] ① to treat abdominal pain caused by sudden vomiting and diarrhea: the flower of tuwenhua is tender and sharp, chews it in the mouth, and swallows its juice. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of heatstroke: fresh corngrass three to four Liang. Smash the water clothes. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of dampness and heat jaundice, summer diarrhea, intestinal wind and blood in stool: seven to one or two bucks of male and female herbs. Take it in water. If you have intestinal wind for a long time, you should take it for a long time. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of red white long dysentery: fresh corngrass two liang, Fengwei fern five money. Fry in water and take it before meals. (Zhejian folk herbs)

⑤ For red and white dysentery: five bucks for Gongmu Cao and two bucks for Liuyue Shuang. Decoct in water, remove dregs, red dysentery with brown sugar, white dysentery with white sugar. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑥ Treatment of malaria: one to three taels of cornweed. Decoct in water and take it two or three times. One dose a day for three days. (selected materials for investigation of unilateral and verified prescriptions)

⑦ Treatment of infantile malnutrition: Cornus five money. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑧ Treatment of stomachache: Cornus one or two. Warm clothes in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑨ Cure urinate disadvantageous: fresh Cornus grass one to two. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑩ Cure heat drench: male and female grass seven money to one or two. Fried with rice wine. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

(11) treatment of women's leucorrhea: seven to one or two bucks of Herba, two or three soups of refined pork, and decoction of soup. (experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

(12) treatment of traumatic injury: external application of corngrass. (Hunan medical records)

[clinical application] treatment of infectious hepatitis

Take 6 liang of fresh herringbone grass (half for children) every day, wash it, add water and decoct it for 20-30 minutes, remove the dregs and take it three times for 10 days. According to the observation of 23 cases, it has a certain effect on jaundice regression and liver function recovery. No toxic reaction or side effect was found in the course of treatment.

Chinese PinYin : Ji Yan Cao