Elderberry peach

Elderberry peach

(collection of compendium)

[synonym] Jiegu xiantaocao (life saving bitter sea), Bagua Xiantao (collection of medical prescriptions), pantaocao, Duoming Dan, Huoxue Dan (compendium of Medicine), yingtaocao (seeking the source of Materia Medica), Yigong grass, local crow grass (Lingnan herbs collection record), mosquito mother grass, xiaotou grass (Jiangsu botanical records), Wufeng automatic grass (Guiyang folk herbs), Huoxue Jiegudan (materia medica recommendation) 》）, Sambucus williamsii.

[source] it is the whole plant with roots (including galls) of Scrophulariaceae plant fairyland.

[plant morphology] fairyland grass

Herbs annual or biennial, glabrous or glandular, 12-18 cm high. Stem erect, sometimes creeping at base, much branched; tufted. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, lower leaves petiolate, upper leaves sessile, entire or slightly serrate. Flowers solitary in bract axils; bracts linear oblanceolate; petiole about 1 mm long, much shorter than sepals and sepals; calyx 4-lobed, lobes narrowly lanceolate, apex obtuse; corolla white, slightly reddish, corolla tube short, 4-lobed, radially arranged; stamen 4, pistil 1, ovary superior, petals short and thick. The capsule is oblate, ovoid, slightly concave at the apex, glabrous, and often parasitized by small insects in the mature fruit. Seeds oblong, flat, glabrous. The flowering and fruiting period is from April to May.

It is found by the river, wetland and rice field. It is distributed in East China and Guizhou.

[collection] during spring and summer, the whole grass should be dried or steamed before the endoparasites escape from the fruits, so as to make the endoparasites die and keep them dry.

[medicinal material] the dry whole grass with roots, leaves fall off. The branches are 10-12 cm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, yellow or reddish brown on the surface, hollow and soft. The remaining leaves are dark yellow, incomplete, crispy and easy to fall off. The flowers are growing in the axils of the upper part of the branch, and the corolla has withered. Capsule withered yellow, most of the remaining, sometimes containing many flat yellow seeds. Tasteless and odorless.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places.

[nature and taste] Bencao Zaixin: "it is pungent, cool and non-toxic. "

Re entering the lung meridian. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding, clearing lung heat, harmonizing liver and stomach. Treatment of traumatic injury, cough, blood in sputum, hematemesis, epistaxis, sore throat, hepatogastralgia, colic, dysmenorrhea.

① "Gangmu Shiyi": "xiaoyongzhong Dieda. "

② "Bencao Zaixin": "it can reduce lung qi, clear lung heat, stop coughing and hematemesis. "

③ "Promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis" is one of the main contents of the book of Materia Medica. The stems, leaves and roots can be dried in the sun, and then mixed with wine or cold water to make the muscles and bones join together. "

④ Lingnan medicine collection record: "harmonizing the stomach, regulating the liver, relieving Qi and pain. Treatment of internal injury, cough, phlegm with blood, carbuncle, falls. External use decocting and washing can dispel rheumatism. "

⑤ "Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi": "the whole herb is used to treat wind heat, swelling and pain of throat. The fruit with parasite is used to treat injury and hematemesis. "

⑥ Guiyang folk herbs: "tonifying blood and regulating menstruation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; grind or mash juice. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of cough and hematemesis after falling, crushing and injury, and pulmonary tuberculosis: after being dried in the hot sun, soak it in children's feces for one day, dry it in the sun, then soak it in the sun, and grind it into fine powder. For every one to five cents, serve with hot liqueur. Cough hematemesis, warm water delivery service, once a day. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

2. The Wutong attack: five dollars for a piece of wood, five yuan for the golden anise, and three dollars for the phoenix tree. Fried wine clothes. (the sea of life-saving bitterness) two immortals, four taels of peach grass, boiled wine clothes, slag bag wound, or powder two money, wine swallow. (Guiyang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of hematemesis: fresh elderberry peach grass, mashed juice, mixed with human milk. (hundred grass mirror)

④ Treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematemesis, epistaxis: jieguxiantao two money to four money, pig lean meat two. Cook in water. Eat meat and soup. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of liver qi, stomach qi and small intestine hernia: xiantaocao (with insects), kumquat seed, Fuju seed and Piper chengqie are divided into powder, granulated sugar pill and mung bean. One yuan per night. (collection of compendium)

⑥ Treatment of irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea: xiantaocao three to five money, mixed with sweet wine service. (Guiyang folk herbs)

⑦ Cure wine style beriberi: xiantaocao six Liang, baimaogen four Liang. Wash in boiling water. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

⑧ Treatment of sublingual nuclear swelling: Xiantao grass powder, 2 yuan per serving. (Guiyang folk herbs)

[clinical application] ① treatment of uterine bleeding

Take 2.5 liang of xiantaocao and fry it in water. 25 cases of uterine bleeding caused by Endometritis and myositis were cured.

② It is used for internal injury, hematemesis and tuberculosis hemoptysis

Each time with xiantaocao 1 ~ 3 money, research powder or fried, 2 ~ 3 times a day. More than 10 cases of hemoptysis due to internal injury were treated, and 5 cases were cured quickly. It also had certain effect on hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis.

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