Elderberry 2

Elderberry 2

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonyms] bailonggu, Lengkeng orchid, Lengkeng green, houhoujiezhu, qianyangcao, xueheshan, wuguma and chischeshi (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the rhizome or the whole plant of the Urticaceae.

[plant morphology] Sedum lushanense

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. Stem oblique, glabrous, nodes sometimes expanded. Leaves alternate, 2-row, sessile; leaves oblong or obovate oblong, 5-12 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, apex acute, caudate, base obliquely semicircular, asymmetric, margin coarsely serrate above middle, densely covered with adnexal hairs above, glabrous below. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers clustered cephalic, inflorescence petiolate; female flowers 8-12 cluster cephalic, inflorescence sessile, involucre lanceolate linear; male flowers sepals 4-5, stamens the same number, opposite sepals; female flowers sepals 3-5, tiny and persistent, pistil 1, stigma brush. Achenes small, ovate. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows under trees, ditches and weeds in the wet foothills. It is distributed in East China and central China.

[collection] collect the whole grass or rhizome from spring to autumn, and use them fresh.

[herb] the fresh rhizome is irregular cylindrical, multi branched, 3-10 cm long. The surface is purplish red with nodules and many fibrous root marks. The section is dark purplish red with 6-7 vascular bundles. It is green grass, bitter and poisonous. Produced in Zhejiang.

[nature and taste] 1. Records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang Province: "warm in nature, hard in taste. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "warm in nature, light in taste. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving cough. It is used to treat falls, sprains, mumps, amenorrhea and cough.

① "Rhizome, for fracture; stem and leaf, for cough. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, detumescence and detoxification, relieving cough. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping. Oral: fried soup, fresh 1-2 Liang.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of fracture: fresh Sambucus japonicus root, add fresh sophora root, mash and wrap the wound with yellow rice wine, clamp with Chinese fir cork, fix, change once a day. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

② Cough treatment: fresh elderberry stems and leaves one or two, stewed pork service. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

③ Treatment of contusion and sprain: fresh whole herb of Sambucus williamsii with proper amount of salt, mash the wound.

④ Treatment of mumps: jiegucao fresh whole grass mashed external application of the affected area.

⑤ Treatment of amenorrhea: jiegucao fresh whole grass one to two, fried in water, red wine, brown sugar service.

⑥ Treatment of tuberculosis fever, cough: jiegucao fresh whole grass one to two, decoction. (3) Zhejiang folk herbal medicine is listed below.)

Chinese PinYin : Jie Gu Cao