Scissorgrass

Scissorgrass

(yinpianxinshen)

[synonyms] tahua (botanical Dictionary), yuruyi (Suzhou native medicinal materials), shanmint, native mint (Quanzhou green herbal medicine), Wild Mint (Quanzhou herbal medicine), yexiancao, xiaoyexiancao (Jiangxi folk herbal prescription), jiejiehua, wild herb (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Labiatae.

[plant morphology] 1

Herbs perennial, 7-25 cm high. Stem square, smooth or puberulent. Leaves opposite; leaf blade rhombic to ovate, 0.8-2 cm long, 6-15 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margin serrate, both sides smooth, stipitate. More than 10 flowers are arranged in cymes, opposite to leaf axils or terminal to branches; calyx tubular, purple, glabrous outside, 5-toothed, pinnate on lower lip; corolla purplish red, 2-lipped, upper lip very short, lower lip 3-lobed, slightly long; fertile stamen 2, staminode 2. Nutlets obovate, pale yellow, smooth. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from July to August.

Born on the side of the road, at the foot of the mountain, in wasteland. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangsu, etc.

② Thin wind wheel

Annual herb, 10-30 cm high. Its shape is similar to that of the above species, but its stem is thin and soft, single, sparsely branched, without obvious four edges. Calyx outside with short hairs on veins. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from May to June.

It grows in wasteland, roadside and hillside. It is distributed in Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[collection] harvest from June to August and dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] dry whole grass, stems and branches soft and thin, diameter less than 1 mm; surface purple brown, with longitudinal edges; broken surface yellow brown. The leaves are crinkle and curly, yellowish brown or light green, crisp and easy to fall. In the upper part, only the yellow green calyx is left, the corolla has fallen off, and sometimes the yellow white nutlets are left. The taste is slightly bitter. It is better to be dry, yellowish brown to greenish brown and without soil.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

Bitter, pungent and cool.

① "Yinpianxinshen": bitter, flat. "

② Jiangxi folk herbal medicine prescription: "bitter, pungent, cool. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, clearing heat, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. It can cure cold, headache, bacillary dysentery, enteritis, mastitis, sore, traumatic injury, blood collapse, urticaria.

① "Yinpianxinshen": "xiaochuangzhong erysipelas, insect bites. "

② "Suzhou native medicine": hemostasis. Treatment of breast carbuncle, sores. "

③ "Quanzhou green herbal medicine": "dispel wind, stop bleeding, eliminate carbuncle, stop dysentery. "

④ Quanzhou materia medica: "clearing away heat and toxin, dispelling wind and relieving pain, removing carbuncle and stopping dysentery. It is used to treat women's HAEMORRHEA, mastitis, red and white dysentery. External application of carbuncle and swelling toxin. "

⑤ According to the manual of Chinese herbal medicine of Su Yi, "clearing away heat and toxin, relieving swelling and pain, dispelling wind and dissipating heat. Treatment of enteritis, diphtheria, sore throat, carbuncle, urticaria, allergic dermatitis. "

⑥ Jiangxi herbal medicine: "dispersing blood stasis and detoxifying. Treatment of traumatic injury, cold, headache, heatstroke, abdominal pain. "

⑦ "Hunan medicine annals" says: "promoting Qi, dispersing blood and eliminating accumulation. "

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

[prescription selection] ① for cold and headache: three coins of guangfenglun, two pieces of ginger and two pieces of scallion. Take it in water, one dose a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

② Cure heatstroke abdominal pain: light wind wheel five money, green wood fragrant root two money. Take it in water, one dose a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of dysentery: fresh and thin fengluncai one or two, fried orally, red dysentery with white sugar, white dysentery with brown sugar.

④ Cure mastitis: fresh thin wind round dish one or two, brown sugar one or two, drink add boiled water stew service. Another with fresh leaves, add brown sugar mash topical.

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury, accumulation of blood stasis pain: a fresh thin fengluncai Jiaozhi Paojiu clothing. (3) "Quanzhou green herbal medicine" is given below the prescription; two fresh and thin Fenggu vegetables are mashed with sweet wine fermented grains and applied to the injured area. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of women's blood collapse (blood fever): thin wind round vegetables one or two, raw rehmannia, Platycladus orientalis leaves each five money, into a little rock sugar. Decoction, twice a day. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑦ Treatment of children's food accumulation: thin wind wheel, Herba two money each, one and a half money every other mountain, betel nut, licorice one money each. Take it in water, three times a day. (Hunan medical records)

⑧ Treatment of urticaria, allergic dermatitis: appropriate amount of light wind luncai, decoction wash. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

[clinical application] treatment of bacillary dysentery and enteritis

Take 18 Jin of thin wind wheel and 7 Jin of Agrimonia pilosa, smash them, sift them through 120 meshes to get 8 Jin of fine powder, mix the remaining coarse powder with 22 Jin of thin wind wheel, fry them in water twice, combine them twice, concentrate the filtrate to a certain extent, mix 8 Jin of fine powder, dry the powder, sift them through 120 meshes and put them into No. 0 capsule, each capsule is equivalent to 2G of thin wind wheel crude drug and 0.35g of Agrimonia pilosa. Take 4-5 capsules orally each time, 4 times a day. 214 cases of acute and chronic bacillary dysentery and enteritis were treated. The curative effect standards were as follows: 1. Recovery: clinical symptoms disappeared, microscopic examination was negative, and there was no recurrence within the first month; 2. Marked effect: clinical symptoms improved significantly, but the course of disease was long, and there was recurrence after follow-up observation; 3. Good turn: symptoms relieved, stool times reduced, and stool microscopic examination improved; 4. No effect: no obvious change after taking medicine, and other drugs were used. Results among 54 cases of acute bacillary dysentery, 51 cases were cured and 3 cases were markedly effective; among 14 cases of chronic bacillary dysentery, 6 cases were cured, 2 cases were markedly effective, 3 cases were improved and 3 cases were ineffective; among 128 cases of acute enteritis, 121 cases were cured, 6 cases were markedly effective and 1 case was improved; among 18 cases of chronic enteritis, 12 cases were cured, 3 cases were markedly effective, 1 case was improved and 2 cases were ineffective. The average cure time was 6-7 days. Preliminary observation shows that the curative effect seems to be higher than that of berberine, LITELING and other commonly used drugs, especially for acute bacillary dysentery and enteritis. If the decoction is used, it seems to control the symptoms faster than the capsule. In the course of treatment, there were no other adverse reactions except constipation in a few cases with excessive dosage.

Chinese PinYin : Jian Dao Cao