Henbit

Henbit

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] Sambucus williamsii, liantai xiakuo, Maoye xiakuo, denglongcao (Diannan materia medica), zhenzhulian (textual research on plant names and facts), Buddha seat (botanical Dictionary), Fengzhan, lianqiancao, datongqianqi (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), candle cutting grass (traditional Chinese Medicine Manual of Jiangsu medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Labiatae plant baogaicao.

[plant morphology] baogaicao

Annual erect herbs. The stem is weak, square, often purplish, covered with sparse hairs, 10-60 cm high. The leaves are kidney shaped or round, the base is heart-shaped or round, the edge has round teeth and small cracks, both sides are hairy; the root leaves have a stalk, the stem leaves have no stalk, and the base embraces the stem. The Corolla is purplish red, 9-17 mm long, tomentose on the outside, thin corolla tube, no hairy ring on the base, throat dilated, erect, oblong, galeate, lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe fan-shaped, apex deeply concave, lateral lobes wide triangular; stamens 4, 2 Strong, anthers scarlet; style 2-lobed, needlelike. Nutlets oblong, 3-ribbed, apex truncate, brownish black, with white scalelike protuberances. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is June.

Born on the roadside. Distributed in Northeast, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Tibet and other places.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain four glucosides: sesamin, desacetylsesamin, sesamin and deshydroxysesamin. The content of Sesamin in fresh leaves was about 0.02%.

Hard work, warm.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "bitter taste, warm nature. "

② "The picture of Materia Medica in the south of Yunnan": Wen, Xin. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind, dredge collaterals, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is used to treat the pain of muscles and bones, numbness of limbs, contusion injury and rash.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "treat the pain of phlegm fire in muscles and bones, numb hands and feet. Dispel the wind of wandering all over the body and disperse the phlegm nuclei of hands and feet. Treatment of traumatic injuries, bone. Stop brain leak and nasal cavity. Phlegm fire, swelling and pain. "

② Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "nourishing tendons, promoting blood circulation, stopping pain all over the body. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or powder. External use: tamping.

[selection] ① treatment of high falling injury, fracture and tendon injury: two liang of Sambucus japonicus, one or two of zigegen (file), one or two of Dendrobium (root removed file), one or two of Morinda officinalis, one or two of clove, one or two of Dipsacus, one or two of ferulae (face wrapped, simmer face cooked degree). Apply the medicine and mash it into powder. Regardless of time, to warm wine under two money. (Jiegu Cao San, Shenghui Fang)

② Treatment of traumatic injury, foot injury, swelling can not walk on the ground: jiegucao, qimagen, Jiji. Use egg white and honey to mash and apply to the affected area. Change it once a night. If it hurts for a long time, add onion and ginger.

③ Treatment of phlegm fire, hand and foot swelling pain: Sambucus five money, chicken foot thorn root two money, soil Coptis two money. Mash it up and order Shaojiu Bao three times. Add Xanthium sibiricum, Angelica dahurica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, remove Rhizoma Coptidis and chicken feet, add water and wine to decoct for three times.

④ Treatment of women's legs nuclear, shape, such as peach and plum, red and swollen knot hard: jiegucao three money. Fried in water and served with water and wine. Again, Jiawei Lingxian, Fangfeng, huzhangcao, three clothes. (2) herbal medicine of South Yunnan

⑤ Treatment of lymph node tuberculosis: one or two baogaicao seedlings, two eggs, with fried food. Two to three taels of baogaicao and two to three eggs. Cook together, remove the shell after the egg is cooked, continue to cook for half an hour, eat the egg and drink the soup. There are two kinds of baogaicao. Mash the juice and take it after boiling. Once every other day, three to four times in a row. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

⑥ Treatment mouth crooked, hemiplegia: jiegucao, Fangfeng, Gouteng, Danxing. Fry in water, order water wine and Shaojiu. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

Chinese PinYin : Bao Gai Cao