Achyranthes bidentata

white

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] xiaojiuzhanniu (Diannan materia medica), jiugu Achyranthes bidentata and Changshen root (Yunnan herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Dianthus Caryophyllaceae. The plant morphology is detailed in the "small sheet grass" section.

[collection] collect in late summer and early autumn, remove stems and leaves, wash and dry.

[medicinal material] the dry root is slender, cylindrical, 12-45 cm long, 3-6 mm in diameter, grayish yellow. The surface is longitudinal wrinkled, slightly twisted, sometimes divergent, with transverse lenticels. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with waxy section, gray white skin and yellow xylem. The skin color is grayish yellow, delicate, soft and sweet.

Produced in Yunnan.

[chemical composition] the root contains many kinds of oligosaccharides (three to eight monosaccharides), all of which are galactosides of sucrose, including shearulose, isoshearulose and raffinose; in addition, it also contains sucrose. The seeds contain a small amount of derivative sugars of shearulose and isoshearulose.

[flavor] bitter, light and cool.

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

② "Kunming folk commonly used herbs": "cool nature, light taste slightly bitter. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, diuresis and detumescence. It is used to treat amenorrhea, amenorrhea, traumatic injury, rheumatoid arthritis, gonorrhea, edema, scrofula, carbuncle, swelling and poison.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "tonifying the liver, breaking blood stasis, cooling blood and heat. It is used to treat amenorrhea, wet abdominal pain, productive tuberculosis, menstrual dysmenorrhea, vomiting, hematemesis, red collapse, leucorrhea, urgency and dripping of urine, cold and dampness, pain in muscles and bones, strengthening tendons and relaxing tendons, attacking sores, carbuncle, heat toxin, redness and swelling, mumps, milk moth, red and white stool in men, and red and white stool in women. "Relax the tendons and collaterals, and break the blood. Scattered tuberculosis, attack carbuncle swelling poison red hard, take the purulent head, no purulent LiXiao. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "diuretic detumescence, induced labor. Treatment of hernia, edema, tuberculosis, dystocia, stillbirth. "

③ "Clearing away heat and detoxification" is a common folk herbal medicine in Kunming. Remove the sore poison. "

④ "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "dehumidification and diuresis, Shujin Huoxue. Treatment of traumatic injury, fracture, chronic low back and leg pain, rheumatic arthritis, nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; soak in wine or stew chicken.

[taboo] herbal medicine of Southern Yunnan: "pregnant women should not take it. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic muscle and bone pain: five bucks for children, < U > < / u > three bucks, two bucks, Xiao Nan: two bucks. Three liang of wine. Three yuan for each, twice a day. (common folk herbs in Kunming)

② Treatment of liver deficiency heat, or tendon fever, cold in the afternoon, burning at night, weak limbs, tasteless diet, sweating more than: white Achyranthes bidentata two money, two money. Fried in water, water and wine. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

③ Treatment of women liver and kidney deficiency, Ren Du deficiency injury, can not be pregnant, and leucorrhea dripping: white Achyranthes three money, a small cock (to intestinal). Put the medicine into the chicken, or salt, simmer, hollow, once a month after the line, or single fried, a little water and wine can also be. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

④ Treatment of boils, boils and sores: small jiugu cattle, mixed with medicine, soaked in wine or fried in water. (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Kunming) < fontcolor = # 000000 > < / font >