Ulmus pumila

Ulmus pumila

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] geshanxiao (investigation report of medicinal plants in Kunming) and zidiyu (empirical identification method of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the root of Sanguisorba officinalis.

[plant morphology] Sanguisorba officinalis

Herbaceous perennial, 20-30 cm high, pubescent throughout. The fibrous roots are long, conical and purple. The leaves are basal or cauline, with long petioles, 3-5 palmately divided, 3-5 cm in diameter, and pinnately stipules. 1-2 flowers on the top of stem, red, about 1.5 cm in diameter. Capsule long beak shape, mature from the base of the upward roll and crack, the seeds pop up and hang on the style. It blooms in summer.

Most of them are on the sunny hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan.

[collection] at the end of autumn, they were dug, washed, removed fibrous roots, sliced and dried.

[medicinal material] the epidermis of dry root is dark brown, the endodermis is purple, and there are many wrinkles and fibrous root marks. Most of the herbs are cut into oblique slices, about 2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide and 2-5 mm thick; the section is yellowish brown, the wood and skin are often separated, and the color of this part is dark. It is easy to break and the section is silty. Odorless and bitter. Purple skin and yellow heart are the best.

It is produced in Yunnan.

[flavor] bitter and astringent, cool.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "the nature is slightly warm, the taste is bitter, slightly astringent and sour. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and astringent, slightly cold. "

[function indications] anti inflammation, hemostasis, astringent bowel. Treatment of enteritis, dysentery, abdominal pain, internal bleeding, epistaxis, hematochezia, menorrhagia, postpartum bleeding, traumatic injury.

① "Diannan materia medica:" stop cold face, back cold, abdominal pain, for a long time under the large intestine blood, seven days later red white dysentery. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "Xiaoshi Jianwei, Zhili Zhixue, Zhili Zhixue, Zhili, diarrhea, internal bleeding, menorrhagia, stomachache. "

③ "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "convergence hemostasis, blood circulation, pain, stomach and diarrhea. Treatment of enteritis, dysentery, chronic gastritis, diarrhea, dyspepsia, irregular menstruation, postpartum bleeding, epistaxis, falls, injuries. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocting soup, 3-5 yuan; soaking wine or entering pill powder.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat the pain of cold face, cold back, cold abdomen: red elm is the last, hot wine is the next. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② For the treatment of heat accumulation in intestines and stomach, hematochezia due to large intestine meridians or intestinal wind, red blood dysentery: one or two red elms, three bucks from Huaijiao (fried or spent), five buckles from aurantium aurantii, three buckles from Scutellaria baicalensis, two buckles from Schizonepeta tenuifolia, five buckles from quanqingui, two buckles from Coptis chinensis (fried with wine). A total of fine powder, Hewan Tongzi big. Two yuan per serving, rice soup. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

③ Treatment of tracheitis: Purple Sanguisorba five money, tangerine peel three money. Add brown sugar and fry in water. (common folk herbs in Kunming)