Cimicifuga latifolia

Cimicifuga latifolia

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] banma, Masha vegetable, baihuagen, midiancai, tuscima (Guizhou folk medicine), Maoer Fanzheng, zhandaozheng (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Compositae.

[plant morphology] white drum nail

Perennial herbs, 35-80 cm high. Underground with short rhizome, surrounded by tufts of fibrous roots, slender soft, slender branched roots, yellowish white. Stems erect, cylindrical, usually simple, less divergent, pubescent throughout. Leaves opposite, sessile, or nearly sessile; leaf blade linear lanceolate, 6-12 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, apex pointed, base acutely cuneate, margin irregularly sparsely serrate, sometimes 3-lobed, near base with obvious 3 veins, dark green above, yellowish green below, purulent, densely covered with white setae on both sides. The inflorescence is arranged in compact cyme shape and terminal; the involucre is bell shaped and imbricate, with about 10 bracts of different sizes, oblong, apex pointed, margin membranous and dry; the receptacle is bare, with 5-6 tubular flowers on it, bisexual, purplish, 5-lobed at the top; the stamen is 5, the anthers are more or less connate, around the style, with appendages at the upper end and blunt base; the stigma protrudes , 2-lobed, lobes cylindrical. Achene 5-ribbed, corolla uniseriate, spinose. The flowering period is from August to October.

Wild on wet hillside, grassland, or beside stream. It is distributed in North China, Northeast China, East China and Central South provinces.

The whole grass of this plant was once used as perianthus in the south of Jiangsu Province, and its commercial name is "perianthus acuminatus". See article "Perrin".

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry in the sun.

[chemical composition] contains coumarin.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat cold, malaria and intestinal parasitic diseases.

Guizhou folk medicine: "exterior cold and antipyretic.". Treat malaria and colds. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-4 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① cold treatment: four bucks of Cimicifuga, three bucks of Pueraria and three bucks of Bupleurum. Take it in boiling water. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of malaria: four to five dollars for fresh cigua. Fry it into a thick sauce. Take it two hours before the onset of malaria. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of intestinal parasitic diseases: five dollars for Cimicifuga. Take it in boiling water. (Guizhou herbal medicine)