Red shank powder

Red shank powder

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

[synonym] tuzhili (a textual research on the names and facts of plants), huabutterfly, huamianqiao, qiaozilian, jiulongpan, huabiandan, Tusanqi, sanxuelian (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), xiaoyunyao, huamianyunyao, hongzaoyao (collection of folk herbs), Kucha toucao (Chinese medicine plant Atlas), hongzelan (Guizhou folk medicine), qiaohuanglian, guangchuancao, tianqiaolian, etc Jiaozhongcao, tiankuqi (Hunan medicinal records), shetoucao, nanshetou, butterfly grass (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), caojianxue, xuedanggui, huangzelan (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), huamianqiaomai, yayaoshanliao (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine formula).

[source] the whole plant of Polygonaceae, Polygonum pauciflorum or Polygonum sinopauciflorum.

[plant morphology] 1. Polygonum pauciflorum

Annual or perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. The rhizome is light yellow and the fibrous root is black brown. Stems slender, erect or oblique, slightly branched, purple, nodose and finely white hairy, or subglabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate or triangular ovate, 5-8 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base nearly truncate, often with 2 round lobes, glabrous or hairy on both sides, purple black stripes on the upper and middle parts, with fine cilia; petiole short, with auricle at the base; Stipule tubular, membranous, 1 cm long, ciliate. Inflorescence capitate, small, usually several at the top of branches; pedicel glandular hair; perianth pink, green along the back, 5-lobed, lobes ovate, apex obtuse; stamen 8, filament shorter than perianth; pistil 1, ovary superior, ovoid, style thin and weak, 3-lobed from the middle, stigma spherical. Achene ovoid, 3-ribbed, base rounded, 2-2.5 mm long, black with fine spots. The flowering period is from July to August.

Raw roadside, ditch, grass and other wet places or cultivation. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu and Western Henan.

② Polygonum chinense

The main characteristics are as follows: the leaves are villous on both sides; the marginal hairs of the stipules are very short or nearly glabrous; the total pedicels are villous without glandular hairs.

Grass and wet place beside the ditch. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi and other places.

The roots of the above plants (Butterfly root) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] bitter, slightly pungent, cold.

① "Hunan medicine annals" says: "bitter (a said Xin), cold, non-toxic. "

② New selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi: "sour and astringent in taste, flat in nature. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and detumescence. For dysentery, leucorrhea, blood heat, headache, metrorrhagia, amenorrhea, mastitis, sores and boils, traumatic injuries.

① "Qingsanjiao fever" in the collection of commonly used folk herbs. Treat dizziness. "

② "Analgesia" in Hunan medicine records. "

③ New selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi: "detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of snake bite, carbuncle, nameless swelling, mastitis. "

④ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "clearing heat and promoting blood circulation. It is used to treat headache, carbuncle, dysentery, leucorrhea, purulent heat, cough. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang). External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of dysentery: one or two Polygonum pauciflorum, decoction.

② Treatment of abdominal pain: lack of lumbar leaf Polygonum five money, a money of Aucklandia, decoction.

③ Treatment of red and white belt: lack of waist leaf Polygonum six money, Cunninghamia lanceolata pulp, sandalwood pulp each three money, decoction; white belt with sugar; red belt with brown sugar, rose flower, donkey hide gelatin.

④ Treatment of abscess: block waist leaf Polygonum pound application.

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury: lack of waist leaf Polygonum Decoction with wine. (1) the following prescriptions are published in the medical records of Hunan Province.)

⑥ Cure mastitis: Red shank powder whole grass or potato, wild buckwheat mash, add lees external application. (new selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)