Insect tooth medicine

Insect tooth medicine

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonyms] trigeminal gold, santuoai, shanghantou, dajiangen (Guangxi Medicinal plant directory), three sisters (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), oxtail grass, three leaf broom, red deer tail (Chinese higher plant Atlas).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Rabdosia trilobata.

[plant morphology] rabdosia trifoliata, also known as rabdosia tenuifolia.

Herbs perennial, ca. 60 cm tall. Stem erect, with four obtuse edges, densely covered with white coarse hairs. The leaves are oblong, 4-9 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrate, green on the top, short white hairs scattered, and densely white pilose on the bottom. Cyme, with 10 florets, integrated into panicle, terminal and opposite axils; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, densely covered with white tomentose; corolla purple, with white hairs outside, base of corolla tube contracted, upper part of contraction has a shallow sac, upper lip 4-lobed, lobes reflexed, lower lip boat shaped; stamens 4,2-strong, anthers T-shaped; style 2-lobed.

Born in the wild grass slope.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] pungent, slightly bitter, warm.

① "Guizhou folk medicine": "warm in nature, pungent in taste, with little poison. "

② "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "taste slightly bitter, warm. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and cold, resolving phlegm and regulating dampness. Treatment of cold, cough, jaundice, rheumatism swelling, toothache, knife wound bleeding.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "pain relief and hemostasis. Treat toothache, knife wound. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "resolving phlegm, relieving cough, eliminating edema. Treatment of typhoid fever, jaundice, cough, hexifeng, infantile malnutrition, rheumatism. "

③ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "dispersing wind cold, detoxification, detumescence, pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping or frying.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of toothache: a small amount of insect tooth medicine, add salt to pound, and put it on the affected area; or use insect tooth medicine root to pound, and put it on the affected area. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of influenza: five to one or two pieces of fragrant tea and vegetables with thin leaves, fried in water. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of snakebite, swelling and pain: 1 to 2 pairs of fragrant tea herbs with thin leaves, fried with water and washed with wine; appropriate amount of fresh grass for external use, fried with water and washed the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of knife wound: insect tooth medicine leaf appropriate amount, mash the wound. (Guizhou herbal medicine)