Breaking the bowl of flowers

Chinese Name: broken bowl flower

[type] whole grass

[synonym] Gossypium hirsutum (Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine) and Pulsatilla (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] broken bowl flower, also known as wild cotton, mountain cotton.

Perennial herbs, 30-100 cm high. The roots are strong. Stem white pilose, branched. The leaves are 3-compound and the basal leaves have long stalks; the middle leaflet is larger, ovate to heart-shaped, 4-11 cm long and 3-10 cm wide, obliquely ovate on both sides; the leaflets are not divided or 3 or 5-lobed. Margin with unequal coarse serrate, dark green above, purplish red to pale green below, both sides sparsely hairy. The flower stems are 20-80 cm high, sparsely pubescent; cymes are simple or 2-3-branched; involucral bracts are 2-3, opposite or whorled, similar to stem leaves but smaller; calyx is 5-6, white or pink, obovate to form ellipse, densely pubescent outside; stamens are numerous; carpels are numerous. Aggregate fruit globose; achene subovate, ca. 3. 5 mm, densely white woolly. The flowering period is from July to October.

It grows on the hillside, ditch side and roadside of low mountain or hilly area. It is distributed in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

[collection] collect in spring or autumn, wash, slice and dry.

[medicinal material] the dry roots are long, round, curved and of different lengths. The appearance is dark brown, rough, with twisted longitudinal lines, protruding small roots and root marks. The head of the root is thick with dry petioles and dense gray hairs. It is brittle, fibrous, yellowish brown with brown rays. It tastes bitter.

Produced in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. This product is used as Pulsatilla in Gansu and other areas.

[chemical constituents] the root contains anemone and triterpenoid saponins.

Bitter, pungent, cool and poisonous.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cool, with little poison. "

② Common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "bitter, pungent, warm, with little poison. "

[Guijing] Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "entering the lung and spleen meridians. "

Functions and indications: killing insects, resolving accumulation, detumescence and dispersing blood stasis. It is used to treat stubborn tinea, alopecia, malaria, infantile malnutrition, dysentery, carbuncle, furuncle, sore swelling, rash, traumatic injury.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, removing pus and generating muscle, removing swelling and stasis, eliminating food and resolving accumulation, intercepting malaria and killing insects. For stubborn tinea, alopecia, furuncle, carbuncle, nameless swelling, malaria, dysentery, infantile malnutrition, dyspepsia, traumatic injury. "

② "Xiaozhong Sandu" is a Chinese herbal medicine commonly used in Sichuan. It is used to treat traumatic injuries, redness and swelling, sores, dysentery and diarrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-2 yuan; or grind powder. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[taboo] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "forbidden for pregnant women. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat alopecia: one or two wild cotton, four pairs of ground powder and green walnut skin, mashed and applied externally.

② Cure sores, furuncles, carbuncle, nameless swelling poison: appropriate amount of wild cotton, smash external application.

③ Treatment of traumatic injury: one or two wild cotton. Soak children's stool for 24 hours, dry powder, take yellow rice wine, 5 to 1 yuan each time, twice a day.

④ Treatment of malaria: wild cotton three money, fried in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)