Rubus crassifolia

Rubus crassifolia

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonym] big leaf snake bubble cleaning, big rag thorn, tiger bubble, tiger palm cleaning, September bubble (Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), August bubble, oxtail bubble, big cleaning altar (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root and leaf of Rubus crassifolia.

[plant morphology] Rubus crassifolia

Climbing shrub; the whole plant is densely covered with rust colored villi, and the branches, petioles and peduncles have small barbs. Single leaf alternate, heart-shaped ovate or heart-shaped round, very unequal in size, 5-15 cm in diameter, irregularly 3-7-lobed, lobes usually obtuse, with irregular teeth, base auricle heart-shaped, upper green, coarsely hairy and bullous, small convex point or flat, lower light yellow with green, densely covered with gray or rust colored woolly hair and villous, veins rust colored, basal veins 5-7; petiole It is 3-4 cm long, with 2 large stipules, pinnately cleft or irregularly lacerated. Flowers white, terminal and axillary panicles or racemes, a few axillary head shaped bouquets, with yellowish villi; bracts large, like stipules. The aggregate fruit is subglobose, about 1.5 cm in diameter, fleshy and bright red when ripe. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from November to December.

It grows on hillside, hill, roadside and wild bush. Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] The Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army: "sweet, light, flat. "

Functions and indications: in the manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine published by Guangzhou army, "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing heat and stopping bleeding. Treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, hepatosplenomegaly, marching hemoglobinuria, mastitis, traumatic bleeding, stomatitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: Sprinkle with grinding powder or gargle with boiling water.

[clinical application] treatment of halophilic food poisoning

71 cases of this disease caused by eating salty yellow mud snail were observed. The patients generally had headache, aversion to cold, fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and water loss; some cases had bloody stools, and 2 cases had mild shock. After decocting 1.5 liang of Rubus Rubus and 0.5 liang of ginger, all patients were cured. Among them, 66 cases were cured with one dose and 6 cases were cured with two doses.