Da Jie Gu Dan

Da Jie Gu Dan

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Shuidonggua and shuiwujia (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), Shuidonggua and jiegucaoshu (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), qingminghua (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root, flower and leaf of dogwood.

[plant morphology] Limonium dentatum

Small trees, 3-5M high. The branches are cylindrical, grayish brown, with lenticels, crispy, hollow heart, and swollen nodes; the buds are large and obvious, often reddish, single leaves alternate, the leaves are palmately 7-lobed, 10-15 cm long and 10-18 cm wide, the base is heart-shaped, the lobes are broad triangular, the edge is serrate, the veins are palmately branched, and the upper surface is slightly short hairy; the petiole is 7-15 cm long, and the base is sheath like. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in dense panicles with pale yellow flowers; male calyx 5-lobed; petals 5-flowered, arranged in inward tweezers; female flowers without petals. Drupe; 3-4 seeds, flowering in early summer.

Cultivated in the village side road, or forest edge.

[collection] leaves in autumn, flowers in summer and roots in winter.

Chinese herbal medicine: bitter in Yunnan. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relaxing tendons and connecting bones. Treatment of fracture, traumatic injury, dry blood injury, tonsillitis, asthma.

① According to Guizhou folk medicine collection, "root: Smash external application, eliminate injury and swelling, connect bone; soak wine for internal use, can relax tendons and activate blood circulation. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "root bark, flower and leaf: regulating blood, connecting bone, tonifying deficiency, relieving fever and relieving asthma. Treatment of fracture, women's dry blood tuberculosis, tonsillitis, asthma, traumatic injury. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: root and flower decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or grinding, blowing throat.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injuries: five coins for Shuidonggua, five coins for Difengzi, one or two coins for suanzaocao, five coins for goose intestine, five coins for hongniuxi and five coins for iron chopsticks. Take one jin of wine, one or two times a day.

② Treatment of bruise and blood stasis: Shuidonggua, Achyranthes bidentata, papaya, Songjie. Take it orally.

③ Jiegu: a fresh water Donggua root bark, rock Holly branch tip. Mash and apply to the affected area, once a day. Two water Donggua one or two, bayanjiang one or two, wild grape root one or two. The wounds were smashed and applied. (Guiyang folk herbs was selected)