Sweet potato vine

Sweet potato vine

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[synonym] Di pomegranate (Diannan materia medica), Guo Jianglong, Tu Gua (Cao Mu Bian Fang), ye digua (classified herbal medicine), di centipede (Tianbao materia medica), Niu Matong, Guo Shilong (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), di loquat, Guo Shanlong (Guizhou folk medicine), Pu di centipede (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), Niu tuobi, Jiu Cao, Dong loquat, Qing Fengyue, Feng Teng There are four kinds of herbs, namely, blocking tiger, Auricularia auricula (Hunan medicinal records), wild melon vine (Guizhou herbal medicine), shuangpo tiger, climbing milk, drilling earthworm (Guangxi herbal medicine), and everywhere gold, floor vine, sow sweet potato, creeping centipede, wannianba (Yunnan herbal medicine).

[source] it is the stem and leaf of sweet potato.

[plant morphology] sweet potato

Perennial deciduous lianas, all lotion. The aerial roots are whisker like, climbing on trees or stones. Stem cylindrical or slightly flat, brown, many branches, nodes slightly expanded. The leaves are ovate, ovate, oblong or oblong, about 3-6 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, margin undulate serrate, base round or heart-shaped, green above, setose below, veins hairy. The inflorescence is oblate, reddish brown, growing on creeping branches and half submerged in soil. The fruit is small. The flowering period is from April to May.

It grows in the low mountain area of sparse forest, hillside or field side, roadside. It is distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

The root (sweet potato root), flower (pomegranate flower) and fruit (sweet potato fruit) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest from September to October and dry in the sun.

Bitter, cold.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "nature is cool. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cold in nature, bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, astringent, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. Treatment of wind heat, cough, dysentery, edema, jaundice, rheumatic pain, hemorrhoids bleeding, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, infantile dyspepsia, traumatic injury, nameless swelling and poison.

① Classification of herbal medicine: "leaf, package sore poison. "

② "Tianbao Materia Medica": "treat red and white dysentery. "

③ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "it can remove rheumatism and numbness, treat muscle and bone pain, promote blood circulation, eliminate swelling and toxin, diuresis and antipyretic, and is used as a pain killer for traumatic injuries in the folk. "

④ "Closing dampness and removing hemorrhoids, relieving pain and bleeding" in Sichuan. "

⑤ "Hunan medicine records": "Qingfei, Jiedu, diuretic detumescence. Treatment of edema, ascites. "

⑥ Guizhou herbal medicine: "Qingre Sandu, Qufeng dehumidification, cough. Treatment of sweet potato sores (mostly around the ears, shaped like sweet potato fruit). "

⑦ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "invigorating spleen and removing dampness, clearing lung and relieving cough. Treatment of children with dyspepsia, damp heat jaundice, wind heat cough, rheumatic bone pain. "

⑧ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "astringent dysentery. For dysentery, abdominal pain, scrofula, snakebite, fracture. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-8 yuan. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat dysentery: four liang of sweet potato vine (fresh), fried with coke, fried with yellow sugar, and taken in boiling water. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

② Treatment of cough, hematemesis, yin deficiency fever: sweet potato stem five to eight money, decoction. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of unknown swelling poison, soup fire injury: sweet potato vine mashed, sesame oil on the affected area. (Hunan medical records)

④ Treatment of sweet potato sores: sweet potato vine, raw with a grip, mash, apply on the sores, leave the head, with dry with change. If it has been festering, take the root bark of cotton tree, bake it as a fine powder, and sprinkle it on the sore. (Guizhou folk medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of dyspepsia in children

Take 3 jin of fresh whole grass (stem, leaf) or rhizome, add 10000 ml of water and simmer for 3 hours to make 3000 ml. 20 ml each time for children aged 6 months and 25-30 ml each time for children aged 7 months to 1 year. They were taken 2-3 times a day until their stools were normal. 331 cases were treated, aged from 6 months to 2.5 years, with the shortest course of 1 day and the longest course of 10 days, including 5 cases of simple dyspepsia and 326 cases of toxic dyspepsia. Results 261 cases were cured, the others were poor or ineffective. All the cured cases were supplemented with infusion and correction of electrolyte disorder. Generally, the decrease of defecation or antidiarrhea can be seen 2-3 days after taking the medicine, and there is no recurrence after the treatment. The first day of treatment should be based on the condition of fasting for 6-24 hours. Practice has proved that the liquid medicine must be concentrated, otherwise it will affect the curative effect; the fresh medicine is better than the dry medicine, and the rhizome is better than the whole grass.