The land is astringent

The land is astringent

(Shaanxi herbal medicine)

[synonym] xiantaocao, yangpi Cao (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is a whole plant of Scrophularia Scrophularia with galls in its fruit.

[plant morphology] Veronica microphylla is also known as Veronica thymifolia.

Small perennial herbs, 6-20 cm high. Gray white rhizome slender, with many fibrous roots. Stem base prostrate, branched, pubescent. Lower leaves opposite, upper leaves alternate; ovate or elliptic, 6-12 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, subentire or denticulate; sessile or very short petiole. Raceme terminal; flowers nearly white with blue stripes, pedicel base with lanceolate bracts; calyx 4-lobed; corolla tube very short, limb 4-lobed; stamens 2; ovary superior, 2-locular. Capsule subglobose, apex concave.

It grows in the edge grass of mountain forest. It is distributed in northwest, northeast, North China, central and South China.

[collection] from June to July, the whole grass with gall in the fruit was harvested, steamed, dried or fresh.

[chemical constituents] the content of aucubin and mannitol was 0.16% and 0.45% respectively.

[nature and taste] 1. Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes sweet, bitter and astringent. "

② Shaanxi herbal medicine: "sour and astringent in taste, flat in nature. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation to stop bleeding, clearing away heat and toxic substances. Treatment of traumatic injury, irregular menstruation, trauma bleeding, aphthous ulcer, soup fire injury.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, hemostasis, detoxification. Treatment of traumatic injuries, with blood stasis, trauma bleeding, irregular menstruation, snake bite. "

② Shaanxi herbal medicine: "convergence, hemostasis, anti-inflammatory. Treatment of soup fire, mouth sores, stubborn sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boil soup, 1-3 yuan; soak wine or grind powder. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] for traumatic injury, there are blood stasis and internal bleeding: xianhuaicaogou one or two. Flour is processed, one to two yuan each time, Baijiu is washed. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)