Dilixiao

Dilixiao

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] ground glue, knife edge medicine, maggot medicine (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Acanthaceae.

[plant morphology] Quercus microphylla, also known as Clematis petrolata and Luli grass.

Herbs perennial, ca. 20 cm tall. The rhizome is thick and short, creeping and ascending, with thick fibrous roots. Leaves opposite, dense, oblong, 2.5-8 cm long, 1.5-3.6 cm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin corrugated, upper green, lower light green, both sides sparsely covered with small bristles, lateral veins 8-9 pairs; petiole about 0.5 cm long. Flowers from the axils of leaves, with several scapes, branched or unbranched, on which there are leaflike bracts, flower axils in bracts; corolla lavender, tubular, upper expanded, up to 1.5 cm wide. Capsule angular, ca. 2 cm long, valved, with many seeds.

Growing on hillside bushes or grass. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, chopped and dried.

[nature and taste] Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet, light, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. Treatment of pneumonia, tonsillitis, mumps, scrofula, abscess, sore poison, fracture, wound infection.

① Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence and relieving pain. Treatment of fractures, lymph node tuberculosis, mumps, traumatic bleeding. "

② "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "anti inflammation, detoxification, muscle, blood stasis, new, insecticidal. Treatment of acute suppurative tonsillitis, pneumonia, abscess, wound infection maggots. "

③ Guizhou medicine and plant Catalogue: "treatment of labor injury, published. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-4 yuan. External use: Sprinkle with grinding powder or wash with boiling water.

[clinical application] treatment of acute tonsillitis

Take 3 yuan from the plot and fry it twice a day. 20 cases were observed. Fever subsided in 19 hours on average. Tonsillar swelling disappeared in 3-4 days and cured in 4-5 days.