One legged Mandarin

One legged Mandarin

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonyms] Gancao (flora of Guangzhou), changliuxi (flora of Nanning), manlaohanju (flora of Guangxi), jinsuozhuo (folk herbal medicine of Southern Fujian), dilianzhi (investigation of plant medicine in Guizhou), Lucao (Guangdong herbal medicine II), huanghuagan (Guangdong herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] Eupatorium japonicum

Annual herb, 8-15 cm high. Stem erect, scabrous or hairy, solitary or slightly branched. Upper leaves alternate, linear; lower leaves opposite, linear or lanceolate, leaves ca. 1 cm or shorter, rarely dentate, sometimes reduced to scales. Inflorescence terminal, yellow, red or white flowers, the lower part is distant, the upper part is close, sessile; bracts are usually longer than calyx; calyx tubular, 5-lobed, usually with 10 edges; corolla tube slender, about 8 mm long, curved near the top, lip shaped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, upper lip shorter than lower lip; stamen 4, enclosed, anther 1-locular; pistil 1, style slender, apical rod-shaped. Capsule subglobose or oblong, locular, many seeds. The flowering period is July. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows on the grassland of plain and hills and often parasitizes on the roots of other plants. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Fujian and other places.

[collection] collect in summer and autumn, wash and dry.

[medicinal material] the dried whole grass is yellowish brown or greenish brown, with thin stems and gray white hairs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, mostly deciduous. There are sparse spikes above the middle part, and most of them have fallen off except for a few fruitless plants with withered corolla. Calyx tubular, capsule dark brown, hidden in calyx tube, style remains, seeds small, yellowish brown. The plants with integrity, greenness and no mud and sand impurities are preferred.

It is produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places,

In Guangxi, there is also a kind of whole grass of the same genus. It has the same function and can be used as this product. See "little white flower".

[chemical composition] it contains amino acids, organic acids and phenols.

[flavor] sweet and light, flat.

① "Preparation of the nature of raw herbal medicine": "it is mild in taste and flat in nature. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "sweet, light, flat. "

③ "Ganping, slightly bitter. "

④ "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "it tastes light and slightly poisonous. "

Functions and indications: clearing liver, strengthening spleen, eliminating food and killing insects. Treatment of infantile food injury, malnutrition, jaundice, night blindness.

① "Preparation for the nature of raw herbal medicine": in addition to children's yellow Qi, insect accumulation. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "eliminate malnutrition, accumulate yellow swelling. "

③ "Nanning medical records": "antipyretic thirst, Xiaoshi. Treat malnutrition and thirst. "

④ "Treatment of liver vermiculi disease" in wild medicine Zhi Tu Shuo. "

⑤ "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "kill insects, detoxify, clear heart fire. "

⑥ Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "invigorating the spleen and eliminating accumulation. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-5 yuan.

[selection] 1. To treat infantile malnutrition and night blindness: three or five coins of one legged orange. Cooked with pig liver, once a day. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of infantile food injury: one foot golden dry whole grass, cut leaf iron broom each three to five money. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

③ To cure night blindness: five to one or two dollars for the whole herb. Cooked with liver of poultry and livestock. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)