Hungry leech

Hungry leech

(summary of Chinese medicinal plants)

[synonym] Anthurium andraeanum (Emei medicinal plant), Sophora tonkinensis, mangyushu, Dahongpao (Guizhou herbal medicine), Desmodium tonkinensis, visandra (Guangxi herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of the leguminous plant Desmodium.

[plant morphology] leech

shrub. Stem 1-2 m high, angular, sparsely pilose. Leaflets elliptic obovate, apical leaflets 5.5-9 cm long, 3.5-5.4 cm wide, smaller on both sides, apex obtuse or acute, with a hard tip, base cuneate, obtuse, few glabrous on the top, lower venation covered with close pubescence; petiole 1.5-4 cm long; stipules small, subulate. Racemes axillary or terminal, up to 16 cm; bracts lanceolate, ciliate, abscission, 1 cm long; pedicels ca. 5 mm; flowers purple, 10 mm long; calyx ca. 4.5 mm long, calyx teeth 5, triangular, acute, as long as calyx tube: corolla butterfly shaped, flag petal rounded to oblong elliptic, wing petal adnate to keel petal; stamens 10; ovary linear. Ventral dorsal suture covered with silky hairs. Pods 15-24 mm long, densely covered with brown close silky hairs, ventral suture constricted, dorsal suture dentate; nodes 4-7, 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. The flowering period is from July to September.

Growing on hillside grass or forest edge. Distributed in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[nature and taste] 1. Guizhou herbal medicine: "cool in nature, bitter in taste. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet taste, flat nature. "

[function indications] tonifying deficiency, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It is used to treat stomachache, infantile malnutrition and women's dry blood tuberculosis.

① Emei Yaozhi: "Qingre" was published. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "tonifying weakness, promoting blood circulation, stopping malaria and relieving pain. "

③ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "Xiaoshi Zhitong, jieshe. Treatment of stomach pain, infantile malnutrition, snakebite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.

[prescription selection] ① for abdominal pain: take one cent of the root of Sophora tonkinensis seed at the end of the study; or take five cents of the root of Sophora tonkinensis in boiling water. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

② To cure women's dry blood tuberculosis: one or two roots of Sophora tonkinensis. Take the first dose of fried wine and the second dose of stewed meat. (Guizhou herbal medicine)