Flying dragon palm blood

Chinese Name: blood from the palm of flying dragon

Class: root

[synonyms] xuelianchang, jianxuefei (classified herbal medicine), xuejianchou (Guiyang folk medicine), dajiujia (Guizhou folk medicine), 300bang, jianxuesan (Hunan medicine records), sanxuedan (Guangxi medicine plant list), feilongzhanxue (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection).

[source] it is the root or root bark of Anthurium andraeanum.

[plant morphology] dragon palm blood, also known as yellow pepper (classified herbal), xiaojinteng, tongchenghu, Xijiao.

Woody vines. The branches are densely barbed, the old branches are brown, the young branches are light green or yellowish green, with white lenticels. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, obovate, oblong to oblanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, apex acute or apical, base cuneate, margin serrulate or rugose, leathery, glabrous on both sides, with faint glandular spots. Flowers are unisexual, white, cyan or yellow; bracts are very small; sepals are 4-5, margin is short hairy; petals are 4-5, outer surface is short puberulent at first; male flowers often form axillary corymbose panicles, stamens are 4-5, longer than petals; female flowers often form cymose panicles, flowers are few, sterile stamens are 4-5, ovary is hairy. The fruit is orange yellow to scarlet, with dark glandular spots, fleshy peel and 3-5 slightly raised ribs on the surface. Seeds reniform, black. The flowering period is from October to December. The fruit period is from December to February next year.

It grows on hillside, roadside, shrub or sparse forest. It is distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, etc.

The leaves of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] all year round. After collection, cut into small pieces about 30 cm long, wash and dry.

[herbal medicine] the dried root is rod-shaped, about 2-3cm in diameter. The surface is gray brown, with fine longitudinal lines and most verrucous protuberances. The cork at protuberances falls off, exposing bright yellow or reddish yellow cortex, and the texture is rough. After peeling off the cortex, the wood column can be seen, and the texture is straight and fine. Hard, not easy to break, flat section. The air is weak and the taste is light.

Produced in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi and other places.

[nature and taste] Guiyang folk herbs: "hard work, warm, non-toxic. "

[chemical composition]: the root contains chelerythrine (toddaline), dihydrochelerythrine (toddaline), etc.

Functions and indications: dispel wind, relieve pain, disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding. It is used to treat rheumatic pain, stomachache, traumatic injury, hematemesis, hematemesis, bleeding of child officials, bleeding of knife wounds, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, intercostal neuralgia, sore, furuncle, swelling and poison.

① "Classification of herbal medicine": "dispersing blood and breaking Qi, treating rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, and vomiting blood. "

② Guizhou folk medicine: "dispersing blood stasis, relieving exterior. Treatment of cold, cough, abdominal colic. "

③ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treat eye redness and swelling, pannus membrane. "

④ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "treat dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, blood clot, fatigue, vomiting, rheumatism, numbness, muscle pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 Liang; or soak in wine, grind. External use: grind the end to scatter to apply or adjust to apply.

[should not] pregnant women should not use it.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of hematemesis and bleeding: see blood fly three money, red and white two pills one money, white grass root five money. A total of research fine powder, Tongbian for lead, decoction service. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatic swelling and pain, trauma pain, intercostal neuralgia: feilongzhang blood dried root skin four to six money, water decoction service, can also dip wine service. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

③ Treatment of metrorrhagia: see Xuefei, Chen AI each three money, Chen zongtan, baicaoshuang each four money. Decoct in water and take with sugar. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of amenorrhea, stomachache: feilongzhang blood three to five money, decoction. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury: see blood fly three money, red root two money, Achyranthes bidentata three money. Research on the use of wine in the end. Such as head injury, plus Qiang Huo two money, Ligusticum two money. (Guiyang folk herbs)

⑥ Bone: see Xuefei, rhubarb, crab. They were mashed and packed. (Shaanxi)

⑦ Treatment of wound bleeding, wound pain: see blood fly two money, borneol five points. Grind into fine powder and mix with external application. (Guiyang folk medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of chronic lumbocrural pain

One hundred milliliter (1 to 2 sticks) of acupoint injection was given once a day. A total of 40 cases were observed, including 29 cases of intramuscular injection and 11 cases of acupoint injection (Shenshu, Dachangshu, Cihu, Chengshan). Except for 1 case of spinal tuberculosis, the other 39 cases had significant analgesic effect. After 6 months of treatment, 17 cases had no recurrence of pain, and 22 cases had recurrence, but the degree of pain was alleviated and the number of attacks was reduced. No side effects and toxic reactions were found.