Buddha's nails

Buddha's nails

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] Wasong (Yunnan materia medica), wahua, dianwa, Shihua, shigen, jiutoushicao, yanruyi (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] stems and leaves of Crassulaceae.

[plant morphology] fingernail

Perennial herbs, 10-18 cm high, glabrous in whole, rooting on the ground. The stem is light red, with prominent purplish red spots on it and many branches on the upper part. The impeller is linear, 7-25 mm in length and 1.5-2.5 mm in width. The apex is short pointed, the base is short rectangular, and both sides are green. Cymes, scattered; flowers small, yellow; sepals 5, leaflike, sometimes pseudorectangular, linear lanceolate, usually unequal; petals 5, ovate lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, apex long acute; stamens 10, filamentous, 2.5-4 mm long, anthers elliptic, yellow, dorsal; carpels 5, separate, style 5, as long as stamens. Follicles. It blooms at the end of summer.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, fresh or dried.

[nature and taste] "the South Yunnan Materia Medica" is slightly cold in nature and slightly pungent in taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, stopping bleeding, dispelling wind and dampness. Treatment of sore throat, epistaxis, wind heat dizziness, rheumatoid arthritis pain, nasal crevasse, eczema, sore poison.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it can cure sore throat, eliminate breast moth, treat wind cold dampness arthralgia in meridians, pain in muscles and bones, wash sore dampness heat toxin. "

② "The picture of Materia Medica in the south of Yunnan" says: "tamping on the fontanel can stop epistaxis, and the wound is also good. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, stopping bleeding, lowering blood pressure, dispelling wind and dampness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or mash juice. External use: tamping or burning, grinding and scattering.

[selection] 1. Treatment of sore throat and pain of breast moth: mash the fresh watsone, add clear water, and remove the residue. If you can use wine, take it with wine; if you don't drink wine, take it with vinegar. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of wind heat, dizziness, eye fog, high blood pressure: tile spend one to six money. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis pain: wahuagen three money, decoction.

④ Treatment of eczema, sore poison: fresh tile flowers, boiling water wash or mash applied to the affected area. (2) Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)

⑤ Treatment of nasal chancre rotten through its hole, do not close the mouth: Wasong burning, research the end of the liniment. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)