Pueraria lobata

Pueraria lobata

(collection of compendium)

[synonyms] Pueraria lobata and cauliflower (compendium), Pueraria lobata and red blood lotus (Sichuan chronicles of traditional Chinese Medicine), luoshuqi (Hunan chronicles of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of ophiurotus.

[plant morphology] snake mushroom

Annual or perennial parasitic endoplasmic herbs, 10-15 cm high. The stem is massive and spherical, thick and hypertrophy, irregularly divided, light yellowish brown, with light white star shaped small protuberances; the flower stem is thick and erect, red, extracted from the top of the tuber, 8-12 cm high, 1-1.5 cm in diameter. The leaves are alternate spirally, attached to the flower stem, degenerate, scaly, ovate, broad ovate or narrow ovate, orange yellow. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious, terminal inner spikes; flowers are small, numerous, dark red, densely distributed on the surface of rachis; perianth of male flowers is 4-6-petaled, deeply split, stamens are 4-6. Filaments united into monomers; female flowers without perianth, pistil 1, ovary elliptic, stipitate, 1-locular, 1-ovule. nut. The flowering period is from June to July.

Parasitic on the roots of woody plants in the forest. It is distributed in the south central and southwest of China.

[collection] collected in August.

[chemical constituents] taraxasterol, β - vanillin and palmitic acid were isolated from the lipid fraction of rhizome and flower.

It is bitter, sweet and cool.

① "Gangmu": "bitter and sweet, non-toxic. "

② "The nature is cool. "

③ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "taste astringent and bitter, cold nature, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying and sobering up. Treatment of wind heat, rash, lung heat, cough, hematemesis, haemorrhoids.

① Compendium: "sober up, cure the accumulation of alcohol. "

② "Gangmu Shiyi": it can relieve muscle heat, disperse wind fire and Yang Ming wind heat rash. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing lung heat, relieving heat toxin. It is used to treat cough, hematemesis, haemorrhoids and hemorrhoids. "

④ "Hunan medicine annals": "refers to the snake head, children penis swelling, mash applied to the affected area. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-6 yuan; or stew meat. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of lung heat, cough and hematemesis: Pueraria lobata, Polygonum multiflorum, Polygonum cuspidatum, Bergenia chinensis, Festuca arundinacea, Cynanchum cuspidatum. Stewed meat. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of intestinal wind blood: Pueraria, laojunxu, palm root. Decoct water to remove the dregs, take the liquid and stew it. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)