Hongheierwan

Hongheierwan

(Shennongjia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] yidianxue, yanwanzi, yuanyangqi, hongbaierwan (shenyijia Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the rhizome of Begonia sinensis.

[plant morphology] Begonia sinensis

Perennial herbs, 20-60 cm high. The rhizomes are mostly double spherical and dark brown. Stem cylindrical, erect, light brown, almost unbranched. Leaves alternate, thin papery, broadly ovate, 5-12 cm long and 3.5-9 cm wide, apex acuminate, often caudate, base cordate, oblique, margin serrate, light green below; petiole slender. Cymes terminal or axillary; flowers smaller and sparse, pink; stamen column shorter than 2 mm. The capsule is 1.2-2 cm long and 3-curled.

It was born in the wet and shady place of the valley. Distribution of the Yangtze River Basin and Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and other places.

[collection] before flowering in summer, the rhizomes were dug, the fibrous roots were removed, the soil was washed and dried in the sun.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, slightly cold.

Function indications: promoting blood circulation to stop bleeding. Treatment of traumatic injury, red collapse, leucorrhea, dysentery.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; wine or stewed meat. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: one or two pills of qianhei. Wine making clothes.

② Treatment of women with red collapse leucorrhea: red black two pills five money. Stewed meat.

③ Jieguba pill: hongheierwan, Tuixiao, tongzishuchong, pumpkin pulp, etc. The wounds were smashed and applied, and the dressing was changed once a day.

④ Treatment of dysentery, blood stasis and abdominal pain: hongheierwan Sanqian. Take it in water or chew it.