Pyrola rubra

Pyrola rubra

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] Zanthoxylum repens, Sambucus williamsii (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), Herba Polygoni cuspidatum, Herba Salviae and Herba Pyrola (Sichuan).

[source] it is the whole plant of Pyrola rubra.

[plant morphology] Pyrola rubra

Perennial herbs. The stem is creeping and creeping, with adventitious roots and buds on the nodes. It gradually grows into a erect stem, 15-30 cm high, soft and covered with sparse fine hairs. The leaves are sparse and alternate; the leaves are nearly round, palmate, 5-7-lobed; the apex of the lobes is blunt, the edge has blunt teeth; the base is heart-shaped; the palmate veins are more obvious, green, and both sides are covered with purple hairs; the leaves are petiolate, 1.5-9 cm long, and the base has stipule sheath. Umbelliform, globose, about 6 mm in diameter, solitary or several aggregated at the upper end of branchlets; total pedicel 0.5-2 cm long; florets greenish white; calyx teeth small; petals 5; stamens 5; ovary inferior, 2-locular, 1 ovule per locule; style 2. Suspensory fruit, nearly round, compressed on both sides. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

It grows in the wet and low grass beside the ditch, roadside and forest. It is distributed in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, etc.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is cool in nature, slightly bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

② Chongqing herbal medicine: "pungent, warm, non-toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat traumatic injury, cold, cough, phlegm and blood.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing lung heat, dispersing blood heat. For hematemesis, traumatic injury, cold and cough. "

② Chongqing herbal medicine: "removing cold and relieving exterior. If the sore is itchy, apply it to remove wind heat and stop itching. Fracture dislocation, outsourcing can be connected to cast tenon. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-8 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: grind the end to adjust to apply or pound to apply.

[formula selection] ① treatment of falls and injuries: Red Pyrola, red acidophilus, and flat bamboo root were equally divided. Smash it. Take two portions of children's stool and one portion of wine, and mix them together to take Sheng's inner shoes; use the dregs of medicine as a paste to cover the injured part. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

② In the treatment of phlegm with blood into granular: Red Pyrola, red sheep Stone root two Liang. Half a jin of wine, boiling, cold after service, each service a small cup. (Chongqing herbal medicine)