Butterfly grass root

Butterfly grass root

(Guiyang folk herbs)

It's closed at night.

[source] it is the root of leguminous plant Bauhinia parvifolia.

[plant morphology] Bauhinia pseudophaeophylla, also known as butterfly grass.

Climbing woody vines, 1.5-2.5 m long. The whole plant is covered with rare reddish brown pubescence. Stem nearly cylindrical and slightly flat, angulate. There are two opposite tendrils at the lower part of each branch, curling inward, single leaf alternate, petiolate, 2-3cm long. The leaves are round or nearly kidney shaped, the base is shallow heart-shaped or nearly truncated, the apex is 2-lobed to the middle of the leaves, the tip of the lobes is round, the whole margin, and there is a linear whisker at the division; the top is bright green, glabrous, the bottom is pink white, sparsely reddish brown pilose, and the top is thick The leaves are 5-7 cm long and 5.2-7 cm wide, and a few are about 3 cm long and 4 cm wide. Corymbose, 10-19 flowers, about 5 cm long, bracts and bracteoles filiform, all red brown pilose; calyx tube 1.3 cm long, cylindrical, upper 5-lobed; corolla 5-petal, pseudobutterfly, fertile stamen 3: pistil 1, ovary glabrous, stigma capitate. The pods are banded, black when dry, with obvious reticulate veins, 12-23 cm long and 4 cm wide. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from July to August.

Distributed in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] in summer and autumn.

[medicinal material] the roots are mostly cut into oblique pieces, about 2 mm thick, rough in appearance, dark brown and slightly brown. The cortex is light brown, the heart is woody, yellow white, with many pores. It has no Qi and slightly bitter taste.

[taste] astringent, flat, non-toxic.

[function indications] astringent hemostasis; treatment of cough, enuresis, hemoptysis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (fresh 1-2 Liang); or stewed meat. External use: grind and sprinkle.

[selection of prescriptions] ① for cough, hemoptysis and hematemesis, close the door one to two times at night. Stew pig lungs or fry them in water.

② Treatment of large intestine blood: close the door one or two at night, banana root one or two, with hemp root five money, Gleditsia sinensis thorn two money, yellow carry five money. Put the medicine into the large intestine of pigs, or stew sweet wine lees.

③ Treatment of enuresis or night urination: close the door one or two at night. First, soak it with Shaojiu, dry it in the sun, then stir fry it with vinegar, then stew half a jin of pork, or stew it with pig urine. Take one dose every three days, even three doses.

④ Red collapse: five money for closing the door at night, a piece of red paper (burnt ash), and three money for Chen Zong (burnt ash). Fried sweet wine and fermented grains. After recovery, with peony five money, peony root two money, a stewed chicken to eat.

⑤ Treatment of leucorrhea: Night closed three money, angelica three preserves, a piece of white paper (ash). Fried sweet wine and fermented grains. After recovery with peony five money, peony root two money, steamed chicken a oral.

⑥ Treatment of women with uterine prolapse: close the door at night, screw meat. Dry, grind, wash and take (take orally, close at night for 5 yuan).