Huanyangshen

Huanyangshen

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] tianzhushen, wanzhangshen, Zhuyeqing, dandelion (Diannan materia medica), tieshuba, rootless and leafless (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of long stemmed huanyangshen, a Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] long stem huanyangshen

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. The underground root is round. Stem erect, dark green, longitudinally grooved, branched. Leaves alternate, degenerate into tiny spiny leaves, about 0.5-1 cm long, apex acute. Inflorescence terminal, yellow flowers. Achenes are dark brown with white hairs at the top. It blooms in summer.

It grows on hillside, field side, roadside or grass in wasteland. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] 1. In the south of Yunnan Materia Medica, it is warm in nature and sweet in taste. "

② Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, warm. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney yang, supplementing qi and blood, strengthening spleen and stomach. Treatment of neurasthenia, women with uterine cold infertility, leucorrhea leakage, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation, infantile indigestion and malnutrition.

① "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it can cure all kinds of deficiency and damage, five tuberculosis and seven injuries, blood gas decline, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation, leucorrhea leakage, and damage the governor and Ren channels. "

② Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "invigorate the stomach and eliminate food, invigorate the kidney and strengthen the body. Treatment of children with digestive and malnutrition, stomach pain, sexual neurasthenia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.

[taboo] in the south of Yunnan materia medica: "it should not be used when the lung is hot. If it is misused, it will make people cough up blood, or cough with blood, or nose blood, or irritable. "

[prescription selection] ① treat internal injury, Chong Ren, deficiency and cold of Xiayuan, long term non conception: Huanyang ginseng four Liang, black bone chicken one (intestine removed). Put the ginseng into the belly of the chicken, boil it in water, remove the skin and oil, and dry it in the sun. Every morning take two money, white soup. Or for the end also serve two money. If you use ginseng for three or five dollars, simmer chicken, beef or pork tripe. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of postpartum low back pain: huanyangshen amount, Jianshui bath. (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of tuberculosis: deep four Liang, herb Clematis (small black medicine) two Liang. Stewed chicken. (prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in Yunnan)