Corydalis pallida

Corydalis pallida

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonyms] heartbroken herb (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals), yellow croaker lantern herb, dung bucket herb (Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant annals), Shilian (Henan traditional Chinese medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Corydalis parviflora.

[plant morphology] Corydalis parviflora

Annual herb, odorous, 10-60 cm high. The root is slender. The stem is much branched. Leaf blade triangular in outline, 3-12 cm long, 2-3 pinnately divided, 1-4 pairs of lobes, 2-or 3-lobes ovate or broadly ovate in outline, lobed or deeply lobed, terminal lobes narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, apex obtuse or rounded. Raceme 3-10 cm long; bracts narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 1.5-5 mm long; sepals 2, ovate; corolla 4-petal, yellow, upper petal 6-9 mm long, anterior lip shaped, posterior spur, saccate, 1-2 mm long, lower petal dorsal, anterior part slightly keel protuberant, two lateral pieces apex united; stamen 6, 2-body, filament base with nectary, extending into the spur; pistil 1. Capsule strip, 2-3 cm long, 1.5 mm wide. Seeds black, oblate, ca. 1 mm in diam., densely punctate. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruit period is June.

It grows at the foot of a wall, in a crevice of a stone or in a meadow beside a gully. It is distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Pearl River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, and reaches the south of Shaanxi and the southwest of Henan in the north.

[collection] harvest in summer, wash and dry.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains protopine and racetetrahydropalmatine.

Bitter, cold and poisonous.

① "The nature is cold, the taste is bitter and astringent, and it is poisonous. "

② "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs": "taste slightly bitter, cool nature. "

It has the functions of killing insects, diuresis and detoxification. It can cure scabies, sore toxin, swelling and pain, red eyes, flowing fire, summer heat, diarrhea, lung disease, hemoptysis, infantile convulsion.

① "Zhejiang Tianmu yam Zhi": Confucian poison killing insects. It can cure snake bite. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "clearing away heat, diuresis and dysentery. "

⑧ Jiangxi "herbal medicine manual": treatment of scabies and toxic scabies. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping or root rubbing with wine or vinegar. Oral: fried soup, 1 ~ 2 yuan (fresh 0.5 ~ 1 liang): or mashed juice.

[taboo] Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "generally, it is not taken orally. "

[prescription selection] 1. For psoriasis and tinea intractable: Radix Corydalis grinding wine and vinegar external application. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

② Treatment of sore, swelling and pain: fresh Cordyceps five money, fried; and with fresh leaves mashed juice coated on the affected area. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

③ Treatment of snakebite: fresh Cordyceps, mash juice coating. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

④ Treatment of red swelling and pain: Yellow pansy fresh whole grass with salt a little mash, after closing the affected eyes. Wrap it up and stay in bed for two hours.

⑤ To control Liuhuo: one or two yellow Cordyceps. Add yellow rice wine and brown sugar. Three days in a row.

⑥ Treatment of summer fever, diarrhea and dysentery: one or two whole herbs of Corydalis viola. Take it in boiling water for several days.

⑦ Treatment of lung disease and hemoptysis: one to two pairs of whole Cordyceps. Mash and take the juice. (4) common folk herbs in Zhejiang Province

⑧ Treatment of children convulsions, mindless: fresh yellow pansy one or two. Take it in water. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)