Yellow flower mother

Yellow flower mother

(Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] dingcao, bapuxiao, huanghuameng, pujianchou, digaoyao, calendula, Danzhi, shengchilong, huanghuaren, huanghuawu, huanghuacao, Xiaochaihu (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Rhodomyrtus albopictus

5-1 m in height. Branchlets densely covered with stellate soft woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong lanceolate, or rhombic, 1.5-4 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex short pointed or rounded, margin serrate; thin papery, covered with short stellate hairs above, gray white below, densely stellate pilose; petiole about 3-6 mm long; stipules spinose. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; petioles weak, with nodes above the middle, about 1-2 cm long; calyx green, stellate pilose, 5-lobed; petals 5, yellow, broadly obovate, apex obtuse and concave, base connate, connate with stamen tube; stamens numerous, filaments connate into tubular, glabrous, with sparse glandular papillae; carpels 8-10, ring around the central axis, smooth or slightly wrinkled, Ca. 2. 5 mm, enclosed in calyx. Capsule nearly discoid, 6-7 mm in diam., carpel separated from axis at maturity, apically with 2 awns. The flowering period is from November to December.

Born in hilly land, hillside, seashore, ditch or roadside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Fujian, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, etc.

The root of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

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

The young branches are stellate pilose, and the old branches are glabrous with reticular texture. The complete leaves are oblong lanceolate or rhombic, dark green on the surface, gray green on the back, and stellate pilose. Peanuts in axils, yellow. It is slightly fragrant and tasteless. It is better to be dry and free of mud and sand.

Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and other places.

[pharmacological action] the water alcohol extract of the whole herb can contract the small intestine of rats in vitro, and can be antagonized by antihistamines; it has no effect on the movement of duodenum in rabbits. Its leaves contain a lot of mucus, which can be used as expectorant and lubricant. This plant does not contain bitterness, alkaloids, volatile oil, saponins and triterpenoids, and ephedrine has also been reported. Sidahumilis has anti-inflammatory effect on formaldehyde induced arthritis in rats.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, cool.

① "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "slightly sour and astringent taste, cool nature, non-toxic. "

② "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine": "sweet, light. "

③ "Gan Xin, Liang" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. "

[Guijing] Quanzhou materia medica: "into the heart, liver, lung, intestines and intestines.". "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and discharging pus. Treatment of influenza, cold, tonsillitis, dysentery, enteritis, jaundice, hemorrhoids, hematemesis, carbuncle, gangrene.

① "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "cool, remove poison, detumescence and discharge pus. Sores and furuncles. "

② "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "clearing heat, dispersing blood stasis, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, treating chronic diseases of intestinal hemorrhoids, bleeding. "

③ "The manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine" of Guangzhou Army: "dispersing wind, relieving exterior, dispersing blood stasis and removing poison. Treat influenza, cold, tonsillitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, gangrene and sores. "

④ "Clearing away heat and dampness, expelling pus and promoting muscle growth" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou air force. Treatment of jaundice, malaria, suppurative inflammation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 1-3 Liang). External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of excessive hematemesis by exertion: two liang of fresh huanghuamu. Stewed pork. (Quanzhou materia medica)

② Treat gout of joint, muscle and bone: dry whole herb of huanghuamu, two liang each time, decoct in water. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids swelling poison, fracture (after reduction, small splint fixation): huanghuamu fresh leaves smashed external application of the affected area. (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of eczema: Huang Huaren stewed with water. (Mindong materia medica)

⑤ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: huanghuaren head appropriate, tamping wound. (Mindong materia medica)

Chinese PinYin : Huang Hua Mu