Xianmaoshen

ginseng

(investigation of plant medicine in Shaanxi)

[synonym] Maocao (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), maocaqi, Daozha grass root (Guizhou folk medicine), Tiaoshen, shuisi Maoqi (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Allium vulgare.

[plant morphology] Allium vulgare, also known as arrowhead, Pennisetum and inverted flower.

Herbs perennial, 30-60 cm high, with fine hairs. The root is long and conic, reaching 20 cm deep into the soil. Stem erect, upper branched. Basal leaves tufted, narrowly lanceolate or linear lanceolate, 15-30 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, entire, parallel veins usually 5, petiole with short sheath; cauline leaves alternate, sessile. The inflorescence is large, 2-6, with long peduncle; the peduncle has leaves; the involucre is long and simple, 3-4cm long, the outer bracts are triangular ovate to elliptic lanceolate, the inner bracts are lanceolate, glabrous or slightly hairy, the edge is membranous; the flowers are all ligulate, yellow or light red, the apex is truncated, with 5 teeth; stamens 5, polygenetic; pistil 1, style slender, stigma 2-divergent, apex hooked. Achene, long tubular, ca. 2 cm long; corolla brownish yellow, as long as achene. The flowering period is May.

Born in mountains or fields. Distributed in North China, East China, Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] dig in summer and autumn, wash, dry in the sun or steam and dry in the sun. It can also be used fresh.

[medicinal material] the root is long conical, fleshy, white in cross section when fresh, with milk flowing out. After drying, the surface is brown or brownish black, crisscross and uneven, sometimes exfoliated, and there are stem and leaf residues at the top.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet in taste, warm in nature. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, regulating qi and activating blood circulation. Treatment of exogenous cold, fever, headache, long-term asthma, rheumatic arthralgia, women's amenorrhea, traumatic injury, sores.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "Regulating Qi, regulating blood, detoxifying, treating traumatic injury, menstruation, asthma for a long time, scraping, abdominal pain, sore poison. "

② "Nanjing folk herbal medicine" says: "it can cure five kinds of labor and seven kinds of injuries, apply sores and women's breast swelling. "

③ "Investigation of plant medicine in Shaanxi Province": "invigorating spleen, treating rheumatism. "

④ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and dampness, strengthening spleen, invigorating Qi, generating body fluid, detoxifying. Treatment of labor, rheumatoid arthritis pain, exogenous cold, fever, headache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocting soup, 3-5 yuan; soaking wine or grinding powder. External use: tamping.

[optional formula] treatment of traumatic injury, menstruation reversed line: inverted root three to five money, steamed wine service. (Guizhou folk medicine)