Chrysanthemum ginseng

Chrysanthemum ginseng

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonym] qianqiangshen, yikesong, banbianqian.

[source] it is the root of Gentianaceae.

[plant morphology] Gentiana scabra

Herbs perennial, short, ca. 5 cm tall. The root number, fleshy, thin cylindrical or spindle shaped, yellow white. No main stem. The leaves are small, radiate, flat; linear lanceolate, 1.2-2.4 cm long, 3 mm wide, apex pointed, base broad, embracing each other, main veins slightly protruding on both sides, gray white below, entire. The flower stems are drawn out from the leaves, with 1-2 flowers on each stem; purple blue; the Corolla is long and narrow, funnel-shaped, with 5 petals. Capsule.

It grows in the grass on the sunny slope of sparse forest in the mountains. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] collection in summer and autumn. Wash and dry.

[nature and taste] "South Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "it tastes bitter and slightly sweet, and its nature is slightly cold. "

[function indications] it can benefit the lung and kidney, and reduce deficiency heat. Treatment of cough due to lung deficiency, spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, enuresis, and fever due to asthenia.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "boiled chicken to nourish blood, boiled pig to nourish kidney, boiled sheep to Nourish Qi. Taking this ginseng alone can relieve deficiency and fever. "It is used to treat fatigue, deficiency heat, weakness of blood gas, emaciation, deficiency heat, cold in the afternoon, fever at night, five heart trouble heat, sweating in the morning, night sweats, etc. Money ginseng five money, a tender hen, to intestines, into the chicken belly, boiled rotten service. Or fried in water with children's point service, can also be. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying deficiency, benefiting lung, nourishing kidney. After treatment, body deficiency, lung deficiency, cough, dreaminess, spermatorrhea, enuresis, infantile malnutrition. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or stewed chicken.

[prescription selection] ① for cough due to lung deficiency: Chrysanthemum and ginseng, decocted in water. (common folk herbs in Kunming)

② Treatment of deficiency fever: Chrysanthemum ginseng three money, five money. Take it in water. (common folk herbs in Kunming)