Black Asarum

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(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] four tiles (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Kunming), four heavenly kings, earth asarum, flat headed asarum, four diamond (selected Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan).

[source] it is the whole grass and root of Chloranthaceae.

[plant morphology] whole Chloranthus

Herbs perennial, ca. 30 cm tall. The rhizome is transverse and has many fibrous roots with special aroma. Stem erect, unbranched, lower part purplish, glabrous, nodes swollen, each node with 2 scalelike leaflets. The leaf blade is elliptic, 9 cm long and 5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin serrate, veins obvious; petiole is about 1 cm long. Spikes terminal; bracts undivided; flowers small, yellowish green, without perianth; stamen connective apex 3-lobed, extending into linear, ca. 1 cm long. Drupe obovate, green when hot. It blooms in summer.

Most of them grow under the wet forest and beside the ditch. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi.

[collection] the whole grass was harvested in summer and autumn. The roots are picked in autumn, washed and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] 1. Common folk herbs in Kunming: "slightly bitter and astringent, warm. "

② Selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "pungent, warm, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, harmonizing blood stasis, detumescence and relieving pain. Treatment of cold, rheumatic pain, lymphadenitis, sore carbuncle, traumatic injury, fracture.

① "Common folk herbs in Kunming": "Qufeng dehumidification, Shujin Huoluo, Zhitong. It is used to treat rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, traumatic injury, blood stasis and swelling, liver wind and superior headache. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "removing blood stasis and swelling, bone grafting, hemostasis, malaria cutting. Treatment of cold, cold, injury, fracture, rheumatism pain, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, lymphadenitis, neurasthenia, malaria, carbuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; or as pills, soaking wine. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of liver wind headache: four tiles, Yanmo or honey pills. (common folk herbs in Kunming)

② Treatment of toothache: four tiles, two to three dollars. Take it in water. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

③ Cure sore carbuncle: fresh four tile leaf mash add powder external application. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)