Bitter dish

Bitter dish

(Liaoning)

[synonym] Mantianxing (identification of main wild medicinal plants and new preparation of Chinese herbal medicine in Heilongjiang Province).

[source] it is the current year seedling of Ixeris Sonchus.

[plant morphology] Ixeris Sonchus

Perennial herbs, up to 1 meter high. The roots are strong and vertical. Stem erect. The root leaves are arranged in rosette shape, the leaves are oblong oblanceolate, inverted to feathery cleft or pinnate notch, the apex is short pointed or obtuse round, the base is narrow into a stalk, and the flowering period usually does not wither; the stem leaf base embraces the stem. The inflorescence is arranged in corymbose shape; the involucre is round and plucked, the outer bracts are very short, and the inner bracts are linear lanceolate; the flowers are yellow, all tongue shaped, with 5 teeth at the apex; the style is slender, the stigma is 2-lobed, the crown hair is white, with one layer. Achene spindle, slightly flat, beak about 1 / 4 of the length of achene, usually different color with achene. It blooms in spring.

Born at the foot of the mountain, roadside, sparse forest, river. It is distributed in Northeast and Inner Mongolia.

The variety of this product is also used as medicine.

[collection] harvest in summer and air dry.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoids.

[pharmacological action] it has analgesic and antispasmodic effects, and its analgesic effect is not parallel to the content of total flavonoids. It also has anti-inflammatory effect.

[nature and taste] 1. Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cold. "

② Bitterness and bitterness make peace. (Liaoning)

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, expelling pus and relieving pain. Treatment of appendicitis, enteritis, dysentery, various suppurative inflammation, hematemesis, bleeding, headache, toothache, chest and abdominal pain, yellow water sores, hemorrhoids.

① "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": "clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, removing pus, treating appendicitis, enteritis, dysentery, sore, carbuncle, hematemesis, bleeding. "

② Pain relief. Treatment of headache, toothache, chest pain, stomach, abdominal pain, trauma pain, as well as small and medium-sized postoperative pain. (Liaoning)

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or made into tablets, 1-2 tablets. External use: fumigation with boiling water or mixed application with grinding powder.

[selection] ① for appendicitis: five yuan for Ixeris sonchifolia, one or two yuan for Coix lacryi and two yuan for aconite. Fried in water, twice a day.

② Treatment of yellow water sores: Ixeris crassifolia. At the end of the research, sesame oil was applied.

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids: Ixeris crassifolia. Chop, fry and wash. (Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)