Lao junxu

Lao junxu

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[synonym] grandma's needlework bag (Cao Mu Bian Fang), Zhenggu Cao, grandma's clothes, Rongzhen (collection of common folk herbal medicines), Baiwei, zhulingxiao (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine), yakiupixiao, niujiaofeng, jiuliantai (Shaanxi traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the root and rhizome of the family Asclepiadaceae.

[plant morphology] Xueli flat peach

Perennial herbs, up to 40-70 cm high, all with white milk. The rhizome is short, the fibrous root is many and slender, the soil yellow. Stem erect, usually unbranched, densely grayish white pubescent. Leaves opposite, shortly stipitate; ovate elliptic to broadly ovate, 6-10 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, apex short pointed, acuminate or obtuse, entire, base rounded or cuneate. Inflorescence axillary, usually umbelliform; flowers small, pale yellow; corolla 5-lobed, glabrous, corolla lobes almost as high as style, broadly triangular; stamen 5, pollen block 2 drooping; pistil 1, ovary superior, composed of 2 seperate carpels, style 2, seperate. Follicles lanceolate, glabrous, 4-5 cm long. Seeds broadly ovate, apex with a bunch of white hairs, margin winged, ca. 2 mm long. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is July.

It grows in grass and forest on hillside. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] in summer and autumn, the above ground parts were removed and dried.

[medicinal material] the dried rhizome is about 2-3cm long, with many side-by-side stem residues on the surface, rough and brown in appearance, and yellow white in cross section. The fibrous roots are small, clumped around the rhizome, twisted and not straight, about 3-5cm long; the appearance is brown and wrinkled; the texture is fragile, and the cross section is yellowish white. The smell is weak.

Produced in Sichuan.

[flavor] pungent, flat.

① "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "Xin, Wen. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes sweet, slightly pungent and has a flat nature. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and detoxifying. It is used to treat deficiency tuberculosis, chronic cough, edema, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, scrofula and scabies.

① Cao Mu Bian Fang: "tonifying Yin, strengthening Yin, transforming poison. It can be used to treat chronic cough, deficiency and swelling, ulcer, snake, insect and mad dog. "

② Classification of herbal medicine: "sticking itch, dispersing poison, relieving hernia, stopping nosebleed, treating women's leucorrhea, dizziness and scabies. "

③ "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "pain, detoxification, treatment of scrofula, milk, cough. "

④ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "nourishing yin and kidney, strengthening spleen and Qi, regulating menstruation and activating blood circulation. Treatment of irregular menstruation, yin deficiency leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.