Tiger ginger

Tiger ginger

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] baiyaozi (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual), Panlongqi, abalone Qi, jitoushen, Shanjiang (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine), Renie (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the rhizome of Polygonatum convolutum.

[plant morphology] Polygonatum convolutum, also known as Polygonatum verticillatum.

Perennial herbs, 80-150 cm high. Rhizome hypertrophy, into irregular nodules, shaped like ginger, stem marks obvious, disc-shaped. Stem cylindrical, ribbed, tip curved. Leaves 3-8 whorls, linear lanceolate, 7.5-12 cm long, apex curly, with powder below. Flowers small, white, green or purplish, 1-4 flowers per total pedicel, whorled; bracts lanceolate, white, membranous; perianth tubular, apex 6-lobed, with papillary pubescence at the crack; stamen; perianth tube above middle, filaments ciliate; style length equal to ovary. Berries globose, black when ripe.

Born on the edge of mountains and forests. It is distributed in Ningxia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan and Northeast China. It is also cultivated in Shandong and other places.

The rhizome of this product is also used as Polygonatum.

[collection] Chung. Dig the rhizome in autumn. Remove stems, leaves and fibrous roots, wash, slice and dry.

[flavor] Gan Xin, Ping.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes sweet and slightly pungent, warm in nature and has little poison. "

② "Manual of Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine": "Xin, Ping. "

③ "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine" says: "the nature is flat and the taste is sweet. "

Functions and indications: moisten the lung and nourish yin, strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, remove phlegm and stop bleeding, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat deficiency, tuberculosis, cough, dizziness, lack of food, spermatorrhea, night sweats, metrorrhagia, postpartum body loss, hematemesis, hematemesis, traumatic bleeding, sore throat, sore and rash.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying spleen and lung, nourishing yin and kidney, promoting qi and blood circulation, astringent hemostasis, detoxification and sterilization. Treatment of spleen deficiency, less food, lung deficiency cough, dizziness, body pain, spermatorrhea, night sweats, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, sores and boils at the beginning of the disease. "

② "Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual": "expectorant hemostasis, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat cough, hematemesis, epistaxis, traumatic bleeding, sore, sore and swelling. "

③ "Tibet commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "tonifying the spleen and stomach, moistening the lung and promoting body fluid. It can cure deficiency, cough and weakness of muscles and bones. "

④ Nanchuan's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "tonifying the kidney and lung, tonifying qi and nourishing yin. Treatment of postpartum Qi and blood weakness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-5 yuan; grind powder or soak wine. External use: tamping or water grinding juice coating.