Old cochlear

Old cochlear

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] Tianlan (Jiangsu Prefecture annals), Medicago sativa, Medicago multiflora (Chinese higher plant Atlas), qingjiugang, wild peanut, desoluo (Guizhou herbal medicine), yaquezui, sansanguang (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual), jiejincao (Kunming folk herbal medicine).

[source] the whole plant of Medicago sativa L.

[plant morphology] Medicago sativa L

Herbs annual or perennial. Stem 30-60 cm high, prostrate or oblique, hairy or glabrous. 3-pinnate leaflets; leaflets obovate or broadly elliptic, 0.7-2 cm long, apex obtuse, emarginate, base broadly cuneate, upper part denticulate, with white hairs on both sides; stipules obliquely ovate, 5-12 mm long. Flowers 10-15, densely integrated into a head, axillary; pedicel 1-3 cm long, glandular hairy; flowers butterfly shaped, calyx short, calyx teeth long; corolla yellow, 1.5-2 mm long; stamens 9-1; style needle shaped. Pods curved, kidney shaped, about 2 mm long, spinless, later black, longitudinally striated, containing 1 seed. The seeds are yellowish brown.

It grows everywhere.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains estrogen like components. The seeds contain saponin, galactose and mannan. The oil content of pod is 0.8%, hard protein 15.66%, cellulose 24.63%, ash 8.05%, soluble carbohydrates 40.21%.

[nature and taste] Guizhou herbal medicine: "sweet and astringent, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, relieving cough. Treatment of jaundice hepatitis, sciatica, rheumatism, muscle pain, cough, hemorrhoids blood.

① "Treatment of injury" in the book of names, facts and pictures of plants. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and dampness, cooling blood and stopping asthma. "

③ "Common folk herbs in Kunming": "Shujin Huoluo, Qingre diuretic. "

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

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of icteric hepatitis: five coins of jiejincao, one or two roots of Shifu. Take it in water.

② Treatment of sciatica, rheumatism, muscle and bone, labor pain: jiejincao three to five money. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of leukemia: jiejincao Wuqian. Take it in water. (1) common folk herbs in Kunming are listed below.)

④ Cough: Wild peanuts or two, simmer boiled eggs.

⑤ Treatment of hemorrhoids or large intestine bleeding: Wild peanut one or two. Make sweet wine and water.

⑥ Cure yellow pox: Wild peanut two Liang. Simmer water clothes. (4) Guizhou herbal medicine

⑦ Treatment of Snakehead: Tianlan alfalfa and bittern mash package, change 1-2 times a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑧ Treatment of borer, wasp, snake bite: Tianlan alfalfa mashed topical. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)