Lotus bean vegetable

Lotus bean vegetable

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] tuanye'er Chang, groundnut, ruffian grass (Guizhou folk medicine), lotus bean, shuiqingcao, qingshezi, youmi vegetable (Hainan flora), chuanqiancao, shuiholland, shuishuibing, qingqiancao (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant of Dianthus Caryophyllaceae.

[plant morphology] lotus bean

Annual scattered herbs. Stem smooth, near the base of some branches, branches weak, 60-90 cm long. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate; leaves ovate to suborbicular, 1-2.5 cm wide, apex rounded and cuspidate, base broadly cuneate or subcuneate, 3-5-veined, membranous; stipules setose. Inflorescence scattered, axillary or terminal; flowers small, green, pedicel slender; bracts with membranous margin; sepals 5, narrowly oblong, 3-3.5 mm long, 3-veined, margin membranous; petals 5, 2-lobed below middle, lobes narrow, shorter than sepals; stamens 3-5, opposite sepals; style short, 2-lobed, base United. Capsule ovoid. Seeds 1 to many, round, compressed, rough. The flowering period is spring and autumn.

Born in the mountains and wet areas. It is distributed from the south to the southwest of China.

Bitter and cool.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is slightly astringent. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cool. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For sore, furuncle, carbuncle, jaundice, malaria, rheumatism and beriberi.

① "Guizhou folk medicine": "treatment of rheumatism, jaundice, scattered lumps. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "anti inflammation, detumescence, detoxification, heat clearing. It is used to treat heat sores, sores, carbuncle poisons, snake wounds, ophthalmitis, infantile malnutrition and infantile asthma. "

③ "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "clearing away heat and inflammation, removing dampness and removing Yi. Treatment of jaundice, malaria, pterygium, fracture, carbuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang); soak in wine or mash juice. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] ① treatment of jaundice: one or two for tuanye Geer intestine and one or two for Jinzhenhua. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of rheumatism and beriberi: one or two intestines of tuanye geese. Wine making clothes.

③ Treatment of pimple: mash the goose intestines and stir fry the affected area. (Guizhou folk medicine was selected)