Donkeys wallow in grass

Donkeys wallow in grass

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] huanyangshen.

[source] it is the whole herb of tuhuanyangshen, a Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] tuhuanyangshen

Perennial herbs, 10-30 cm high. All are grayish green with milk and hair. Basal leaves clustered, ovate oblong or oblanceolate, 4-10 cm long, apex acuminate or acute, base gradually narrowed into stalks, margin divided into irregular pectinate linear or triangular lobes, lobes entire or with shallow teeth, hairy on both sides. Cauline leaves few, small, linear, entire or pinnately divided. The head inflorescence is solitary or 2-4 gathered at the top of the stem, 2.5-3 cm in diameter, the involucre is linear lanceolate, sharp, densely hairy, all glossy flowers, bright yellow. Achenes fusiform, longitudinally ribbed, with white corolla.

Born on hillside and roadside. It is distributed in Inner Mongolia.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn, wash, chop and dry.

[taste] bitter, slightly cold.

Functions and indications: tonifying Qi, relieving cough and asthma, clearing heat and reducing fire. Treatment of bronchitis, tuberculosis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan: boiling cream or grinding powder for pills. External use: Boil paste coating.

[prescription selection] ① for chronic tracheitis: Huanyang ginseng (2 jin), Dilong (3 Liang), jujube (1 jin), black bean (1 jin). Soak Huanyang jujube in 2 bowls of children's feces and dry the powder in the sun. Boil the jujube in a casserole until the water is enough. Take jujube meat and dry the powder in the sun. Then with the medicine and even, honey pill each weight two money, every morning and evening each take two pills, brown sugar water delivery service: or huanyangshen, jujube each equal, boil cream, each take a spoonful, twice a day.

② Treatment of unknown swelling toxin: huanyangshen, aogao external application.