Cat flower

Cat flower

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] honeybee jar (Guizhou folk medicine), honeybee flower, laijiangteng (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals), MaoMi flower (Guizhou herbal medicine), mitonghua, honey fruit, tielingan, xiaobaiye (Yunnan herbal medicine), yeshanghua (Kunming folk herbal medicine), wild forsythia (Yunnan herbal medicine selection).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] calamus microphylla

Evergreen semi creeping shrub with yellowish brown stellate hairs on new branches. The leaves are lanceolate, 3.5-11.5 cm long and 1-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base heart-shaped, entire, smooth on the top and covered with light brown hairs on the bottom. Flowers axillary, single or paired; bracteoles 2, linear lanceolate; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, 5-ribbed, ca. 1.5 cm long, covered with light brown hairs; corolla funnel-shaped, 2.5 cm long, dark purple brown, hairy, 2-lipped, lower lip flattened, shorter, 3-lobed, upper lip wider and longer, 2-lobed; stamens 4, 2-strong, shorter than corolla: filament lower flat; style linear, stigma simple One. Capsule ovoid, apically pointed, ca. 1.2 cm long; seeds small, with membranous elongated wings. The flowering period is from November to December.

It grows in the gap between rocks or grass on hillside on semi shady slope. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangsu and other places.

[nature and taste] 1. Guizhou folk medicine: "cool in nature, slightly bitter in taste. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and dampness, clear heat and stop bleeding. Treatment of rheumatism, edema, diarrhea, jaundice, hematemesis, palpitation, osteomyelitis.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "treat dysentery, eliminate edema, cough blood. "

② "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "it can be used to treat heart palpitation, fever and vomiting. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 4-8 yuan.

[formula selection] 1. Diarrhea: take the root of the honey jar in boiling water. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of tuberculosis, cough and hematemesis: one or two flowers in a jar of fresh bee candy, fried in water. (Guizhou folk medicine)

③ Treatment: cat flower, cinnabar, hawk claw wind, Gastrodia elata, sour jujube kernel, stewed meat service. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of rheumatism, a body swelling: honey jar, Acorus calamus, Acorus tatarinowii, Artemisia argyi. Equal, fry and wash. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of suppurative osteomyelitis: Honey bucket flower root one or two, a jin of wine, two to three times a day, 10 ml each time.

⑥ Treatment of endometritis, tetanus, rheumatism, Dieda: Honey barrel to spend five money to one or two, decoction.

⑦ Treatment of icteric hepatitis: Honey barrel flower one or two, brown sugar as a guide, water decoction. (5) Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)

⑧ Treatment of cold and fever: Honey barrel to spend one to three money, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)