Maoyao

Maoyao

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonyms] red silk thread, blood jianchou (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), yekucai, yehuamaolajiao (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Solanaceae.

[plant morphology] Solanum decacalyx

Herbs annual or biennial. Stem erect, branched, 60-100 cm high, base lignified, all densely pilose, with young branches as the most. Leaf blade ovate, 5-10 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base protruding to stalk, entire, both sides sparsely pilose. Flowers single 1 or 2-6, gathered in leaf axils, 4-8 mm long, somewhat recurved, hairy; calyx short, broad campanulate, 10 linear cleft teeth, hairy; corolla white, about 8 mm in diameter, 5-lobed to middle; stamens 5, anthers apically lobed; ovary 2-locular. Berry globose, 6-8 mm in diam., red, smooth, glabrous. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

Born in the wilderness. Distributed in Guangdong, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest after autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "it is cool in nature, light in taste and non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] ① textual research on the names and facts of plants: "tamping on red swelling. "

② Guizhou folk medicine: "clearing away heat, detoxifying, relieving cough, tonifying deficiency. "

[selection] ① Zhihuo: fresh maoyao leaves, beat down and apply to the affected area. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Cure rabies bite: fresh ten calyx eggplant half Jin. Chop, fry until yellow, add 1.5 catty of wine and boil until the adults finish taking as much alcohol as possible. Wipe the residue around the wound (do not wipe the wound). (color atlas of common Chinese herbal medicines)