Musk

Musk

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonym] wuliangcao (Lingnan medicine collection record), spicy thistle and spicy chicken (Luchuan materia medica), pancake grass (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine), liangcao, wulangcao and lanhuacao (Guangzhou army Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine).

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

[plant morphology] Moschus tomentosa

Annual herbs. Stem erect, stout, 30-60 cm high, covered with mucinous sparse hairs. Leaves opposite, with short stalks, ovate, 1.5-5 cm long, apex obtuse, base rounded or broad wedge-shaped, margin obtuse serrate, both sides fluffy. Flowers purple blue, solitary in upper leaf axils or top, forming an open raceme; petiole short, usually with 2 bracteoles; sepals 5, upper 4 linear, bottom 1 lanceolate, larger, flowering time about 8 mm, fruiting time about 12 mm; corolla 2-2.5 cm long, upper lip erect, entire or concave, lower lip extended, 3-lobed; stamens 4, enclosed, anther chamber separated, upper 1 pair Anther locules are small and glandular in the following pair of anthers; style apex is enlarged and wing shaped below stigma. Capsule oblong conic, ca. 8 mm long. The flowering period is July.

Born in the mountains and grass. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry in the sun.

The length of the dried whole herb is 20-30 cm. The roots remain. The stem is about 2-4 mm thick, branched, dark brown in appearance, with shallow longitudinal wrinkle, long and sparse hair, hard and easy to break, hollow, slightly fibrous. Leaves extremely shrunken, dark brown above, light brown below, pilose, densely with concave glandular dots. The flowers are mostly fruiting, the calyx is persistent, tea brown, 5-lobed, and one of the lobes grows significantly. Capsule dark brown to yellowish brown. The aroma is strong, and the taste is slightly spicy and cool. Aromatic and impurity free is preferred.

Produced in Guangdong.

[chemical constituents] the whole herb contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, triterpenes, amino acids and volatile oil.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Lingnan caiyao Lu: "the taste is pungent. "

② "Nanning medicine annals": "it's pungent but slightly astringent. "

③ Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "bitter and pungent in taste, warm in nature. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, removing swelling and toxin, promoting Qi, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It can treat rheumatism, bone pain, qi stagnation, abdominal pain, sores, boils, swelling, skin eczema, pruritus and traumatic injury.

① "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "dispel wind and disinfect. "

② "Lingnan caiyao Lu" says: "it can reduce swelling, relieve pain, disperse sores and ulcers. "It's used to treat Qi pain. "

③ "Nanning medicine annals": "stop bleeding, relieve pain, disperse blood stasis and detumescence. It is used to treat falls, knife wounds, rheumatic sores and ulcers. "

④ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "treatment of mountain haze miasma, acclimatization, postpartum liver wind thirst, and treatment of skin pruritus. "

⑤ "Dispelling wind and dampness, reducing swelling and pain" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. It can cure poliomyelitis, rheumatism, bone pain, wind cold, abdominal pain, snakebite, traumatic injury, sores and boils. "

⑥ "Guangdong Chinese herbal medicine": "treatment of skin eczema, wasp sting. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[selection] 1. Asthma treatment: Moschus musk leaves are cut into shreds and smoked with Flos Datura cigarettes. (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II)

② Treatment of rat bite: five cool grass, fried and washed, or rammed, and then with Melia azedarach Sui each two, fried water to drink, another sugar cane fried and washed. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)