Panax notoginseng

White back

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Dafei Niu (flora of Guangzhou), Tu, Bai zai cai Yao, San Xue Jiang (flora of Guangxi medicine), Bai bang, di Gunzi, Da Jiujia, Bai Bu Huanyang, Shi Sanqi, Shu Sanqi (Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine), Da LVYE, Jiegudan (Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the root and rhizome of Compositae.

[plant morphology] baizicai, also known as chicken dish.

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. The rhizome is massive. Stems purplish red, pubescent. The leaves are oblong obovate, 9-15 cm long and 8 cm wide, apex obtuse or short pointed, base cuneate, sometimes with two ears, leaf margin irregularly notched and serrated, with grayish white short hairs, green on top, bald or sparsely covered with grayish white short hairs, more on main veins, light green or purplish red below, prominent main veins, sparsely short hairs on top, black when reticulate veins are dry Stipe short or absent. The flower stems are sparsely short hairy. Capitate inflorescence terminal, several, diameter 1-1.5cm; involucre 2-whorled, margin lanceolate, outer whorl short, sparse, inner whorl imbricate, twice longer than outer whorl, sparsely covered with gray white short hairs; flowers all tubular, golden yellow; stamens 5, anthers united, concealed, inserted in 1 / 2 of corolla tube; pistil style slender, exposed, stigma 2-lobed. Achenes dark brown at maturity, with lines and white corolla. The flowering period is from spring to early winter.

I like to live on the wet and shady ground. It is distributed from Taiwan to South China. Southwest.

The stems and leaves of this plant (the stems and leaves of Panax notoginseng) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] collect in autumn and winter, wash and dry.

[herbal medicine] rhizome is fat and fleshy, 2-3cm in diameter, grayish yellow when fresh, many lateral stem buds, short cone-shaped, and some links can be seen. The fracture surface is gray white.

Produced in Guangxi and other places.

Sweet and cool.

① "The taste is sweet and the nature is cool. "

② "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "mild in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "salty, pungent, cold, toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. Treatment of bronchitis, tuberculosis, metrorrhagia, carbuncle, scald. The injury is imitative, and the wound is bleeding.

① "Guangxi medicine Zhi Tu Zhi": "boil soup for internal use, cool blood and detoxify; smash external application, fall injury, detumescence and stasis; also used to apply heat carbuncle, pain and swelling. After nine steaming and ten sun drying, soaking in wine or decocting soup, taking blood tonic. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and inflammation, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. Treatment of fracture, traumatic bleeding, bronchitis, tuberculosis, metrorrhagia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. 2 ~ 3 money; or soak wine. External use: tamping or grinding.

[selected formula] 1. For the treatment of ulcers and carbuncles, Xiaozhong and Sandu: native, equal. Mash and apply. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

② Treatment of scald, knife injury: big green leaf root powder, sugar into paste, package the affected area. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

③ Treatment of traumatic injuries: native land, equal parts. Mash, stir fry with good wine. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)