Ox tongue

Ox tongue

(collection of common folk herbs)

[synonyms] Sonchus Sonchus, Ixeris Sonchus, Ixeris Sonchus, Ixeris Sonchus, and niushepian.

[source] it is the whole plant of Compositae.

[plant morphology] Vallisneria stolonifera

Herbs perennial, milky, stoloniferous. The aerial stem is erect, 30-80 cm high. The leaves are alternate, oblong lanceolate, 10-20 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, with blunt rounded apex, sparse notches or triangular lobes, small sharp teeth on the margin, and gradually narrowed into stalks at the base; the stem leaves are sessile, and the base is auricular. The inflorescence is terminal, arranged in corymb or panicle, 2-4cm in diameter, with glandular hairs on peduncle and involucre; involucre is bell shaped, with several layers of bracts, the innermost bract is long and thin, the edge is membranous, lanceolate, the apex is obtuse, and the outermost bract is short; the flowers are yellow, all tongue shaped; the stamens are 5, the anthers are connected at the base, and the tail is acuminate; the pistil is composed of 2 carpels, the ovary is inferior, and the flowers are small Column slender, stigma 2-lobed. Achene long elliptic, narrow margin, with several longitudinal lines, slightly rough; corolla white, soft. The flowering period is from late autumn to early summer of the next year.

Born on hillside, roadside and field. Most of them are distributed in China.

[collection] from March to April. Fresh or sun dried.

Bitter, cold.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "cold in nature, bitter and astringent in taste, non-toxic. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For appendicitis, dysentery, hemorrhoids, spermatorrhea, opacification, mastitis, sores, boils, poison, fire injury.

① "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "treatment of turbidity, spermatorrhea, hemorrhoids. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "detoxify and remove heat. It is used to treat fire injury and unknown poison. "

③ "Treating appendicitis, dysentery, mastitis and furuncle" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou air force. "

Usage: Decoction and dosage: 2 ～ 5. External use: tamping or juice rubbing.

[selection] ① for intestinal carbuncle: four liang of Ixeris sonchifolia, one or two of kuyangteng, one or two of liquorice, two or two of yinhuateng. Take it in water. (Kuangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of dysentery: two liang of Ixeris sonchifolia, two liang of Fengwei grass, one or two of maple leaves, one or two of ancient yangteng. Take it with water and sugar. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of mastitis: five yuan per Sonchus Sonchus. Take it in water, or mash it and apply it to the affected area. (Hunan medical records) two mountain Ixeris, leigonggen each amount, add a little lees, a total of mash, apply the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of acne: the stem and leaf of Sonchus Sonchus juice rub on the affected area. (Hunan medical records)