Female loucai

Female loucai

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] pot flower, folium opposite, folium opposite ("Guizhou herbal medicine").

[source] it is the whole plant of Gynostemma violaceum.

[plant morphology] nuloucai

Annual or biennial herbs, 20-70 cm high, densely pubescent throughout the plant. Stem erect, base much branched. Leaves opposite; leaf blade strip lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, entire, densely pubescent; upper leaves sessile, lower leaves petiolate. Cyme corymbose, 2-3 divergent, 2 flowers on each branch; bract strip; calyx elliptic, outside densely pubescent, with 10 veins, 5-lobed at the top; petal 5, obovate, 2-lobed at the top, narrow claw at the base, 2 scales at the throat; stamen 10, filaments slender; style 3. Capsule elliptic, as long as calyx. Seeds numerous, small, dark brown, with obtuse tubercles.

It's a hillside meadow. It is distributed in most areas of China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

It's hard, it's smooth.

① Guizhou herbal medicine: "pungent, slightly warm. "

② "Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual": "bitter, sweet, flat. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, strengthening spleen and promoting water circulation. Treatment of irregular menstruation, milk less, infantile malnutrition, floating.

① Guizhou herbal medicine: "activating blood circulation, regulating menstruation, dispersing accumulation, strengthening spleen, detoxifying. Treatment of irregular menstruation, infantile malnutrition, carbuncle swelling. "

② "Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual": "milk, diuresis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: tamping.

[selection] ① treatment of irregular menstruation (after wrong): five keys for cupping, three money for xiaoxueteng. Simmer wine and warm clothes, twice a day. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

② Treatment of maternal milk less: female loucai, Astragalus each five money, angelica three money. (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

③ Treatment of body deficiency and edema: female loucai, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos skin each five money. Take it in water. (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

④ Treatment of carbuncle: pot flower, cattle felt appropriate amount. Tamp down the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine)