Paicaoxiang

Paicaoxiang

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] paixiang, xiangpaicao, vanilla (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), Lysimachia pubescens (Guangxi plant list).

[source] it is the whole herb of Primulaceae herb.

[plant morphology] vanilla gracilis

Annual herb with fragrance. The lower part of the stem creeps on the ground, with fibrous roots and erect branches on the nodes, up to 50 cm in height; the stem is slender, tetragonal or pentagonal, with narrow wings and glabrous edges. Leaf blade ovate or ovate lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 7-17 mm wide, apex acuminate, entire, base cuneate, 4-5 pinnate veins on each side, pale green, papery; petiole 2-6 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicel very thin, 2-3 cm long; flowers yellow, about 1 cm in diameter; calyx about 3 mm long, lower connate, 5 long teeth, inner and edge with red glands densely; corolla 5-lobed, about 6 mm long; stamen 5, opposite corolla lobes, attached to corolla base, filaments very short, about 1 mm long, pollen sac about 4 mm long; pistil 1, ovary 1-locular, subglobose , 1 mm in diam., style ca. 5 mm. Capsule globose, 2 mm in diam. Seeds numerous, small, polygonal. The flowering period is June. The fruit ripens at the end of autumn.

It likes to grow in the grass on the slope of mountains, at the edge of dense forest and under the forest. It is distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Fujian.

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

[nature and taste] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "sweet in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

[function indications] for cold, cough, asthma, rheumatic pain, irregular menstruation.

① Chinese medicine Zhi: "treating weakness. "

② "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "dispel wind and dampness, regulate qi, stop Qitong, awaken the brain, remove trouble, apply freckles. "

③ "List of Guangxi plants": "Yiqi Buxu, Qufeng Huoxue. Treat weakness, tracheitis, asthma, irregular menstruation, cold and cough. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.

[clinical application] treatment of edema

Take 1 liang of paicao Xianggen (remove branches) and add 1200 ml of water to fry it to 300 ml. Take 150 ml twice a day (for children). 43 cases were observed. The urine volume increased rapidly in 1-2 days after taking the medicine, and the general edema disappeared in 4-5 days. However, etiological treatment and symptomatic treatment are still needed for primary diseases.