Mother in law

Mother in law

(save famine materia medica)

[synonyms] Cynanchum songaricum (baicaojing), Herba shuangzhucao (compendium), Herba shuangtongchui and Herba shuangshencao (collection of commonly used folk herbs), Herba ovum (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine), and Herba shibugui (records of Hunan medicine).

[source] it is the whole herb of Veronica, a Scrophulariaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Veronica

Herbs annual or perennial, pubescent. Stem from the base part of the branches into clusters, the lower part of Yan Fu ground, oblique, 5-20 cm high. Leaves ovate or suborbicular, 6-10 mm in length and width, margin crenate, base rounded, green. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, 1 cm in diameter; pedicels as long as bracts or slightly shorter; bracts leaflike; calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate, 3-6 mm long; corolla reddish purple, base combined; stamens 2; pistils composed of 2 carpels, ovary superior, 2-locular. Capsule globose, apex retuse, with short soft hairs. Seeds oblong or ovate. The flowering period is from March to April.

Most of them are on the roadside, at the foot of the wall, on the grass or in the garden. It is distributed in most areas of China.

[collection] collected from March to April, dried or fresh.

[chemical composition] it contains 0.4% glyceryl alcohol.

Sweet and cool.

① "Save famine Materia Medica": "sweet taste. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, light in taste and non-toxic. "

Indications: hernia, low back pain and leucorrhea.

① "Herbal mirror": "treatment of hernia, low back pain. "

② "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "strengthening kidney, stopping hematemesis, treating children's bladder hernia. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treating women's leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang (fresh 2-3 Liang); or mashed juice drink.

[selection] 1. Hernia: 22 of the fresh eggs of dog, and the juice, Baijiu and kimono. When they are hungry, they are drunk and drunk. They are warm and sleep. If you use dry, Baijiu one or two, fried liquor, plus purple sunflower five money with fried better. (Danliao trial prescription)

② Treatment of bladder hernia leucorrhea: egg grass, night close each one to two, with two Taomi decoction. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of testicular swelling: mother-in-law Na, Huang Du, decoction. (Hunan medical records)