Stephania fortunei

Stephania fortunei

(notes on materia medica)

[synonym] jinxiandiao tortoise, fenfangji (Hangzhou medicinal plant records), rattan, wild peach grass, firecracker Xiao (Hunan medicinal records), jinxiandiao frog, Chaotian ointment, cymbal grass, sweet potato, wild potato vine (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine), jinpenhanyao, mountain turtle (Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root, stem and leaf of Stephania stem.

[plant morphology] Stephania fortunei

Liana woody, 4-5 m long, glabrous. The tuber is stout. Branchlets with fine longitudinal stripes. Leaves herbaceous or nearly papery, alternate, broadly ovate or ovate, 4-8 cm long and 3-7.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, base rounded, sub truncate or microcordate, entire, below usually pink white, palmate veins 7-9; petioles peltate, 6-8 cm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; inflorescence umbelliform to cymose, axillary; total pedicel 2.5-4 cm long, branches 4-8; flowers small, light green, pedunculate; male sepals 6-8, ovate or obovate; flower differentiation 3-5; stamen filaments fused into columnar; female sepals 3-5; petals and sepals the same number; no staminodes; style 3-6-lobed, curved. Drupe subglobose, ca. 6 mm in diam., red.

Born on hillsides, streams or roadsides. It is distributed in East China, central China, Southwest China and South China.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

Bitter, cold.

① "Hunan medicine records": "bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "bitter, cool. "

⑧ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "bitter, cold, small poison. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, dispelling wind and dampness. Treat malaria, dysentery, rheumatism, arthralgia, edema, drenching, sore throat, carbuncle and furuncle.

① "Materia medica notes:" the main cholera in the evil, the nature of virtual labor, malaria, phlegm cough adverse, swollen gangrene, dog poison, leprosy, miscellaneous rash know the main. "

② "Xiaozhong Zhitong" in Hunan medicine records. "

③ Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "dispelling wind and activating collaterals, clearing heat and detoxification, astringency and hemostasis. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, hemiplegia, multiple furuncle, dysentery, snakebite, uterine prolapse, hemoptysis. "

④ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "diuretic, pain, Qufeng. Treatment of heart and stomach pain, abdominal swelling, edema, wind swelling, carbuncle, sore. "

⑤ "Clearing dampness and heat in the lower part and treating dampness sores in the lower part" in Jiangxi herbal medicine manual. "

⑥ Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat, purging fire, removing dampness and detumescence. Treatment of sore throat, damp heat and turbid. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-4 yuan; or grind powder. External use: tamping or grinding juice with pharynx.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of malaria: five to one or two yuan from the root of qianjinteng. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

② Cure dysentery: qianjintenggen Wuqian, decoction. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ For rheumatic hemiplegia, qiangen decoction was used for five days. Then use one or two thousand golden vine roots, one jin of wine, soak for seven days, and take a small cup every night before going to bed for ten days. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

④ Treatment of Sha gas abdominal pain: qianjinteng root, scrape off the green skin, dry in the sun, half fried to yellow, the other half used for life, research end, each take one money, boiled water delivery service. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑤ Treatment of abdominal pain: qianjintenggen five money to one or two, decoction. (Hunan medical records)

⑥ Treatment of dampness, heat and turbidity: fresh roots of Stephania, one or two, fried in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of beriberi swelling: qianjintenggen Wuqian, sanbaicaohen Wuqian, Wujiapi Wuqian, decoction. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑧ Treatment of sore throat: Stephania fresh root five money to one or two, decoction. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑨ Treatment of swelling and toxin: the leaves of Stephania wilfordii are mashed and applied to the affected area. (Hunan medical records)

⑩ Treatment of carbuncle swelling furuncle poison: thousand gold mushroom root grind fine powder, each time one to two money, boiled water delivery service. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

(11) treatment of multiple furuncle: Stephania whole grass one or two, or add angelica, wild Artemisia each five money, decoction.

(12) treatment of snakebite: three to five points of dried root of Stephania fortunei, grind powder, take boiled water, take fresh root and mash it for external application.

Treatment of uterine prolapse: qianjinteng root decoction fumigation, once a day. In addition, take two pairs of Rosa laevigata root and fry them in water. (11) Zhejiang folk herbal medicine is listed below.)