Shepherd's purse flower

Shepherd's purse flower

(Lu Yan Ben Cao)

[synonym] Di Mi Hua (Guizhou folk medicine Collection).

[source] it is the inflorescence of Capsella bursa pastoris. For the plant morphology, please refer to "shepherd's purse".

"Wenwei, nontoxic". "

[function indications] for dysentery and metrorrhagia.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Yin Gan, Yan Mo, jujube soup, daily service two money, treatment of long dysentery. "

② In the textual research on the names and facts of plants: "it can eliminate the milk accumulation of children; burning ash can cure red and white dysentery. "

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

[selection] to treat metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia: one or two fresh shepherd's purse flowers, fried in water; or two Salvia miltiorrhiza, four angelica, fried in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)