Rubia cordifolia

Chinese Name: Rubia cordifolia

Class: root

India madderroot

[alias]: four wheeled grass, Labrador, small blood circulation, roller vine.

[source]: it is the root and rhizome of Rubia cordifolia L.

[harvesting]: digging in spring and autumn, removing sediment and drying in the sun.

[nature and taste]: the rhizome is irregular nodular, with stem base on the upper side and clumps of roots of different thickness on the lower side. The root is cylindrical, wavy curved, 10-25cm long, 0.2-1cm in diameter, reddish brown or dark brown on the surface, with fine longitudinal lines and a few fine root marks. It is brittle, with flat section, purplish red skin and light yellowish red wood. Qi is weak. It tastes slightly bitter. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste.

[plant morphology]: perennial climbing herb. Stem tetragonal, some along the edge with barbs. The leaves are 4-leaf whorls, one pair of which is larger and long petiolate, ovate or ovate lanceolate, 2.5-6cm long or longer, 1-3cm wide or wider; the leaf margin and dorsal vein are provided with small barbs. Cymes terminal or axillary; flowers small, calyx teeth inconspicuous, corolla green or white, 5-lobed, ciliate. Fruit fleshy, small, purple black when ripe. The flowering and fruiting period is from September to October.

[growing place]: it grows in the grass beside the hillside rock or ditch. The main products are Anwei, Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong.

[chemical composition]: the root contains a variety of hydroxyanthraquinone derivatives, such as alizarin, purpuro xanthin, purpurin, pseudo purpurin, mujistin, Rubia, Alizarinic acid glycosides I and II were isolated and their aglycones were alizarinic acid.

Bitter and cold. Return to the liver meridian.

Function indications: cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and dredging meridians. It is used for hematemesis, bleeding, bleeding from metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, meridian obstruction, arthralgia and tumefaction. Cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis: This product can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis. It is used for bleeding due to heat syndrome, abdominal pain due to amenorrhea and traumatic injury. With sepia bone, the hemostatic power is stronger.

[dosage of traditional Chinese medicine]: 3-9g. It can be used for promoting blood circulation and dredging meridians, for hemostasis and for frying charcoal.

[indications]

1. Vomit blood. Mash one or two sticks into powder. Two yuan per serving, fried in water, cold, water adjusted at the end of two yuan service can also be.

2. Women have amenorrhea. Take a couple of siegans and fry them in wine.

3. Cup poison (hematemesis, blood, such as pig liver) with Qiancao root, coir lotus leaf each three parts, add four liters of water, boil into two liters.

4. Anal prolapse. Use a handful of qiangen and pomegranate peel, add a bowl of wine, fry until 70%, take it warm.