Earthworm weed

Earthworm weed

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonym] baitoucai, yemingcao (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), Cinnamomum cassia, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), fisheye grass, Poria Cocos (Guangxi plant list).

[source] it is the whole grass or leaf of Piper nigrum.

[plant morphology] Piper kaempferi

Annual herb, 30-50 cm high. Stems erect, pilose or glabrous, branches and stems angular. Leaves alternate, petiolate; leaves membranous, divided or undivided, apical lobes broadly ovate, coarsely serrate. Inflorescence, small, subglobose, 3-5 mm in diameter, arranged in terminal panicles; involucre broadly elliptic; bracts 2-row, margin membranous; receptacle bare; flowers small, white, tubular, peripheral female, multiseriate, fully developed, central bisexual, fully developed. Achenes obovate, flat, glabrous or subglabrous. The flowering period is from late summer to early winter.

Born in the wilderness. It is distributed in the southeast of China.

[nature and taste] Fujian folk herbal medicine: "bitter, pungent, flat. "

[function indications] detumescence, detoxification, diuresis. It is used to treat children's external genitalia swelling, poisoning, laryngitis, contusion and sprain.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "detumescence and detoxification, heat clearing and diuresis. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treat laryngitis, weakness after disease. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat earthworm gangrene (swelling of children's external genitalia), it is unfavorable to urinate: fresh earthworm gangrene grass and winter honey are mashed and applied. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of toxic swelling and pain: fresh earthworm grass and rice porridge, add a little salt, mash and apply, change twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treatment sprain swelling and pain: dry Poria cocos research powder, each time two money, wine delivery service; another with fresh Poria cocos mash, adjust some sprinkle, apply the wound. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of snakebite: Smash fresh Poria cocos and apply it to the injured area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)