Santai safflower

Santai safflower

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[alias] daluosan, dachangshan, shanlitong (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), Sanbaibang, shanpipa (Guizhou herbal medicine), huoma, santaihua (Yunnan herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass of three pairs of nodes of Verbenaceae.

[plant morphology] three pairs of nodes

Evergreen shrub, 2-4m high. The root is grayish brown. There are white lenticels on the surface of stem, and nodes are swollen. Leaf blade oblanceolate or elliptic, 16-25 cm long, 7-10 cm wide, apex long pointed, base tapering, decurrent, margin serrate, upper scattered pubescent, lower veins densely pubescent. Panicle terminal, peduncle densely covered with purple tomentose; bracts large, purplish red; calyx campanulate, apex truncate, persistent when bearing fruit; corolla simple usually slender, cylindric, margin spreading, with nearly uniform or irregular 5-lobes; stamens 4, inserted on corolla tube, protruding from corolla tube; style protruding, apex 2-lobed. The fruit is a berry shaped drupe.

It grows in mountains and forests. Distributed in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

The three pairs of nodes of its variety are also used as medicine. The main characteristics are long obovate leaves, base embracing stem.

[collection] all year round.

[pharmacology] the water extract could block the contraction of ileum and trachea of guinea pigs by histamine, but not acetylcholine and barium chloride. Intravenous injection of histamine partially blocked the blood pressure response in dogs, but did not block the blood pressure changes induced by acetylcholine and epinephrine. The ethanol and chloroform extracts had no such blocking effect, and the ethanol precipitate of cold water extract had the strongest effect.

Bitter, pungent and cool.

① Guizhou herbal medicine: "Xin Gan, Wen. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, pungent, cold, poisonous. "

③ Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, cool. "

Functions and indications: bone grafting, pain relief and malaria removal. Treatment of fractures, injuries, rheumatism, pain, malaria.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "refuting bones, killing insects, strengthening stomach, clearing heart fire, strengthening muscles and bones. It can cure malaria, dysentery, headache, ophthalmitis and contusion. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "invigorating spleen and removing dampness, tonifying deficiency and benefiting damage. Treatment of weakness, edema and strain. "

③ Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "Jiegu Zhitong, Qingre Jiedu. Treatment of fractures, injuries, rheumatism, pain, unknown swelling poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine, take at the end of research. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat malaria: one or two roots or leaves of Carthamus tinctorius, a little pepper and a little fruit. The decoction was taken within 1 hour before the onset of malaria. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

② Suitable amount of safflower water for treatment of bedsore. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)