Three side knife

Three side knife

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[alias] Jinsi Sanqi, maozhuqi, Kaihoujian and Chaqi.

[source] it is the rhizome of Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] Scarab

Perennial herbs. Rhizome transverse, with many fibrous roots. Stem erect, hollow, longitudinally furrowed, 25-110 cm high, upper part densely gray pubescent. Leaves 1-2, subbasal, 1-3-compound, long petiole; leaflets petiolate, ovate heart-shaped, central leaflet 5-20 cm long, 4-18 cm wide, 7-9 palmately lobed, margin serrate; lateral leaflets smaller. Spikes slender, 10-25 cm long, single or branched; flowers small, white, 4 mm in diameter, nearly sessile; sepals 4-5; stamens 8-numerous; carpels 1-2, glabrous. The pod is about 10 mm long, with many light brown seeds. The flowering period is from July to August.

It grows near or under the mountain forest. It is distributed in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guizhou, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, etc.

[collection] collect in autumn, wash and dry.

[herbal medicine] the dry rhizome is irregular long block shape, and most of them are divided into nodules, 8-20 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. The surface is dark brown or dark brown, densely covered with punctate fibrous root marks, with many cylindrical stem bases. It is light in weight, grayish white in cross section, with brown radiating strips (xylem).

Sichuan, Zhejiang and other places.

This product is used as Cimicifuga in Sichuan, and the commodity is called "Nanchuan Cimicifuga". See "Cimicifuga" section.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it has sweet and bitter taste, cold nature and little poison. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. It is used to treat dry throat pain, falls, strain, rheumatism, lumbocrural pain and furuncle.

① "Removing blood stasis and swelling, reducing blood pressure. "

② Shaanxi herbal medicine: "treating rheumatism and pain. "

③ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and regulating qi, relieving pain. Treatment of throat dry pain, strain, injury. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-2 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. For the treatment of dry throat pain: three side knife for one yuan. Chew it in your mouth and swallow it gradually. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of internal injury: fresh Panax notoginseng (sliced) two to three Liang, add sugar stew juice service. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

3. For the treatment of injuries, waist and leg pain: three face knives, four tiles two, two, 37, seven, each 73, and baijiu. Soak it into liquor and take one wine cup every morning and evening. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of furuncle poison: fresh silk Panax notoginseng with salt mashed apply the affected area. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)