Alpinia officinalis

Alpinia officinalis

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonym] meicao (herbal Classic Collection), jianganfeng (herbal formula), jiujianglian (Emao medicinal plant), Epimedium zingiberensis (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), jiulongpan (Guiyang folk medicine).

[source] rhizomes or whole grass of Zingiberaceae and Alpinia officinale.

[plant morphology] and Alpinia officinalis

Herbaceous perennial, 40-60 cm high. Rhizome divergent. The leaves are oblong or broadly lanceolate, 20-40 cm long and 5-7 cm wide, apex pointed, base cuneate, entire, smooth and glabrous above and densely hairy below. Inflorescence racemose, densely rusty, 10-15 cm long; flowers white with red stripes, about 25 mm long; calyx cylindric, 1 cm long, 4 mm in diameter, apex 3-lobed; corolla oblong, apex 3-lobed, both calyx and corolla sericeous; labellum ovate, wavy notched, orange red; stamen 1; style 1, beyond connective, ovary inferior. Fruit broad elliptic, about 1 cm in diameter, red, surface covered with fine hairs; seeds numerous. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows on the edge of mountain and Ravine or under Forest Wetland. Distribution in Hubei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan and other places.

The flowers and seeds of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in March to April after 2-3 years of planting, they were collected, cleaned and dried.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Ben Cao Shi Yi: "Xin, Wen. "

② "Compendium": "pungent, hot, non-toxic. "

[function indications] warming, dispersing cold, dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation. It is used to treat cold abdominal pain, rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, fatigue, hematemesis, blood stasis and irregular menstruation.

① Tao Hongjing: "cold pain in the abdomen, cooking is very effective. "

② "To get rid of the evil spirit, to be warm.". In the treatment of cholera, the heart and abdomen cold pain, such as ginger function. "

③ "Cao Mu Bian Fang" says: "it can remove great poison, remove blood stasis, and penetrate muscles and bones. For rheumatism, numbness of limbs, decoction; for apoplexy, decoction. "

④ "E Mao Yao Zhi": treating unknown swelling poison. "

⑤ Guiyang folk herbs: "roots and leaves: warming lung, dispersing cold, relieving cough. "

⑥ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "rhizome: treatment of strain, hematemesis, blood stasis, irregular menstruation. "

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

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of labor injury and hematemesis: jiujianglian (soaking in children's stool for seven days, taking it out for drying in the shade), a mouthful of blood and mountain sorghum. Half a catty of wine, one or two for each.

② Treatment of weak cough: Nineteen ginger with three money, goose intestines three money. Stewed meat. Two or nine ginger powder one or two, walnut kernel one or two. Add two liang of honey, mix well, steam hot, make longan big ball, contain chemical swallow.

③ To cure chronic cough: Jiujiang liangen (soaked in lime for one day, washed with rice washing water and clear water, steamed and dried in the sun), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae dahuricae) and Zhuifeng umbrella (Radix Angelicae dahuricae). One jin of wine, one or two for each. (Guiyang folk herbs was selected)