Bobcat

Bobcat

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonyms] diediecao (questioning materia medica), Platycodon grandiflorum (Chinese plant Atlas), mousei, Rattus (Fujian folk herbal medicine), jiaojianwang (Luchuan materia medica), shanjiaojian, Tiansuan (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine records), jiaocao (Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine records), shandajianlan, feishegan, shewangxiu (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine records).

[source] it is the whole grass or rhizome of Liliaceae.

[plant morphology] Alpinia kaempferi

Perennial herbs, 1-2 m high. Rhizome transverse, surface dark brown, nodules obvious. Stem stiff; subcylindrite, upper part slightly flat. Leaves alternate, 2-row, linear lanceolate, 40 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, sparsely coarsely serrate; sheaths very long, part of them folded inward from midvein and connate. Panicle terminal, scattered, few and short branches; petiole about 1 cm long, slightly curved; bracts ovate, apex caudate acute; perianth bluish purple or green white, lobes 6, 2-whorled, oblong, 6-10 mm long, 2 mm wide; stamens 6, filaments. Anthers very thick, linear, dark brown, 2-lobed; ovary 3-locular, suborbicular, style linear, stigma inconspicuously 3-lobed. Berries ovoid, bluish purple, smooth; seeds black. The flowering period is from June to August. The fruit period is from July to September.

It grows in wild weeds. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[collection] the rhizomes can be harvested all year round, washed and dried.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it tastes sweet, astringent and slightly pungent, has cool nature and little poison. "

② Quanzhou materia medica: "pungent, warm, toxic. "

③ "There is great poison in Lingnan herbal medicine records. "

[function indications] it is used to treat scrofula, carbuncle, gangrene, tinea, and traumatic injury.

① "To get rid of the poison of neck rash" is one of the most important contents in the book "preparation of the nature of raw herbal medicine". "

② "Rhizome: external use for tinea treatment". "

③ Lu Chuan materia medica: "wine steaming for external use can cure traumatic injuries. "

④ Quanzhou materia medica: "whole herb: treating carbuncle and gangrene, nameless swelling and poison. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping. Don't take it orally.

[preparation] preparation of raw herbal medicine: "bobcat, if you don't take it, you can catch mice. Beat the juice, stir fry the fragrant rice, soak the juice in the rice and dry it in the sun. Rats will die if they eat it. "