Asarum sibiricum

Asarum sibiricum

(Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album")

[synonym] panshancao, Shanshu (Guangxi medical plant directory), tuxixin (Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album").

[source] it is the whole plant of Asarum sieboldii in Aristolochiaceae.

[plant morphology] Asarum sieboldii

Perennial herb with special pungent aroma. The rhizome is short with dense nodes and many fibrous roots. Leaves 2-3, triangular heart-shaped, fleshy, with white or light green patches, apex acuminate, base deeply concave as ear. Flowers solitary, petiole very short, close to the ground, light red; calyx campanulate, 3-lobed, radially symmetric, persistent; stamens 12, arranged in 2 rings, filaments short. Ovary 6. Capsule.

It grows in the valley, by the stream and under the forest. It is distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hubei, Xinjiang and Northeast China.

[collection] from April to October.

[nature and taste] Hubei "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album": "pungent, warm, toxic. "

[function indications] sweating, expectorant, analgesic, detumescence. It is used to treat cold, headache, cough, asthma, phlegm, toothache, sore mouth and tongue, traumatic injury.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "dispelling wind, sweating, promoting Qi, detumescence, expectorant and hemostasis. Treatment of cold, headache, toothache, sore mouth and tongue, contusion, snake injury. "

② "Guangxi botanical catalogue": "sweating, expectorant, upper pain. Treat cold, toothache, cough, asthma and phlegm. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 minutes. External use: tamping, grinding, sprinkling or blowing.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind cold headache: three to five points of Herba asari. Take it in water.

② Treatment of heatstroke: 7 pieces of fresh Asarum leaves, mashed and washed with boiling water; or root grind powder, blow into the nose.

③ Treatment of mouth and tongue sores: soil asarum, Coptis each equal, research fine powder scattered on the affected area.

④ Treatment of traumatic injury: fresh soil asarum, mashed and applied to the affected area. (selected out Hubei's "Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album")