Typhoid herb

Typhoid herb

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonyms] night morning glory, star swab grass (Lingnan medicine collection record), jisecao (Guangzhou flora), huihunxiang (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II), xiaoshanhu (Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), fake salted shrimp and zhicao (Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine).

[Jiyuan] is the whole plant of Compositae.

[plant morphology] night fragrant cattle

Annual herb, 20-80 cm high. Stem erect, weak, less branched, slightly hairy. Leaves alternate; petiolate; lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 2-6 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, apex obtuse or mucronate, margin shallowly toothed, base narrowly wedge-shaped, extending down to petiole, both sides sparsely hairy; leaves near branch end narrower and smaller. Capitulum about 7 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, arranged in an open corymb; involucral bracts arranged in series, acute, the outermost row shorter; all tubular flowers, bisexual, about 20, light purple red, corolla 2 times longer than bracts, apex 5-lobed. Achenes cylindrical, about 2 mm long, linear, hairy, corolla white, most. It blooms all year round.

Born on the open field. It is distributed in the south of China.

The root of this plant (typhoid grass root) is also used for medicine. See special article for details.

[collection] the whole grass was harvested in summer and autumn and dried in the sun.

The stem is about 15-60 cm long, 3-5 mm thick, green brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, light yellow hairs and hard texture. The leaves are shrunken or shed, lanceolate to ovate or obovate, crispy. The top of the stem has a head, the Corolla is yellowish brown, or bears achenes, which is cylindrical, grayish brown, with many crown hairs and white. Qi is weak. It is better to have more leaves and no impurity.

Produced in Guangdong and other places.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols and amino acids.

[pharmacological action] seeds can be used as anthelmintic; leaves have weak antibacterial effect, but have no effect on Plasmodium.

[nature and taste] Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "cool in nature, light in taste, bitter in taste, cool in nature. "

Functions and indications: heat clearing, dehumidification and detoxification. Treatment of fever, acute icteric hepatitis, damp heat diarrhea, sores swelling poison.

① "Lingnan caiyao Lu": "to treat exogenous fever, to eliminate damp heat. "

② Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "clearing heat and detoxifying, detumescence and detoxification, purulent discharge. Treatment of damp heat diarrhea, and treatment of breast sores, snakebite. "

③ "Clearing the liver, relieving fever, calming the nerves and calming the nerves" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. It can cure cold, fever, cough, acute jaundice hepatitis, neurasthenia, insomnia, nocturia in children, sore swelling and poison. "

④ Color atlas of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "treating sprains and falls. "

⑤ Guangzhou Air Force "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "treat dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping.