Fan seven

Fan seven

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Another name: Tiger seven.

[source] it is the root or the whole grass with roots of Cypripedium fan.

[plant morphology] Cypripedium fan

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is slender and creeping, and the nodes are clustered with fibrous roots. Stem simple, 20-40 cm high, villous, base with a few sheath like leaves. Leaves 2, stem tip, slightly paired, fan-shaped to fan-shaped, quadrangular, front edge wavy, up to 16 cm long, 22 cm wide, veins fan-shaped. The flower is large, single at the top of the pedicel; the pedicel is drawn out from the axils of the leaves, 10-15 cm long; the petals are open, yellowish green, the lip is extra large, saccate, with purple spots. Capsule beaked, ca. 5 cm, pilose. Seeds minute, numerous. The flowering period is May.

Born in the wild. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and South China.

[collection] collect in summer and autumn, wash, dry in the sun, or rinse with rice swill and stir fry with wine.

It is astringent, pungent, flat and poisonous.

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and detoxification, regulating qi and relieving pain, regulating menstruation and activating blood circulation, and stopping malaria. Treatment of skin pruritus, nameless swelling virus, vivax malaria, irregular menstruation, strain.

[taboo] hot wine and hot rice are forbidden for half a day after oral administration.

[selection] 1. Treatment of pruritus: Fan Qi Quan Cao Jian and water washing.

② Treatment unknown swelling poison: Fan seven whole grass mashed, with vinegar transfer applied to the affected area.

③ Treatment of vivax malaria: seven fans and five points. Powder, cold water one hour before malaria. (the following is Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)