Zizania latifolia

Zizania latifolia

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[synonym] tiger head orchid (Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine selection), Chlorophytum (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), and hard leaf orchid (Guangxi medicine plant list).

[source] it is the stem and leaf of Chlorophytum rigidum.

[plant morphology] Chlorophytum rigidum

Epiphytic herbs. Stem fleshy, stout and short, oblate, with many grooves, yellow green. Leaf saccate, thick and tough, narrowly linear, 30-60 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, apex obtuse and unequal 2 broad cracks, leaf veins obvious, there are obvious nodes between leaf and leaf sheath. The raceme is extracted from the rhizome, 30-40 cm long, with white or dark purple brown flowers. Sepals and petals linear oblong; labellum anterior broad oblong or suborbicular, with 2 thickly curved lamellae. Capsule long elliptic, yellow. The seeds are powdery. It blooms in summer.

Often attached to trees and rocks, or grown on walls. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong and other places.

The fruit of this plant (Zizania latifolia fruit) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains flavonoid glycosides and amino acids.

[nature and taste] selection of Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan Simao: "sweet, light, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat and moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. Treatment of tuberculosis, pneumonia, trachea, bronchitis, pharyngitis, irregular menstruation, fracture, tendon injury, traumatic bleeding.

① "Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine selection": "relieving cough and resolving phlegm, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence, hemostasis and anti inflammation. Treatment of tuberculosis, pneumonia, trachea, bronchitis, asthma, fracture, tendon injury. "

② "Moistening the lung, relieving cough, regulating menstruation, and stopping bleeding" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou air force. Treatment of tuberculosis, hematemesis, pharyngitis, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, traumatic bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] treatment of tuberculosis: water decoction of Zizania latifolia, Pholidota chinensis and Bletilla striata, or one or two boiled porridge with glutinous rice. (selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[selected formula] for cystitis: Dendrocalamus latiflorus, coix seed and Houttuynia cordata. Take it in water.