Water clove

Water clove

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Polygonum Dingzi, red cowpea, trumpet grass (Chinese medicinal plant records), water wax gourd (Fujian folk herbal medicine), water JuZai, water jute (Minnan folk herbal medicine), Salix (Sichuan Chinese herbal medicine records), Polygonum multiflorum, kenaf grass (Hunan medicinal records), Salicornia bigelovii (Guizhou medicinal plant investigation), water oil hemp, mountain mouse melon (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Polygonum syringae.

[plant morphology] Polygonum viviparum

Annual herbs. Fibrous roots are numerous. When the seedlings lie flat on the ground, or recline, after pulling stem upright, 20-50 cm long. The stem is angular, multi branched, with square branches. In autumn, the stems and leaves turn purplish red, all smooth and glabrous. Leaf blade lanceolate, 4-7.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, apex acuminate, entire, base narrower, petiole less than half of leaf. Flowers axillary, usually 1-2, sessile; calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm long, outside hairy, persistent; petals as many as calyx lobes, elliptic, ca. 3 mm long, apex obtuse, base narrow, claw like, caducous; stamens 4-5; ovary inferior, outer surface densely hairy, 4-locular, style short, stigma single, capitate. Capsule linear square, erect or slightly curved, both ends cut, 15-20 mm long, mature into purple; seeds small, smooth, brown yellow. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows near the water. Distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] in autumn.

Bitter and cool.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "Gan, Ping. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, bitter and astringent in taste, and non-toxic. "

③ Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, pungent, cool. "

[function indications] diuretic detumescence, heat clearing and detoxification. Treatment of edema, gonorrhea, dysentery, leucorrhea, carbuncle, sores.

① "Treatment of red and white dysentery. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "diuresis, detumescence. "

③ "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting diuresis and removing drenching. Treatment of edema, blood drenching, carbuncle, sores, nameless swelling poison. "

③ "Investigation of plant medicine in Guizhou": clearing away heat and relieving cough. "

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

[selection] 1. Treat edema: water clove or two. Drink and add water to fry, add some rock sugar, take it before meals, twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of gonorrhea: fresh water clove two, add water two bowls, fried into nine, bubble sugar or honey, oral.

③ Treatment of women with leucorrhea, dizziness, limb soft foot acid: fresh water clove in half, white cockscomb one or two. Add two and a half bowls of water, fry it into a bowl, remove the dregs and take the juice, stew it with the pork tripe, and take it three times. Avoid hot and sour food.

④ Treatment of carbuncle swelling poison: fresh water clove, wash, with acid rice and a little salt, a total of mash applied to the affected area. (2) Quanzhou materia medica

⑤ Treatment of eye Yi: water clove, fried and washed. (Hunan medical records)

⑥ Treatment of pharyngitis: fresh water clove one or two. Add Chengjian and take it orally with sugar. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑦ Treatment of traumatic bleeding, snakebite: water clove leaves mashed applied to the affected area. (Hunan medical records)