Crystal flower

Crystal flower

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonym] SIKUAIWA (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), asarum, doupixiang, baikaihoujian (Guangxi medicine plant list), siyedui (Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain Medicine Plant record), yinxiancao (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs).

[source] it is the root and whole grass of Chloranthaceae.

[plant morphology] Chloranthus fragrans

Perennial herbs, 20-30 cm high. The stem nodes are obvious, and there are scalelike leaflets on the nodes. Leaves opposite, often two pairs at the end of stem, nearly papery; leaves broadly ovate or elliptic, 4-12 cm long, 2.5-5.5 cm wide, apex obtuse or acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrate, tooth tip with a gland; petiole 1.6 cm long. Inflorescence is single, spicate, 4-6 cm long, without petiole and perianth, but with bracts; bracts obovate, apex 3-toothed; stamens 3, healed by connective enlargement, middle 2-locular, both sides 1-locular, fully developed, apex 3-lobed, elongated into linear, up to 2-3 cm long, milky white; ovary ovate. Fruit obovate. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows in the wet grass with humus under the hillside or low mountain forest. Distributed in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it has pungent taste, warm nature and little poison. "

Functions and indications: expelling wind and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. It can treat rheumatism, dysentery, diarrhea, stomachache, cough, dry blood tuberculosis, traumatic injury, sore, furuncle, swelling and poison.

Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, detumescence and detoxification. It can treat rheumatoid arthritis, acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, cough, swelling and pain, sores and boils. "

[usage and dosage] oral: root: decoction, 1-2 yuan. External use: whole grass: tamping.

[taboo] 1. According to the records of Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant, this product is poisonous and can cause vomiting if taken more. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "pregnant women should take it with caution. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat women's dry blood tuberculosis: five to six yuan of fresh crystal flower root, fried in water, washed with yellow rice wine and brown sugar.

② Treatment of abdominal pain and vomiting after traumatic injury: fresh crystal flower root five to six money (dry root reduced by half), plus green wood incense four to five money, fried in water, red wine (appropriate), fasting two times in the morning and evening.

③ Treatment of stomachache or internal pain: dry crystal flower root three to four points, fried grind fine powder swallow.

④ Cure scabies: crystal flower whole grass decoct juice wash. (selected the prescription and published the records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang Province)