Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum perforatum

(Nanjing folk herbs)

[synonym] xiaohanlin herb (Nanjing folk herb), xiaoguoluhuang, xiaozhonghuang (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), qushanbian, qianlanglou, Shangtianti (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), xiaoxiangyuecao (Guizhou plant medicine investigation), xiaoxiangyecao, xiaozhonghuang (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or the whole grass with roots of Hypericum perforatum.

[plant morphology] Hypericum perforatum

Perennial herbs. The stem is erect with many branches and axillary branches. The leaves are dense, opposite, elliptic to linear, 1-2 cm long and 3-9 mm wide, apex obtuse, entire, base clasping, scattered with transparent glandular dots and black glandular dots on the leaf margin. The flowers are in cymes with 5 sepals, lanceolate and black glandular dots on the edge; the petals are 5, longer and yellow than sepals; the petals and anthers have black glandular dots; the stamens are mostly in 3 bundles; the ovary is 1-locular and the style is 3-lobed. Capsule oblong, dehiscent. The seeds are cylindrical. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is October.

Wild on hillsides, under trees or in grass. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is flat in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is pungent and slightly bitter. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, astringency and hemostasis, diuresis. Treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, intestinal wind blood, trauma bleeding, rheumatism, bone pain, sores in the mouth and nose, swelling and poison, soup fire injury.

① Nanjing folk herbs: "root and seedling: taking it in boiling water can cure hematemesis. "

② Guizhou folk medicine collection: "astringent hemostasis. It can be used for hemoptysis, hematemesis, knife wound bleeding, external use to eliminate nameless swelling toxin, treat mumps and throat heat. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treat rheumatism, bone pain and burn caused by soup fire. "

④ Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing heat, detoxifying, milking, diuresis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: tamping, grinding, kneading fresh leaves and stuffing the nose.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of hematemesis: Hypericum perforatum and Forsythia suspense for five to one or two yuan (used together with snow and June snow). Take it in boiling water. (Nanjing folk herbs)

② Treatment of tuberculosis low back pain: Hypericum perforatum flowers, leaves, aituotuo. Stewed pig bone suit. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of mouth and nose occult: small Folium Folium ruble down, plug nose.

④ Treatment of breast furuncle: a few pieces of small pair of leaves, rub the nostril (left breast pain plug right nostril, right breast pain plug left nostril), change the dressing when dry; and use this medicine to tamp down the pain; and use one to two pairs of decocted water as tea. It can't be used if the furuncle has festered.

⑤ Cure milk little: small to leaf grass one or two. Stewed meat.

⑥ Treatment of jaundice and hepatitis: two pairs of small herbs. Take it in boiling water. (3) Guizhou herbal medicine

⑦ Treatment of soup fire burns: Hypericum perforatum mill, transfer sesame oil liniment. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)