Medicine for Water Injury

Medicine for Water Injury

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] Shuiyao and xuejingcao (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Primulaceae, Lysimachia angustifolia.

[plant morphology] Lysimachia angustifolia is also known as "Mantianxing".

Perennial herbs, 30-60 cm high. Stem erect, angulate, base reddish yellow. Leaves opposite; leaf blade oblanceolate, 3-7 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed into a stalk, entire margin, below with red, with most glandular dots. Raceme axillary or terminal, a constant set into a broad panicle type; bracts lanceolate, calyx 5-lobed, lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube; ovary superior, 1-locular. Capsule globose, irregularly dehiscent, peduncle long, seeds numerous, smooth, slightly marginate.

Born in the ditch. It is distributed in Yunnan, Zhejiang and Guizhou.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] it is flat in nature, bitter, sour and astringent in taste.

Functions and indications: promoting Qi, breaking blood, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of amenorrhea, fatigue, sores.

[selection] ① treatment of amenorrhea: one water injures one or two medicines. Stewed meat. It's five yuan for ershui medicine, four yuan for dahueteng, three yuan for xiaoxueteng, and two yuan for Yueyue kaigen. One and a half catties of wine, one or two in the morning and one in the evening.

② Treatment of menstrual dizziness, abdominal pain: water medicine five money, small blood vine three money, blue cloth is four money. Take fried water and wine.

③ Treatment of tuberculosis: water medicine three money, butterfly, wild tobacco root; small blood vine each two money. Take one jin of wine, one or two in the morning and one or two in the evening.

④ Treatment of redness, swelling and sores: Smash and apply water wounding drugs. (the following is Guizhou folk medicine)