Amaranth 2

Amaranth

(Hunan medical records)

[synonym] xiantaocao, jiejincao (Hunan medical records), shuiamaranth (Guangxi Medical Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant of amaranth, which belongs to the family chelidaceae.

[plant morphology] amaranth

Annual herbs, 7-30 cm high, glabrous. Stem erect, 4-ribbed, often branched. Leaves opposite or slightly opposite, lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.2-1.2 cm wide, apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed into short stalks or sessile. Cymes axillary, short pedunculate, with dense flowers; bracts small, strip subulate; calyx campanulate, ca. 1 mm long, calyx teeth 4, equilateral triangular; apetalous; stamens 4, near the middle of calyx tube, as long as or shorter than calyx lobes; ovary spherical, style about half of ovary, ca. 0.4 mm long. Capsule globose, purplish red, 1-1.5 mm in diam., irregularly covered above middle; seeds numerous, small, subtriangular.

It grows in the fields and wet places on the roadside. It is distributed in Yunnan, South China and Qinling.

[collection] harvest in summer and dry in the sun.

"Bitter and astringent, slightly cold. "

[functions and indications] 1. In Hunan Medical Records: "removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding and connecting bone.". "

② "Guangxi medical plant directory": "Ye: treating rheumatism. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; grind powder or soak wine. External use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[prescription selection] ① for internal injury and hematemesis: two coins of amaranth and three coins of melon seed and lotus. Take it in water, three times a day.

② Treatment of excessive exertion, pain: a water amaranth whole grass three Liang, a jin of wine soaking, sooner or later take a small cup. Two water amaranth whole grass two money. At the end of the study, take it with boiling water.

③ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: amaranth one or two water, baked, borneol three. At the end of the study, the wounds were scattered. Two water amaranth, geese do not eat grass, mash the wound.

④ Treatment of traumatic injury: water amaranth whole grass, mashed, on the wine service.

⑤ Treatment of fracture: water amaranth whole grass, mashed compress.

⑥ Cure snake bite: water amaranth Lai whole grass a money, snake but a money and a half, garlic a petal. Mash and apply. (selected prescriptions from Hunan Pharmacopoeia)