Gleditsia sinensis

Gleditsia sinensis

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[synonyms] guanmencao, shanmeidou (northeast medicine plant records), jindouzi (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), shuitong (collection of folk commonly used herbs), shanbiandou (Guiyang folk herbs), Shancha (northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole plant of Cassia obtusifolia.

[plant morphology] Cassia obtusifolia

Annual herb, 30-60 cm high, hairy. Double pinnate compound leaves, alternate, 5-10 cm long, 8-35 pairs of leaflets; leaflets linear oblong, 5-9 mm long, both ends slightly oblique, apex short pointed; stipules 1 pair, lanceolate, apex subulate, persistent. Flowers yellow, axillary, 1-2; pedicels short, 5-10 mm long; bracts 1 pair, linear lanceolate; sepals 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, surface covered with fine hairs; petals 5, obovate, 4-7 mm long; stamens 4; pistils 1, pods flat, oblong linear, 3-5 cm long, densely covered with grayish yellow hairs, with 6-12 seeds. Seeds flat, rhomboid, light yellowish brown, ca. 3 mm. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from August to September.

Born on the edge of forest, grass, roadside. Distributed in Northeast, Hebei, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

The seeds of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

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

[herbal medicine] it is a dry whole grass, with round stems and branches, brownish yellow, grayish black at the base, longitudinal lines and verrucous pores on the surface, yellowish white, hard and easy to break, white cross-section, and hollow bubbles. The leaves are mostly curly, or falling off, brownish green or grayish green; brittle and fragile. The remaining pods are brown. The air is weak and the taste is light.

Produced in Guizhou, Sichuan and other places.

[taste] sweet and bitter, flat.

① "Guiyang folk herbs": "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

② "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "sweet slightly bitter, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing the liver, improving eyesight, harmonizing the spleen and promoting diuresis. Treatment of eye flower, night blindness, migraine, edema, beriberi, jaundice.

① Guizhou folk medicine collection: "diuresis, diarrhea, antitussive, kidney deficiency, Qingxin, tomorrow. "

② "He Pi Xiao Zhang" is a traditional Chinese medicine. Treatment of jaundice. "

③ Guiyang folk herbs: "clear the liver, clear the eyes. "

④ "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "clearing heat and diuresis, strengthening stomach and defecating. Treatment of edema, nephritis, thirst, cough, chronic constipation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder.

[selection] 1. To treat night blindness: Rhizome and leaf powder of lentil, boiled pig liver or mixed with bee sugar. One side to lentil stem and leaf two decocted water service. (Guiyang folk herbs)

② Cure half headache: Mountain lentil stem leaf, dizziness medicine each one or two, herring gall grass five money. Take it in boiling water. (Guiyang folk herbs)