Su Huangqi

Su Huangqi

(records of plant medicine in Jiangsu)

[synonym] native Astragalus membranaceus, offer dry food, dog dry food (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Malva rotundifolia

Perennial herbs. The roots are deep and thick. Stems stoloniferous, slightly hirsute. Leaves alternate; round kidney shaped, 2-4 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, with 5-7 obtuse lobes, margin with obtuse teeth; petiole 5-14 cm long. Flowers white or light blue, about 1.5 cm in diameter, nestled in leaf axils, pedicel slender, with fine hairs; bracteoles 3, lanceolate; calyx 5-lobed, broadly ovate, petals 5, obcordate, 1-time longer than calyx, base with fine hairs. There are many stamens, forming a cylinder, anthers attached at the top; ovary is multi locular, style and carpel number are equal, stigma is linear. Fruit oblate, about 6 mm in diameter, carpel back densely covered with fine hairs, no wrinkles. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit ripens in July.

Most of them are planted in roadside wasteland. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] collect in spring and autumn, clean and dry.

[chemical composition] it contains fatty oil (including oleic acid, stearic acid and palmitic acid), wax (mainly octadecane), phytosterol, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride, calcium sulfate, arabinose, mucilage, resin and tar.

[pharmacological action] the extract of roots can inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro. The root, cotyledon and cotyledon all contain a lot of mucilaginous substance, which can be used as lubricating and relaxing stimulant for mucosal inflammation.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet in taste, warm in nature. "

[functions and indications] 1. In Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi: "promoting lactation. "

② "Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine": "Buzhong Yiqi, Tuochuang poison, diuresis, milk. Treatment of asthenia, anemia, tuberculosis, prolapse of anus, uterine prolapse, nephritis, edema, diabetes, sore swelling is not easy to penetrate, lack of milk. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; stew, 1-2 Liang.

[selection] ① for anemia: Radix Astragali or two, spinach root or two, stewed mutton.

② Milk: soil Astragalus one or two, two pig feet. Stew with sugar.

③ It is not easy to treat sore and swelling by external penetration. Stewed chicken. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)