Flower of alopecia

Flower of alopecia

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] baldness flower (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of alopecia vulgaris.

[plant morphology] alopecia vulgaris

Herbs biennial or perennial, about 30 cm tall, with pale yellow juice. The root is cylindrical. Stems tufted, long hairy. The leaves are oblanceolate, 12.5 cm long and 5 cm wide, with white powder below, pinnately divided or deeply divided, 2-lobes sparsely dentate; the stem leaves are small, sessile and pinnately divided. Flowers orange yellow, about 3 cm in diameter, arranged in cymes, petioles without bracts; sepals 2, ovate; flowers 4: stamens numerous; ovules numerous. Capsule long cylindrical, about 5-8 cm long, mature to the base of the peak split into two petals.

It is distributed in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Gansu and other places.

[collection] the whole grass with roots can be harvested in spring and summer, dried in the shade or fresh.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and astringent in taste, cool in nature. "

[functions and indications] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence, relieving pain, killing insects. Treatment of tonsillitis, toothache, sore throat, lymphatic tuberculosis, alopecia, sore, scabies, carbuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[prescription selection] ① for toothache and sore throat: for alopecia, it costs four yuan to decoct in water and take it in proper amount with white sugar. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of tinea testis, women's vulva swelling: Alopecia flower, dandelion, wormwood leaf, onion each amount, fried and washed. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② For mouse sores and baldness sores: the flower of baldness sores and poplars are divided into two parts, which are decocted into plaster and applied to the sores. (Shaanxi herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of alopecia, stubborn ringworm: fresh flowers of alopecia pound into mud, apply the affected part. (Shaanxi herbal medicine)