Codonopsis pilosula

Codonopsis pilosula

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[alias] milkvetch, native goat's milk (herbal formula), baiyangshen, douyueshen (Kunming medicinal plant investigation report), yedangshen (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), duckweed ginseng (collection of folk commonly used herbs), native ginseng, native ginseng (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), native ginseng (Jiangxi herbal medicine), native ginseng, ginseng tuber, South ginseng, modenguo (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), child Er Ge (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), Chai dangshen (Guizhou medicine plant catalog), Chuan Shen (commonly used herbal medicine treatment manual).

[source] it is the root of leopard.

[plant morphology] leopard, also known as Platycodon grandiflorum, milkvetch vine, duckweed, floating bottle and golden thread hanging gourd.

Perennial twining herbs. The main root is fat, fleshy, beige and few fibrous roots. Stem slender, light green, smooth, glabrous. Single leaf opposite, ovate heart-shaped, 2-7 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, apex pointed, margin obtuse serrate, base deep, heart-shaped, both sides glabrous; petiole almost as long as leaf blade. Flowers campanulate, solitary in leaf axils, bisexual; sepals 5, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, 1.5 cm long, base slightly united; corolla yellowish green, with purple stripes, 2-3 cm in diameter, lobes 5, involute outward; stamens 5, filaments separated; pistils 1, ovary superior, 4-5-locular, rarely 3-locular. Berries hemispherical and flat, ca. 12 mm in diam. The seeds are numerous. The flowering period is from August to September.

Born on the sunny slope of low mountain area. It is distributed in the South and southwest of China.

[collection] in autumn, dig the roots, wash them, remove the fibrous roots and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dry roots are long cylindrical or conical, slightly curved, generally 8-15 cm long, 1-1.5 m in diameter, often branched, pale yellow to earthy yellow on the surface, with obvious longitudinal wrinkles, and often twisted in the lower part. It is flexible, easy to break when dry, with rough section, yellow skin and white central column.

Produced in Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan and other places.

[nature and taste] records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine: "it tastes sweet and slightly bitter, warm and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: Invigorating the spleen and stomach, tonifying lung qi, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. It is used to treat internal injury due to deficiency of labor, cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, lack of milk, infantile malnutrition and enuresis.

① Guizhou folk medicine collection: "tonifying deficiency and Qi, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. "

② Guangzhou army's "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "treat tuberculosis, hot in summer. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 Liang.

[selected prescriptions] ① for cough due to lung deficiency: Codonopsis pilosula, lily, scallop, Stemona, lotus rice and sweet almond. Stewed pork suit. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Milk: Codonopsis, astragalus, Codonopsis, angelica. Stewed chicken suit. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of leucorrhea (Qi deficiency): Codonopsis, leucorrhiza each five money, cuttlebone eight money, amaranth root one or two. Take it in water, one dose a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

④ Treatment of cold cough: Codonopsis two to four Liang, white pepper. Artemisia argyi leaves each three money. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of infantile enuresis: Codonopsis four Liang, pig lean meat four Liang. Stew in water, take soup and eat meat. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of spleen deficiency diarrhea: Codonopsis five money to one or two, jujube three to five money. Take it in water.

⑦ Treatment of infantile malnutrition: Codonopsis five money, Xianmao five money, pig meat with stew service.

⑧ To cure carbuncle and gangrene, Qi deficiency is difficult to break: one or two Codonopsis, one or two rhubarb. (6) Fujian Chinese herbal medicine is listed below.)