Elsholtzia splendens

Elsholtzia splendens

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[alias] Mentha microphylla (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), manpoxiang and yejingjie (Guizhou folk medicine), Artemisia capillaris and vanilla (Jiangxi traditional Chinese Medicine), wucao, shanmentha, shucao and xiangyejiegudan (Shaanxi plant medicine survey), and Yinchen (Guangxi plant medicine list).

[source] it is the whole plant of Origanum vulgare.

[plant morphology] oregano

Herbs erect, 25-50 cm tall, perennial. Stem base lignified, smooth, cylindrical, upper square, surface light brown purple, with fine villi, with nodes. Leaves opposite, ovoid, 1-3 cm long, 6-15 mm wide, apex obtuse, base rounded, or broadly cuneate, entire, glandular dots and fine hairs on both sides; petiole 2-5 mm long. Flowers bisexual, 2-flowered in whorls, densely forming terminal spike corymbs; bracts short stalked, ovoid, with fine hairs on both sides; calyx cylindric, 2.3 mm long, with 5 teeth and 15 veins, with hairs on the outside and tooth margin and glandular dots on the inside; corolla pink, with fine hairs and glandular dots on the top, 2 lips, upper lip erect, tip slightly concave, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 4, inserted at the throat of corolla tube; Style apically 2-lobed. 4 nutlets, brown and smooth. The flowering period is from July to October. The fruit period is from October to November.

Growing on hillside grass, roadside or valley. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] from July to August, the aerial parts were harvested before flowering, dried or fresh.

[medicinal material] dry whole grass, with or without roots, about 30-40 cm long, stem about 2-3 mm thick, surface gray green, slightly brown purple, densely hairy, nodes obvious, internodes 2-3 cm long; easy to break, section fibrous, yellow green. The leaves are shrunken, green, oval in shape, with short trichomes on the surface. Most of them have no inflorescence. The air is slightly fragrant. It is better to have many leaves, green color, no inflorescence and root.

It is mainly produced in Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan and Sichuan. In addition, it is also produced in Guangxi, Gansu, Guizhou and Shaanxi.

[flavor] Guizhou folk medicine: "cool in nature, pungent in taste, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior, regulating qi and removing dampness. Treatment of cold, fever, vomiting, chest fullness, diarrhea, jaundice, infantile malnutrition.

① "Guizhou folk medicine": "remove skin damp heat, relieve exterior pain, treat cold and fever, stop vomiting. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of jaundice, malnutrition, infantile diarrhea, edema. "

③ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain and promoting muscle growth, dredging orifices and benefiting diaphragm, regulating menstruation. Treatment of traumatic injury, fracture, chest diaphragm fullness, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea. "

④ Guizhou herbal medicine: "relieving exterior, regulating qi, promoting dampness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-6 yuan. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of skin pruritus due to damp heat: half a jin of Elsholtzia splendens (fresh grass), boiling water and bathing.

② Treatment of cold, fever, nasal congestion, cough or vomiting: manpoxiang (dry) three money, perilla two money, loquat leaf (dry) two money, junxincao one money. Fried, three times a day, two glasses at a time.

③ To control Qi and food stagnation: manpoxiang and yanwangci are four coins each, while bupleurum, zouxiaocao, tusiha, Cinnamomum camphora and fennel are three coins each. Take it in water, three times a day. (1) Guizhou folk medicine is published below the prescription.)

④ Treatment of leucorrhea: Five Herbs, sulfur each three money. Take it in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)