Cuscuta chinensis

Cuscuta chinensis

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] hydrogen (Erya), Tiankui (Ben Cao Tu Jing), chessboard vegetable (textual research on the names and facts of plants), Ruyong medicine (list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants).

[source] it is the stem and leaf of Cuscuta chinensis.

[plant morphology] Cuscuta chinensis, also known as mallow.

Herbs annual, all hirsute. The leaves are alternate, nearly round, 2-4 cm long and 5-6 cm wide, with 5-7 or 5-7 angular lobes of different depths on the edge, and the lobes are obtusely serrated; the petioles are 5-8 cm long with soft hairs. Flowers clustered in leaf axils, pedicel short, elongated after anthesis; bracteoles linear; calyx 5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular, apex pointed, densely hairy; petals 5-purplish red, slightly longer than calyx, base clawed, glabrous; stamens numerous, united into a cylinder, anthers inserted at the top. The fruit is oblate, 5-7 cm in diameter, the carpel is wrinkled, and the flowering period is from May to June.

It grows on the roadside and in the wilderness. It is distributed in East and South China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Tang materia medica: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

[function indications] for gonorrhea, adverse urination, mastitis, sore swelling.

① "Tang Materia Medica" says: "the main five stones Lin, stop tiger snake venom. "

② "Kaibao Materia Medica" says: "do not note the cloud, snake and tiger poison all sores, mash juice drink and apply sores, can detoxify and relieve pain. "

③ "The book of Materia Medica" says: "the leaf is the main source of heat. "

④ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of mastitis, unknown swelling poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup or mash juice. External use: tamping.