Potherb

Potherb

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonym] ("Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu"), Ji Chang Cao ("BIE Lu"), di ("Guizhou herbal medicine").

[source] it is the whole plant of the family Euphorbia.

[plant morphology] Nostoc flagelliforme

Annual herb, 5-30 cm high. Stems usually white, branched, slender, erect, or tufted, with procumbent hairs. Leaves alternate, spatulate, elliptic or lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, apex obtuse or sharp, base narrow, both sides with flat coarse hairs; lower leaves with short stalks, upper leaves without stalks. Raceme terminal, slender, without bracts; flowers usually on one side of inflorescence, petiolate, 3-6 mm long; calyx 1-2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes oblong, apex acute; corolla blue, about 1.5 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes ovate, apex rounded blunt; stamens 5; ovary deeply 4-lobed, style linear, stigma capitate. Nutlets triangular quadrilateral, hairy, rarely smooth, petiolate. The flowering period is from May to June.

It grows on the roadside of the field. It is distributed from southwest to northeast of China.

[collection] collected in early summer.

It's hard work and cool.

① Bielu: "slightly cold. "

② "On medicinal properties": "tarpaulin. "

③ Meng Shen: "Wen. "

④ "Compendium": "slightly hard, flat, non-toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat enuresis, red and white dysentery, hair back, heat swelling, numbness of hands and feet.

① Bielu: "the main poison swelling, stop small convenience. "

② Tao Hongjing: "treating drowning. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "washing hands and feet, water rotten, the main enuresis. "

④ Meng Shen: "it can be used as ash and salt to cure all kinds of sores, and for those who feel itchy and painful, it can also be used as raw food. It can also be cooked as food to benefit people. It can also be used to cure infantile diarrhea. It can be used as a mixture of juice and honey. "

⑤ Guizhou herbal medicine: "expelling wind, relieving pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; mash juice or soak wine. External use: tamping or grinding to wipe the affected area.

[formula selection] 1. Convenience: a kilogram of chicken sausage grass is boiled in the juice, mixed with the soup, and served as porridge. (heart mirror of food medicine)

② Treatment of Qi drenching, abdominal distension, full stuffy: (hair) one or two, chicken intestine grass one or two. Add a piece of medicine, mash it, fry one and a half, remove the dross, and take it three times before eating. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Treatment of heat swelling: chicken intestine grass application. (behind the elbow)

④ Cure lacquer sores and itching: apply chicken intestine grass. (behind the elbow)

⑤ Cure numbness: ground pepper two Liang. Wine making clothes. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

⑥ Treat chest rib pain: ground pepper one or two. Take it in boiling water. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of acne: Chicken Intestines grass juice brush. Or for the end, zhuzhitiao liniment. (Yilin Zhengzong)

⑧ Treatment of wind heat, toothache, edema, intermittent hair, Yuan Zang Qi deficiency, infantile malnutrition: Chicken Intestines, grass, etc. For the end, three times a day. (Puji Fang Qutong powder)