Centipede duckweed

Centipede duckweed

(collection of compendium)

[synonyms] Ma Zao (qunfangpu), Bian Jiping (compendium), shuibaijiao, huaipiao, shuitongcao (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai), duckweed, baotianma (Guizhou herbal medicine), Ma Ping, Da Yuping (Fujian herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Sophora robiniaceae.

[plant morphology] Robinia pseudoacacia

Annual floating herbs. Stem slender, transverse, hairy. There are two kinds of leaves, one is as long and thin as the root, hanging in the water; the other is floating on the water, green, pinnate on both sides of the stem. Leaf blade rectangular round, 8-12 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, apex round, base round or tip heart-shaped, entire, above pale green, lateral veins with bristles, below by brown transparent Tricholoma. The sporophores are spherical, 4-8 clustered at the base of the root leaf. The sporangia are endophytic in the fruit. The megasporangia and microsporangia are divided into two sporophores. The spore stage is from September to December.

Born in ponds, paddy fields, etc. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[nature and taste] 1. Minnan folk herbal medicine: "bitter, flat. "

② "Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai": "pungent, cold. "

[function indications] it is used to treat asthenia heat, edema, sores, eczema and fire burns.

① Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. For carbuncle, swelling, toxin, blood stasis and pain. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "heat clearing, dehumidification, detumescence.". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping or frying soup fumigation.

[selection] 1. Treatment of asthenia and heat: centipede, duckweed and melon. Put the two herbs on the small bamboo sieve, then put the bamboo sieve on the pot, cover it tightly, stew for one or two hours in water, make the liquid drop in the pot, and then take it. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

② Treatment of rhinorrhea: a handful of centipede Ping. Mix the juice, make a glass of wine, take it warm, and apply the residue to the affected area. (Beijing Traditional Chinese medicine (9): 191954)

③ Treatment of edema: duckweed, triangle wind, star anise maple, smelly peony, Caulis Spatholobi, small Caulis Spatholobi each two to four Liang. Steam fumigation. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of eczema: a fresh centipede Ping one to two. Take it in water. Two fresh centipede duckweed, fresh eucalyptus leaves each amount. It's fried in water and washed in soup.

⑤ Red travel erysipelas: fresh centipede Ping and salt a little mash, paste Dazhui point, symptoms have not been reduced, plus paste fontanelle, no effect, plus paste navel.

⑥ Treatment of eyebrows: fresh centipede Ping and honey tamped on the affected area.

⑦ Treatment of mouth and lip disease: two fresh centipede duckweed and cockroach belly, a little salt, tamping the affected area. (4) Fujian Chinese herbal medicine is published below.)

⑧ Treatment of fire and scald: huaiye Pingzhi storage, research at the end of the transfer of oil topical. If the skin is not broken, it can be tamped with Sophora leaf apple and salt. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)