Wuqi Chaoyang grass

Wuqi Chaoyang grass

(investigation report on medicine and plant in Kunming)

[synonym] zhuifengqi, jianzhongxiao, zhuifengcao, Wujindan (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root and whole grass of Myrica rubra.

[plant morphology] Myrica rubra

Perennial herb, 50-90cm high, covered with bristles. The main root is slightly massive, with branched roots and fine fibrous roots. The basal leaves are large, tufted, pinnately divided or nearly pinnately compound; the apical leaves are large, rhomboid ovate to round, 5-10 cm long, 3-10 cm wide, 3-lobed or notched, apex slightly pointed, margin dentate, both sides sparsely setose; lateral leaves are small, 1-3 pairs, broadly ovate; cauline leaves are 3-5 pieces, ovate, 3-lobed or pinnately divided; stipules ovate, notched. Flowers solitary on the top or upper part of the stem, yellow; sepals broadly lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, 5-7.5 mm long; stamens and pistils numerous. Aggregate fruit globose, ca. 1. 5 cm in diam., persistent style, apex with long uncinate spines. It blooms in summer. The fruit period is autumn.

It grows on the edge of coniferous forest, mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest, mountain road, hillside, slightly wetland, mixed grassland and house. It is distributed in Northeast, North China, northwest, southwest, Henan, Shandong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, dried in the shade or fresh.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "sweet and pungent in taste, flat in nature. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and detumescence. It is used to treat lumbocrural pain, dysentery, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, traumatic injury, carbuncle, sore, sore throat and scrofula.

① "Kunming medicine plant investigation report": "diuresis, cure sore poison. "

② "Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine": "dispelling wind and removing dampness, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and tranquilizing. It is used to treat lumbocrural pain, traumatic injury, dysentery, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, infantile convulsion, mastitis, sore throat, tonsillitis, carbuncle, sore and scrofula. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 yuan; or fresh product mashed juice. External use: tamping.

[formula selection] ① for irregular menstruation, infertility and uterine cancer: Wuqi Chaoyang Cao Wuqian. Cook chicken or meat. (prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in Yunnan)

② Treatment of children with chronic convulsion: zhuifengqi (leaves in spring and summer, roots in autumn and winter) with a cup of juice, boiled water and uniform oral. (Shaanxi herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of carbuncle and furuncle swelling and pain: fresh Zhuifeng seven pound into mud paste, apply to the sore swelling place. (Shaanxi herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of sore throat: Zhuifeng seven three money, eight claw dragon two money. Take it in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)