Red car messenger

Red car messenger

(Lei Gong Paozhi Lun)

[synonym] xiaojinzhi (Lei Gong Paozhi Lun), Banbianshan, banbiansan, daolaonen (Guizhou folk medicine), xishuimaye, shibiancai, xiaobaisha (Hunan medicine records).

[source] it is the whole plant of the Urticaceae.

[plant morphology] red car Messenger, also known as building ladder grass.

Perennial herbs. Stem oblique, 30-40 cm high. The leaf blade is obliquely oblong or obliquely obovate oblong, the apex is sharp, caudate, the base is semicircular, there are more than 5-10 coarse serrations on each side above the middle of the edge, 5-9 pairs of lateral veins; sessile. Flowers dioecious, cymes often gathered into a head shape; male flowers 7-10 clustered, inflorescence petiolate; female flowers 8-12 clustered, inflorescence sessile; involucre lanceolate linear; sepals 4; stamens 4; ovary superior, 1-locular, stigma in brush head shape, a cluster. Achenes ovate, minute. It blooms in summer.

Born in the valley between the Yin wetland. It is distributed in Central China.

The rhizome of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] take in spring and summer, wash, dry or fresh.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is slightly bitter and non-toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat dysentery, rheumatic pain, jaundice, edema, nameless swelling and toxin, fracture.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: mash and rub with wine.

[prescription selection] ① for red and white dysentery: Banbianshan (the living) is five yuan, mashed and soaked in wine, mixed with Taomi water. Take one cup at a time, twice a day. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of rheumatic pain: half of the mountain, mash mixed with wine, rub pain. Rub it every morning and evening. (Guizhou folk medicine)

③ Treatment of jaundice: red car messenger seven money five (dry), boiled duck eggs two, mixed with sweet wine service. (Hunan medical records)

④ Treatment of edema: red car messenger three money, two money, Maogen two money, two money, two money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

⑤ Treatment of unknown swelling poison: half of the mountain, and sweet wine mash applied to the affected area. (Guizhou folk medicine)

⑥ Fracture treatment: Banbianshan, Pyrola, etc. Pound down, stir fry with distiller's grains, heat up the wound, change it every day. (Guizhou folk medicine)