Xiaochaocai

Xiaochaocai

(compendium)

[synonym] qiaoyao (a collection of Materia Medica), yuanxiucai, yevicia, piaoyaocao (compendium), queyedou, queyedou, baiqiaoyao, tiaozi, baihuatiao (collection of commonly used folk herbs), xiaoyema (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] the whole plant of Vicia rigida.

[plant morphology] Vicia rigida

Herbs annual or biennial. The stem is thin, soft and creeping, almost glabrous or sparsely pilose, ribbed, 10-30 cm high. Stipules with linear teeth or 4-5 linear teeth on one side, pubescent below. Pinnate compound leaves; leaflets 4-8 pairs, linear or linear rectangular, 5-15 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, apex truncate or slightly concave, apically acuminate, base narrowly cuneate, glabrous on both sides, rachis terminal with tendrils, raceme axillary, 2-5-flowered, shorter than leaves; calyx campanulate, outside sparsely covered with short soft hairs, calyx teeth 5, equal length, linear needlelike; corolla white purple, flag petal elliptic, wing petal apex rounded, similar to Petals equal, auricle free, keel shorter than petals; stamens 10 (9 + 1), auricle free; sessile in ovary, densely brown hirsute, style apically pilose. Pods oblate brown, oblong setae. 1-2 seeds, 8-10 mm long. The flowering and fruiting period is from late March to late May.

Most of them are wild in wheat field or hillside. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shanxi and Taiwan.

The seeds of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes.

[nature and taste] notes on materia medica: "it is pungent, flat and non-toxic. "

[Guijing] compendium of materia medica: "enter the hand foot Taiyin and Yangming meridians. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It can cure yellow disease, malaria, epistaxis and leucorrhea.

① "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "Li Wu Zang, Ming ears and eyes, to the hot wind, it is light and healthy. It can cure five kinds of yellow diseases. "

② "Materia medica collection": "it is mainly used to break blood, stop bleeding and generate muscle. "

③ Compendium: "stop fever and malaria, activate blood circulation and calm stomach. "

④ "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "sweating, relieving exterior, eliminating dampness and heat, stopping leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-2 Liang.

[prescription selection] ① five kinds of yellow diseases: take one liter of raw and mashed juice, two days a day. (dietotherapy materia medica)

② Treatment of fever and malaria: shake the pestle and take it. (guanglifang)

③ Treatment of epistaxis more than: white Forsythia shake the end of the cooked mash clothing. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)