Snow tea

Snow tea

(collection of compendium)

Another name: local tea and Taibai tea.

[source] it is a lichen of the family Theaceae.

[plant morphology] snow tea

Lichens are white or grayish white, tubular, simple or sparsely branched, apex slightly curved, Ascaris lumbricoides, 3-7 cm high. The quilt and powder are lateral.

He was born in the alpine mountains. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] harvest after snow melting, remove moss and weeds at the base, and dry in the sun.

[medicinal materials] all of them are slender and tubular, with single branch or 2-3 branches, white, 3-7 cm long and 1-2 mm in diameter. The thick ones are flat and banded, with broken marks at the base, tapering at the apex, fine appearance and slight wrinkles and pits. The section is hollow. It's a little soft. No gas, bitter taste like tea. It is better to be strong, white and bitter.

Produced in Yunnan and Sichuan.

[chemical composition] it contains theanoic acid, squamaric acid, crotonic acid, d-arabinol and mannitol.

[nature and taste] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "light, slightly bitter, cool, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and thirst, refreshing the brain and calming the nerves. Treatment of deficiency, fatigue, bone steaming, pneumonia, cough, epilepsy, mania, neurasthenia, hypertension.

① "Gangmu Shiyi": "treat stomach qi accumulation pain, treat dysentery. "

② "Experience identification method of traditional Chinese medicine shape and nature": "clearing heat, relieving boredom. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clearing heat and refreshing brain. It can cure dry mouth, dizziness and mental fatigue. "

④ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, relieving thirst, calming the nerves, nourishing the heart and improving the eyesight. It is used to treat heart vexation and heat, deficiency and bone steaming, pneumonia, cough, epilepsy, mania, neurasthenia, astringent eyes, heatstroke and hypertension. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or tea drink.

[selection] 1. Treatment of neurasthenia: Taibai tea, Luxiancao three coins each, and yangjiaoshen two coins. Yellow rice wine as a guide, fried in water.

② Cure epileptic mania: big white tea, bead sand seven each three money, water decoct take. Long service is required.

③ Treatment of hypertension: Taibai tea, yangjiaoshen, xiaoyunjitou each five money, decoction. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)