Eupatorium odoratum

Eupatorium odoratum

(classified herbal medicine)

[synonym] capsicum, wild celery (classified herbal).

[source] the whole plant of Ranunculaceae Ranunculus Yangzi.

[plant morphology] Ranunculus Yangzi

Herbs perennial, covered with white or yellowish pubescence. Base branched, often creeping on the ground. The leaves are 3-compound, with long petioles; the leaves are broadly ovate, 2-4.5 cm long and 3-6 cm wide; the central leaflets are long or short petioles, broadly ovate or rhomboid ovate, 3-lobed to deeply lobed; the upper edge of the lobes is sparsely serrate; the lateral leaflets are short petioles, unequally 2-lobed. Flowers opposite leaves solitary, pedunculate, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; sepals 5, narrowly ovate, reflexed; petals 5, yellow, nearly elliptic; stamens numerous, anthers yellow; pistils numerous, ovary superior, style hooked. Achene flat, marginate, middle protuberant, apex shortly beaked. The flowering period is from May to June.

Born in wet and shady places by streams or woods. It is distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Taiwan.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer.

[nature and taste] 1. Classified herbal medicine: hot in nature, bitter in taste and toxic. "

② "Hunan medicine annals": "Xin, toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat malaria, gall swelling, poisonous sores and injuries.

① "Classified herbal medicine nature": "cure all kinds of sores, cover the mouth of fish, and treat snake bite externally. "

② Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "treating traumatic injury. "

③ Chongqing herbal medicine: "malaria can be stopped. "

④ "Treatment of gall and swelling" in Hunan Medical Records. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping.

[formula selection] ① malaria interception: before malaria onset, the tender branches and leaves of Eupatorium odoratum should be used to tamp the vein tendons (the inner part of the forearm is connected with the wrist, which can also wrap the life gate), but it should be padded with cloth, and the wrapping time should not be too long.

② Treatment of toxic sores or bleeding from falls: mash the tender stems and leaves of duck foot grass, cover the wound, remove the pus, stop bleeding and generate muscle. But it can't be applied on the uninjured skin, otherwise it will stimulate and blister.

③ For those who have not broken the skin after falling: a small amount of duck foot grass, mixed with wine and knead it. (Chongqing herbal medicine)