Duck's beak

Duck's beak

(Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] tiaojingcao (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), tianzhicao and yuweicao (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant of dryland grass of Scrophulariaceae.

Dryland grass

Annual herbs. Stems weak, prostrate, branched, up to 30 cm long. Single leaf opposite, obovate oblong, 1.8-4 cm long, apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed into petiole, edge with sharp serrate. Raceme terminal, florets petiolate; sepals 5, green, lobes linear lanceolate, ca. 6 mm; corolla purple, base tubular, front 2-lipped, ca. 13 mm, upper lip broad, concave, 2-lobed, lower lip extended, 3-lobed; stamens 2-developed, staminodes 2-glandular; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule cylindrical, 1.5-2 cm long. The flowering period is June.

It is found in wetlands and paddy fields. It is distributed in southwest and Guangdong.

[nature and taste] Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "light, flat. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and detoxification. Treatment of irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dysentery, aphthous ulcer, mastitis, scrofula, traumatic injury.

① Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "regulating blood and promoting qi. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of red dysentery, angular stomatitis, snakebite, pediatric scabies. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

To treat amenorrhea, one or two herbs are used to regulate menstruation, stewed in wine and water, or Decoction with Siwu Decoction.

② Treatment of early menstruation, retrogression or dysmenorrhea: fresh dryland grass one to two. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of breast carbuncle, back carbuncle: fresh dry field grass 1 to 2 liang, wine, water frying service; slag cold rice or brown sugar mashed topical.

④ To cure scrofula: fresh dry land grass 1 to 2 liang. Take it in water.

⑤ Treatment of traumatic swelling and pain: two to three liang of fresh upland grass. Stewed in wine. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine was selected)