Cymbidium goeringii

Cymbidium goeringii

(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

[synonym] Hadun biriyanggu (mengming), nawuhuangnai (Tibetan name).

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

[plant morphology] Cymbidium goeringii

Perennial herbs, 15-40 cm high. Stem oblique, quadrangular, hairy. The basal petiole is slender, the leaf blade is broad ovate or heart-shaped, long elliptic, the apex is blunt, the edge has regular round teeth, both sides are hairy, the upper part is green, the lower part is white, the lower part of the leaf is reticulate vein is obvious; the cauline leaf is opposite, the petiole is short. Inflorescence racemose, several at the top of stem; calyx sublabiate, 5-toothed, with short tip, one of the largest upper lip; corolla 2-lipped, blue purple; bracts with large teeth.

Born on rocky hillside or hillside roadside, wet valley. It is distributed in Northwest and Northeast China.

[collection] from July to August, the whole grass was collected, washed and dried.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, cool.

① "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "pungent, cool. "

② "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": sweet and bitter, flat. "

[meridian tropism] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "entering lung, stomach and spleen three meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and inflammation, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Treatment of exogenous wind heat, headache, cold and heat, sore throat, cough, jaundice hepatitis, hematemesis, bleeding, dysentery.

① "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": antipyretic and anti-inflammatory. Treatment of wind heat headache, sore throat, cough, exogenous food clip, chest fullness. "

② "Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine": "clear heat and dry dampness, cool liver and stop bleeding. Treat headache, jaundice, hematemesis, bleeding, sore throat, dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or grind powder into pill or powder.

[selected formula] it is used to treat exogenous food, cold and heat headache, vomiting and diarrhea caused by stomach heat: yanqinglan, Elsholtzia, Fangfeng, Fuling and Rosa fruit are divided into equal parts and taken in water. (manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)