Wild soybean vine

Wild soybean vine

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[source] stem, leaf and root of leguminous plant Laodou.

[plant morphology] Laodou (salvaging materia medica), also known as wild soya bean (baicaojing), Luhuo and emahuang (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), chaidou, wild soya bean, mountain soya bean and wild lentil.

Annual twining herbs. The stem is thin and thin, and each part is sparsely covered with yellowish brown long bristles. Three pinnate compound leaves alternate, thin papery, lateral leaflets oblate ovate lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, entire; long petiole. Raceme axillary; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; corolla butterfly, purplish red; stamens 10, monosomic; ovary superior, sessile, style short, stigma small. Pods linear rectangular, slightly curved, 1.5-13 cm long, 5 mm wide, hirsute, 3-4 seeds. The flowering and fruiting period is from August to September.

It grows beside the fields and ditches. Distributed in Northeast, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

The seeds of this plant (Phaseolus vulgaris) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[nature and taste] 1. Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "the nature is flat and the taste is light. "

② Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "sweet, slightly cold. "

Functions and indications: Invigorating the spleen. It can cure night sweats and tendons.

① "Life saving bitter sea": "for the treatment of pox and toxin, the stem and root of wild soya bean should be calcined to preserve the nature, research, sesame oil and application. Regardless of the beginning, the long time, not broken, has broken. "

② Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "liver calming and spleen strengthening. "

③ "Stop night sweats. "

④ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "nourish, strengthen and sweat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-4 Liang. External use: tamping or grinding.

[selection] ① night sweats: one to four taels of wild soybean vine and one to two taels of red jujube. Cook with sugar and eat with juice. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

② Treatment of tendon injury: fresh root of wild soybean, root skin of Ampelopsis, distiller's grains or wine. Mash and heat the affected area. (records of medicinal plants of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province)