Wild cotton root

Wild cotton root

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[source] it is the root of Gossypium hirsutum, a Ranunculaceae plant.

[collection] collect and dig in spring or autumn, remove the stems and leaves, and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry root is slightly cylindrical and often twisted, with a total length of about 10-25 cm and a diameter of 0.6-2 cm. Most of the commodities have been broken, brown to purple brown in appearance, rough in surface, with longitudinal concave cracks, occasionally with branch root marks, and the outer skin sometimes falls off, exposing the yellow wood which is split and flaky. The head of the root is slightly inflated, with residual petiole base at the top, densely covered with white woolly hairs. It is brittle and easy to break; the skin of the section is light brown, the wood is yellow, the ray color is deep, and there are more than ten groups of bundles in the duct part, arranged radially. The central part and ray part of the root are usually fissured. Weak Qi, bitter taste.

Produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan and other places.

This product is used as Pulsatilla in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. See article "Pulsatilla".

[nature and taste] 1. In the south of Yunnan materia medica: "it is slightly cold in nature, bitter in taste and poisonous. "

② "Hunan medicine annals": "warm, bitter, toxic. "

[function indications] it is used to treat malaria, dysentery, beriberi, intestinal parasitic disease, carbuncle, swelling and toxin.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "Xiaqi. Kill cunbaichong and Ascaris lumbricoides in children. "

② "Treating dysentery". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 Qian; or grinding powder for pills. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat malaria: seven to nine wild cotton roots, eight liang of Changshan, one liter of soybean. Cook together, remove the medicine, dry the soybeans and grind them into fine powder, mix the wine into pills and realgar into clothes. Take ten pills before malaria.

② Carbuncle does not break: wild cotton roots, leaves two to three money. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of beriberi: stewed pig feet with wild cotton roots.

④ Treatment of itching: three cotton root decoction.

⑤ Treatment of centipede bite: tamp and apply the root of wild cotton.

⑥ Treatment of aphthous ulcer: Wild Cotton Root tamping application.

⑦ Treatment of insect teeth: the root of wild cotton contains the pain of internal teeth. (1) the following prescriptions are published in the medical records of Hunan Province.)

⑧ Cure ruffian: Wild Cotton Root five money. The sweet wine is boiled. Take the juice orally, take the dregs externally, and take three doses in a row. (Guizhou folk medicine Collection)