Yejueming

Yejueming

(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

[source] stems, leaves and seeds of Cassia obtusifolia.

[plant morphology] Cassia obtusifolia

Herbs perennial, 18-50 cm high, glabrous. Its leaflets are elliptic or slightly rhombic in shape, 4-7 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, with blunt or acute apex, cuneate base, glabrous above and silky hairs extending below; its stipules are very large, leaflike, ovate to lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long and 1.2-2.5 cm wide. Peanut in the top of the branch, yellow, alternate, arranged in sparse racemes; calyx upper two lobes almost healed, lower three lobes separated; corolla butterfly; stamens 10, separated; bracts lanceolate. Pods linear, 5-6 cm long, 0.6-0.7 cm wide, dark brown, with soft hairs. The flowering period is from April to May.

Born on the sunny hillside. It is distributed in the north and south of China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[chemical constituents] the aerial part contains 0.5% of total alkaloids, among which there are flavone, genistein, pachydrine, etc. The content of total alkaloids in pods and seeds was 0.56% and 0.72%, respectively.

It's poisonous.

[channel tropism] entering lung and stomach channels.

Functions and indications: detoxification, detumescence, expectorant and emetic. Treatment of scabies.

[usage and dosage] for external use: tamping or grinding. Oral: 1 ~ 2 yuan, use with caution.

(1) fresh Jueming leaf prescription was used to treat malignant sores.

② Cure scabies: yejueming with scopolamine, grind the end of the oil to wipe. (the following is the manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment.)