Yudai root

Yudai root

(drug records of Nanning City)

[synonyms] coralline twig (raw herbal medicine), slipper flower, coralline (flora of Guangzhou), centalus herb, twisted herb (flora of Nanning City), hemostatic herb (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of cardinal coral in Euphorbiaceae.

[plant morphology] cardinal coral

Subshrub semierect, 60-100 cm high. Stem fleshy, dark green, cylindrical, 6-12 mm thick, often wavy curved, with milk. Leaves ovate to ovate oblong, 5-10 cm long, short pointed, base slightly narrow and irregularly retrovolved, midrib raised on the back of leaves. Cymes in cup shape are dense terminal compound cymes; involucre is bright red or purple, about 1 cm long, with glandular bodies on the upper base, except that the apical lobes have eyelashes And style are prominent. Capsule ca. 6 mm. The flowering period is between summer and autumn.

It is often cultivated in Guangzhou and Nanning.

[collection] the whole plant should be used, and fresh is the best.

[flavor] sour, cold and poisonous.

① "Nanning medicine annals": "sour, salty, slightly astringent, cool nature, little poison. "

② "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "acid slightly astringent, cold nature, a small poison. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying, analgesia and hemostasis. It can cure sore, swelling, pain, trauma, bleeding and burning eye.

① "The record of Lingnan medicine collection" says: "the treatment of big sores can kill scabies and insects. There is white juice in it. Take it to wipe tinea. "

② "Nanning drug records": "take anti-inflammatory and analgesic, treat low back pain. Stem and leaf: tamping treatment of redness, swelling, pain and injury. "

③ Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat and detoxification, hemostasis and muscle regeneration. It is used to treat boils, sores, traumatic bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping. Oral: decoction, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan.

[taboo] "it is forbidden to take medicine for people with deficient cold constitution. "

[prescription selection] ① for sore swelling and pain: appropriate amount of twisted grass, Achyranthes bidentata, nanshelemiao. Mash and apply to the affected area.

② Treatment of traumatic bleeding: appropriate amount of twisted grass mashed, applied to the affected area.

③ Treatment of red swelling and pain: twisted grass leaves appropriate amount, borneol a little. Total tamping, external application of the affected eye. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)