Panax notoginseng

Panax notoginseng

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] zhugenshen, zhujieqi, niuweiqi (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the rhizome of Liliaceae.

[plant morphology] arrow, also known as arrow, evergreen.

Perennial evergreen herbs. The rhizome is cylindrical with distinct nodes. Leaves basal, sessile, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 20-50 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, apex obtuse, entire, generally shorter in the lower part, extra long in the middle, dark green when old. The flower stems are drawn out from the leaves, the flowers are densely integrated into spikes, with 1 leaflike involucre; each flower has 1 bracteole, triangular or round, white, flowers almost sessile; perianth is light yellow white, lobes are 6, round, the lower part is connected into a disc; stamen 6, filaments are very short, anthers are 2-locular, longitudinal, introverted, elliptic, white, pollen red; pistil 1, stigma 3-lobed, ovary superior. Berry red, ca. 7 mm in diam., seed 1, round, black. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is from February to March next year.

Born in the valley forest near the water. It is distributed in the middle and southwest of China.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round. Remove fibrous roots and leaves, and take rhizomes to dry in the sun.

[medicinal material] the rhizome is flat cylindrical, slightly twisted, 10-15 cm long, about 1 cm in diameter, with obvious nodes, slightly expanded, buds and membranous scalelike leaves at nodes, and short internodes. The surface is yellowish brown or yellowish green with wrinkles. The section is yellowish white and fine granular. No gas, bitter taste.

Produced in Shaanxi and Sichuan.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "the taste is sweet and slightly bitter, and the nature is cold. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, purging fire, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. It can be used to treat labor heat, cough, rheumatic arthralgia, irregular menstruation and traumatic injury.

① Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "in addition to rheumatism, clearing heat and purging fire, analgesia and hemostasis, regulating menstruation and activating blood circulation, nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency. It is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, lumbocrural pain, traumatic injury, labor injury, irregular menstruation, bone steaming and labor heat. "

② Chengdu Chinese herbal medicine: "Yiqi Huoxue, Qingfei, Jiedu. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan; or powder, 0.5-1 yuan; or wine. External use: tamping.

[selection] bone steaming heat, waist and leg pain: bamboo root seven, Changchun seven, cinnabar seven each five dollars, Achyranthes bidentata, papaya each three money, taro seven, and the grass of each stretch of two yuan, Prunella vulgaris one or two, Baijiu Baijin. Wine making clothes. One glass at a time. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

② Treatment of deficiency cough: oxtail seven stewed pig heart and lung service. (Chengdu Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of snake and dog injuries: tamping fresh roots or leaves of Radix Notoginseng. (Chengdu Chinese herbal medicine)