Zijinlian

Zijinlian

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonyms] trochanter Lotus (Guizhou herbal medicine), zijinbiao (Guizhou medicine and plant catalogue), and moving steamer (Chinese herbal medicine communication (2): 431971).

[source] it is the root of Liliaceae.

[plant morphology] Trollius violaceus

Perennial herbs. Rhizome short, nodular, with many branched roots. The stem is erect or inclined, with edges and white powder in the ditch. Leaf blade rhomboid ovate, 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, decurrent, entire, with long yellow hairs on both sides. Flowers terminal and axillary, flower bundles arranged into a head, bracts or bracteoles; calyx tubular, 5-lobed, membranous, edge purple; corolla high footed butterfly, lobes 5, blue; stamens inserted on corolla tube. Capsule dehiscent.

Born in the shade by the road. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet.

The root of Stylosanthes glauca (also known as blue snowflake) is also used for medicine with the same effect.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[chemical composition] a reddish brown needle like crystal is isolated from the root, which is a quinone containing phenolic group. It can relax the spasm of smooth muscle and inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, octococcus and Bacillus subtilis in vitro.

Warm in nature and sweet in taste.

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, removing blood stasis and generating new blood.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of traumatic brain injury: five coins for trochanter lotus. Wine making clothes.

② Jiegu: trochanter lotus and cilaobaogen are equally divided. Pound down the affected area. (the following is Guizhou herbal medicine)

[clinical application] used for spasmolysis and pain relief

Take the root of the steamer to extract the active ingredients, add 90% ethanol to saturation, and each ml contains about 10 ml of the extracted crystal. Take 2-3ml in case of pain, mixed with warm boiled water, no more than 3-4 times a day. The root of steamer can also be finely cut and soaked in 75% alcohol for 7 days, taking 5-10 ml of soaking solution each time, but the effect is slightly poor. 184 patients with stomach, intestines and biliary tract diseases, including biliary ascariasis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, intestinal ascariasis, biliary postoperative syndrome and pancreatitis, were observed for pain relief. The curative effect was 86%, and the average effective time was 18.7 minutes. Pharmacological experiments showed that the drug had similar effect to atropine, but the obvious effect was slow, but there was no side effect of atropine.