Walking Horse

Walking Horse

(commonly used folk herbs in Guangxi)

[synonym] diaozhonghuang (flora of Guangzhou), shuimatoi, chufengqian (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Guangxi), Niuer Sanren, feishanhu, Yanger Sanren (Guangdong Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or leaf of the Compositae plant.

[plant morphology] six eared bell

Perennial herbs. Stem erect, much branched, 0.8-1.5 m high, pilose. Leaf blade ovate or obovate, 8-14 cm long, sometimes harp shaped, apex acuminate, base extended long stalks, margin coarsely toothed, both sides pubescent. The inflorescences are numerous, ovoid, 6-7mm long and 5-12mm wide, slightly drooping, loosely clustered and racemose, arranged on the branches, forming a panicle of broad pointed tower shape, 15-30cm long; the involucre is green and purple, pilose; the receptacle is short hairy; the flowers are yellow, all tubular flowers, female flowers in the periphery and bisexual flowers in the middle. Achenes small, terete, slightly short hairy, 10 angled, corolla white. Or light brown. The flowering period is from late spring to autumn.

It grows in wet and shady places of gardens or on open grassland. It is distributed in Southwest China, Guangdong and Guangxi.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] ① Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs: "pungent, smooth, fragrant, non-toxic. "

② Guangzhou Air Force "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "bitter taste slightly spicy, warm nature. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and dampness and dredge channels and collaterals. Treatment of women's head wind pain, rheumatic arthralgia, traumatic injury.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of traumatic swelling and pain. "

② "Guangxi Folk commonly used herbs": "for women postpartum bone pain, headache, rheumatism, bone pain, swelling and pain. "

③ "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging meridians and activating collaterals. "

④ "Expelling wind and dampness, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, relieving pain and relieving pain" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou air force. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, headache, sprain, snakebite, eczema, dermatitis, carbuncle, furuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping or decoction.

[prescription selection] ① for women's head wind pain: two pairs of walking horse wind, the same egg pot, red wine.

② Treatment of postpartum joint pain: fresh walk horse wind, fresh gale Artemisia each amount, a total of mash, stir fry with wine, apply the affected area; or water pot, wash the affected area.

③ Treatment of traumatic swelling and pain: zoumafeng, Eupatorium adenophorum, cortex thunbergii and yingbupu are appropriate, mashed together, fried with wine and applied to the affected area. (1) common folk herbs in Guangxi

④ Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: appropriate amount of zoumafeng, dafengai and daliwang, mashed together, fried with wine, applied to the affected area; or fried with water, washed the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)