Gold brush handle

Gold brush handle

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole body of pistil.

[plant morphology] pistil

Parasitic lichen plants. All of them are coral like, with many branches. The top branch is slender, with 2-3 branches. The base is gray white, and the top is light yellow or gray white. Pollen buds are rare. The sporophores are oval and colorless.

At the base of the trunk. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] harvest from June to July, remove impurities and dry in the sun.

[chemical constituents] it contains prototunic acid fumarate and usnic acid.

[taste] bitter, flat.

[function indications] sedation, anti-inflammatory, analgesic. Treatment of epilepsy, schizophrenia, neurasthenia, dizziness.

[selection] ① for epilepsy and schizophrenia: four for golden brush handle and five for Taibai tea.

② Treatment head vertigo: Golden brush, deer holding grass, sunflower each three money, Ligusticum two money. Take it in water. (the following is Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)