Gold Earrings

Gold Earrings

(Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Asarum thunbergii (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), asarum longiflorum, asarum macrophyllum, and shancigu macrophyllum (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), and yikuawa (new selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Aristolochiaceae.

[plant morphology] gold earrings

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is short, the fibrous root is long and thin, grayish yellow. Leaves basal, ovate triangular or sagittate, apex acuminate, base lobed. Entire, glabrous above, glabrous below. Flowers purplish red, solitary, drawn from petioles, near the ground, branches as long as or longer than corolla; perianth one ring, neat, campanulate, 3-lobed, persistent; stamens 12, arranged in 2 rings, separated or nearly separated, filaments short. Capsule subglobose, irregularly dehiscent at maturity. It blooms in spring.

It was born in the shady and wet place under the forest of mountains and streams. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoid glycosides, amino acids, sugars and volatile oil.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① "Sweet and light" in the collection of herbs in the south of the Five Ridges. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "Xin, Wen. "

③ New selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi: "it is pungent, slightly bitter, warm and has little poison. "

[function indications] dispersing cold and relieving cough. Relieving asthma and relieving pain. Treatment of cold cough, asthma, abdominal pain, caries pain, traumatic injury.

① Lingnan caiyao Lu: "it can not only regulate Dieda, cure poisonous snake, but also generate muscle and remove decay. "

② "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "dispelling wind and dispersing cold, relieving asthma and cough, promoting qi to relieve pain, detoxifying and detumescence. Treatment of cold cough, bronchial asthma, abdominal pain, caries pain, snakebite, tumefaction pain. "

③ New selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi. Treatment of infantile convulsions. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 coin; or into pills, powder. External use: tamping or rubbing with ground wine.

[selection] treatment of caries pain: grind the root of gold earring and fill the caries. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)