Cowpea root

Cowpea root

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[source] it is the root of cowpea, a leguminous plant.

Functions and indications: invigorate the spleen, replenish qi and eliminate food

Treatment of food, spleen and stomach weakness, drenching turbid, hemorrhoids blood, sores.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "mash and apply the sores. Root, stem burn ash, oil on the rags, but also long muscle. "

② Classified herbal medicine nature: "treat five kinds of gonorrhea, eliminate food accumulation. "

③ Chongqing herbal medicine: "invigorate the spleen and replenish qi. Treatment of spleen and stomach weakness, leucorrhea, hemorrhoids bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] for internal use: decoction, fresh use 2-3 Liang; or stewed meat, external use: tamping or burning storage, grinding and mixing.

[selected formula] ① for children with weak spleen and stomach and loss of appetite: stewed pork with cowpea root and chicken dung vine. (Chengdu Manual of common herbal medicine treatment)

② Treatment of women's leucorrhea, men's turbid: cowpea root half Jin, vine root half Jin. Stewed meat or chicken. (Chongqing herbal medicine)