Half flag

Half flag

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonym] liquorice fern (flora of Guangzhou), liquorice Pteridophyte (flora of China, pteridophytes), lobelia and Pteridophyte (flora of Guangxi medicine), lobelia (flora of Nanning City), lobelia (flora of Guizhou Province), pteridophyte (flora of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province), unilateral flag and Lobelia (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army) .

[source] it is the whole grass with roots of pteridiaceae.

[plant morphology] banbianqi

Perennial herbs, 30-100 cm high. Rhizome short, creeping, densely covered with narrow lanceolate, dark brown scales. Its petiole is stout, erect, 20-50 cm long, dark brown, or black near the base, bright, naked, and the same as the leaf axis; its leaves are nearly leathery, glabrous on both sides, ovate lanceolate, 15-50 cm long and 10-25 cm wide; it is pinnately divided once, the upper part is pinnately divided to the leaf axis, the lobes are linear or elliptic, straight or falcate, entire, and the base extends downward; the lower part is about 2 / 3 There are 4-8 pairs of nearly opposite semipinnate pinnae, sparsely distributed, apically long pointed, entire, upper margin undivided, lower margin deeply divided to midrib, lobes linear or falcate, base extending downward; veins distinct, solitary or branched. The sporangia are linear and arranged continuously on the leaf margin. The ascospore cover is linear and membranous.

It grows in shady wetland such as forest, stream or wall. It is distributed in East China, South China, Southwest China and Taiwan.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, washed and dried in the sun.

[flavor] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "pungent, cool. "

Functions and indications: hemostasis, myogenesis, detoxification and detumescence. Treatment of hematemesis, traumatic bleeding, hair back, sores, injuries, eye red swelling and pain.

① "If the snake bites, you can mash the leaves and apply a piece of sugar. You can cure the sores and boils and wash them with boiling water. "

② "Drug records of Nanning city": "hemostasis, myogenesis, detumescence and pain relief. It is used to treat falls, dysentery, hair back and snake injury. "

③ "Zhejiang Tianmu yam Zhi": rhizome, decocting, treating eye red swelling and pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping, grinding and sprinkling, or frying and washing.

[selection] ① stop hematemesis: hold half of the flag, mash it, and drink with rice swill.

② Hemostasis burying mouth: raw half flag smash apply or dry powder sprinkle knife and axe wound.

③ For Makou: two tender leaves of banbianqi and one yellow sugar. Mash and apply. (1) the following prescriptions are published in Guangxi Medical Plant atlas.)

④ Treatment of stroke: half wind medicine, Acorus tatarinowii, Cassia obtusifolia each three money, fried water service. (Guizhou folk medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Ban Bian Qi