Hyacinth

Hyacinth

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonym] mussel flower (flora of Guangzhou), water chestnut flower and red mussel orchid (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army).

[source] it is the bract bearing inflorescence of Eupatorium purpureum. For the plant morphology, please refer to "benglan leaf".

[collection] harvest in summer and dry in the sun, or steam for 10 minutes before drying.

[medicinal materials] the dried inflorescences are all boat shaped or fan-shaped, about 2 cm high and 5-6 cm long. The remaining peduncle is about 5-10 mm long. Bracts 2, mussel shaped, brown, papery, apex beak pointed, ca. 3 cm long, with veins arranged radially from base. There are many flowers in the bracts, usually oval buds; the petiole is slender, and there are membranous bracts at the base of the petiole, which are tea brown, and some have capsule. The quality is slightly flexible. It is slightly fragrant and tasteless. It is better to be dry and flowers are not open.

It is produced in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[chemical constituents] the flower contains flavonoid glycosides and organic acids.

Sweet and cool.

① "Nanning medicine annals": "flat, slightly pungent and astringent. "

② Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "sweet, light, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing lung and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Treatment of lung heat dry cough, hematemesis, bleeding, dysentery, hematochezia.

① Lingnan medicine collection record: "it is used to treat hematochezia, hemoptysis and pork decoction. For the treatment of dysentery, Decoction and drink. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine; clearing blood, relieving heat, stopping bleeding and treating dysentery. "

③ "Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine" II: "cough, to phlegm fire. It can cure tuberculosis, hematemesis and phlegm fire. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh).

[selected prescription] for cold, cough, expectoration with blood, pertussis, epistaxis, bacillary dysentery: 20 to 30 dried mussels. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)