greater celandine

Chinese name

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[synonyms] Di, Niu Jinhua (plant name Collection), Tu Huanglian (northeast medicinal plant records), babujin, duanchangcao, Shan (Liaoning Economic Plant records), Cao (Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine records), Shan Huanglian (Liaoning commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual), pseudo Huanglian (northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual), xiaoyerenxuecao (Shaanxi traditional Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant with flowers of Chelidonium majus.

[plant morphology] Chelidonium majus

Perennial herbs. Taproot conical, yellowish brown. The stem is erect, 30-100cm high, with many branches, white powder, sparse white slender pubescence, and yellow milk when broken. Leaves alternate, 1-2 odd pinnate, basal leaves 10-15 cm long, 2-5 pairs of complete lobes, irregularly deeply lobed, margin of deep lobes irregularly notched, apical lobes broadly obovate, base cuneate and downward, upper part nearly glabrous, lower part sparsely pubescent, powdery; cauline leaves are the same as basal leaves. Flowers several, subumbelliform, bracts small, ovate, ca. 1.5 mm long, petiole filiform, pubescent; sepals 2, caducous, elliptic, sparsely pilose outside; petals 4, yellow, ovoid, ca. 9 mm long; stamens numerous, filaments yellow; pistils 1, glabrous, style short. Capsule strip cylindrical, 3.5 cm long. Seeds numerous, ovate, small, dark brown. Glossy and reticulated. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruit period is from June to August.

Growing on hillside or valley, forest edge and grassland. Distributed in Northeast, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places.

The root of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

In addition, there are also Chelidonium grandiflorum with large flowers and wide ovate petals, 1.3-1.5 cm in length. It is distributed all over the northeast.

[collection] in May to July, the aerial parts were harvested and dried in a ventilated place.

[chemical] fresh plants had a strong orange yellow emulsion, containing 0.7% or 0.97 to 1.87% alkaloids in the emulsion. Among them, chelerythrine 41%, protoopioid 22%, haemagglutinine 17%, allocryptopinine 9%, haemagglutinine 5%, chelerythrine 3%, sanguinarine 1.5%, chickpea 0.1%, hydroxychelerythrine, namely oxychelerythrine, methoxychelerythrine, cryptopinine, chelerythrine, chelerythrine, homochelerythrine, hydroxysanguinarine, namely oxysanguinarine. In addition to alkaloids, it also contains cheleric acid, malic acid, citric acid, cholic acid, methylamine, histamine, tyramine, saponin, flavonol, cheleryl alcohol, and cardiotonin, with the highest content at flowering stage.

The content of alkaloids in roots is 1.33% or 1.90-4.14%. Some of them are the same as those in aerial parts. In addition, they contain berberine, pyrophylline, chelerythrine, chelerythrine, spinasterol, a small amount of ergosterol and rubber 0.118%.

The content of flavonoids and vitamin C in leaves was 1.43%. The content of vitamin C was the highest at the flowering stage (834 mg) and the lowest at the fruit ripening stage (231 mg%).

The content of flavonoids in flowers was 2.10%.

The fruit contains a lot of choline, chelerine and tetrahydrocoptidine. The seed contains 40% fatty oil and coptidine. The germinated seeds contained chelerythrine and berberine.

[flavor] bitter, pungent, slightly warm, toxic.

① "Saving famine Materia Medica": it tastes bitter and slightly spicy. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and poisonous. "

③ "Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "bitter taste, cold nature, toxic. "

[function indications] analgesia, cough, diuresis and detoxification. Treatment of gastrointestinal pain, jaundice, edema, scabies swelling, snakebite.

① "Treatment of gastrointestinal pain and ulcer. External use for scabies medicine and detumescence medicine, with raw juice coating. "

② "Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "heart fire, fever, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory sterilization, analgesia and sedation. "

③ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "treat liver cirrhosis, skin tuberculosis, beriberi, gallbladder disease and edema jaundice. "

④ "Treatment of snakebite, pain and swelling. "

⑤ "Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "it has the functions of analgesia, relieving cough, sterilization, diuresis and detoxification. Treatment of acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, cirrhosis ascites. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 0.5 ~ 2 yuan. External use: mash juice and spread it.

[selection] 1. Treatment of edema and jaundice: Chelidonium majus,,,, root,. Take it in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of gastrointestinal pain: Chelidonium, cuttlefish bone, Zhejiang, dannanxing, wax gourd kernel. Take it in water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of tinea: fresh Chelidonium with 50% alcohol immersion, rub the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Liaoning)

④ Treatment of sore swelling: fresh Chelidonium, mashed and applied to the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Liaoning)

⑤ Treatment of stomachache, diarrhea, abdominal pain, cough: white Chelidonium five to two money, decoction. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)

⑥ Treatment of paddy field dermatitis, poisonous insect bite, scabies: external application of Chelidonium Chelidonium mashed or made into extract applied to the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)

[clinical application] 1

Take the whole herb of Chelidonium Chelidonii to make 100% syrup, 5-8 ml each time for children within 6 months, 8-10 ml for children from 6 months to 1 year old, 10-15 ml for children from 1 to 3 years old, 15-29 ml for children from 3 to 6 years old, 20-30 ml for children over 6 years old, 3 times a day, before meals. The simple type was taken for 8 days and the mixed type for 12 days. In 500 cases, 355 cases were cured, 116 cases were improved, and the effective rate was 94.2%. The effect of simple type is better than that of mixed type.

② Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take the whole plant of Chelidonium Chelidonii 1 jin, raw 1 liang, add water to fry 3 times, mix and concentrate the solution to make every 100 ml contain about 4 yuan of crude medicine, 3 times a day, 30 ml each time. 34 cases were treated, 7 cases were controlled and 15 cases were markedly effective. It can also be made into Extract Tablets (each tablet contains 0.5g of extract), 4 tablets each, 3 times a day. The curative effect is similar to that of decoction. The effect of mature Chelidonium majus seems to be better, otherwise it is worse, and it is easy to produce side effects.

③ Treatment of young patients with verruca plana

Take fresh whole grass to press juice, wipe the affected area with cotton ball dipped in juice, 3 times a day, 5-15 minutes each time, until recovery. 18 cases were treated, 4 cases were cured, 3 cases were markedly effective, 4 cases were effective, 5 cases were unknown. Half of the patients had different degrees of irritation symptoms, such as pain and itching.

④ Used as an analgesic and antispasmodic agent

Take Chelidonium Chelidonii and the same amount, make thousand extract powder, take 3 times a day, 1-2g each time. It can relieve the pain caused by gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm.

Chinese PinYin : Bai Qu Cai