Tu Jingjie is a famous Chinese medicine practitioner.
Alias goose foot grass, smelly grass and oil grass.
Alias HerbaChenopodiiAmbrosioidis
The dried whole grass with ears comes from Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae plants.
Plant morphology annual or perennial erect herbs, 50 ~ 80 cm high, with strong smell. The stems are erect, angular and multi-branched. Be glandular hairy or glabrous. Simple leaves alternate with short petioles; Leaves lanceolate to oblong, 3 ~ 16 cm long and 5 cm wide, with short or obtuse apex. The lower leaf has irregular blunt teeth or waves, while the upper leaf is small, linear or linear, with the whole edge, green at the top and glandular spots at the bottom, which has a special fragrance when rubbed. Spikes axillary, branched or unbranched. Flowers are small, green, bisexual or female. 3 ~ 5 flowers clustered in the upper leaf axils; Perianth 5-lobed, fruit usually closed; Stamens 5; Style inconspicuous, stigma usually 3, protruding from perianth. Utricle oblate, completely enclosed in perianth. Seeds transverse or oblique black or dark red, smooth and shiny. The flowering period is August-September, and the fruiting period is 9-65438+1October.
The origin is distributed in wilderness, roadside, river bank and stream. It is distributed in East China, South China, Southwest China and other places, and is often cultivated in northern China.
Harvesting and processing: the whole grass is harvested from late August to late September, spread in a ventilated place, or tied and hung in a cool place to avoid sun and rain.
Characteristics of medicinal materials This product is a green stem with fruit ears. The lower part of the stem is cylindrical and smooth, and the upper part is square with longitudinal grooves and hairs. Most of the lower leaves fall off, leaving only linear lanceolate bracts at the tip of the stem. The fruit is oblate, green or yellowish green, with a diameter of about 1 ~ 1.5 mm, surrounded by a thin layer of cystic persistent calyx, and the fruit is brownish black or reddish black and shiny.
The taste is slightly warm, bitter and pungent. Enter lung meridian and bladder meridian.
Efficacy and function: expelling wind and removing dampness, killing insects and relieving itching, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Belonging to insecticidal and antipruritic drugs.
Clinical application: decoction, 3 ~ 9g, fresh product 15 ~ 24g, or pill or powder. External use: appropriate amount, decocted in water or mashed. Indications: hookworm disease, ascariasis, ascariasis, head lice, skin eczema, scabies, rheumatic joint pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, aphtha, sore throat, traumatic injury and snake bite.
Pharmacological research has antibacterial and anthelmintic effects. Anti-plasmodium.
Chemical composition This product contains rosin carvone, quinoxalactone, quinoxaside, trans cinnamic acid, etc.
Taboos should not be taken frequently, for a long time or on an empty stomach, and laxatives should not be used before taking. Pregnant women and those with renal, cardiac and hepatic insufficiency or digestive tract ulcer are prohibited.
Related prescription
(1) scab after treatment of children's pox: whole grass of Chenopodium ambrosioides, decoction and external washing. (Qingdao Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)
② Treatment of lower limb ulceration: Schizonepeta tenuifolia, decocting in water, and washing the affected area. (Miao Medicine Collection)
③ Treatment of biliary ascariasis: 6 grams of fresh leaves of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 65,438+05 grams of Vitex negundo and Elsholtzia Elsholtzia, and 30 grams of Bidens bipinnata. Decoct with water. (Fujian Pharmacology)
④ Treatment of head lice: Chenopodium ambrosioides, mashed and coated with tea oil. (Hunan Pharmacology)
⑤ Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia: fresh root of Chenopodium ambrosioides 15g. Boil. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)
⑥ Treatment of eczema: Fresh whole grass of Chenopodium ambrosioides is suitable. Decoct with water and wash the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)
⑦ Treatment of scrotal eczema: Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Schisandra chinensis, Lobelia chinensis. Mash, take juice or decoction to wash the affected area. (Fujian Pharmacology)
8 Treatment of poisonous snake bites: fresh leaves of Chenopodium ambrosioides. Mash it into mud and apply it to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)
Schizonepeta tenuifolia
1, relieving exterior syndrome and expelling wind
Although Schizonepeta tenuifolia is warm and spicy, it is warm but not dry, and its sex is relatively peaceful. It can dispel wind-cold and wind-heat, and has the effects of relieving fever and cooling exterior, without wind, cold and heat. Can be used for colds, fever, stuffy nose and runny nose.
2, penetrating rash and relieving itching
Can be used for treating urticaria, rubella and measles, and can accelerate the regression of pathological changes and relieve itching. Common compatibility of mint and Saposhnikovia divaricata (both for oral administration and external washing).
3. Eliminate sores
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has the effect of eliminating sores, and can be used for carbuncle swelling, scabies and scrofula.
4. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic
Benzoprofuran derivatives contained in Schizonepeta tenuifolia have a strong inhibitory effect on 3-α hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, which can promote the production of more cortical cholesterol and play an anti-inflammatory and analgesic role.
5, convergence hemostasis
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has hemostatic effect. The experiment showed that the charred Schizonepeta tenuifolia could shorten the bleeding and coagulation time. It can be used to treat bleeding, using Schizonepeta charcoal to stop bleeding, and using other hemostatic drugs to stop bleeding, for example, using Sophora japonica charcoal to treat hematochezia and using hair to treat epistaxis.
6, anti-allergic
Flavonoids such as hesperidin contained in Schizonepeta tenuifolia have inhibitory effect on lipoxygenase which can cause allergic reaction, so Schizonepeta tenuifolia has antiallergic and antiasthmatic effects, and can be used to treat allergic immune diseases such as allergic dermatitis, urticaria and skin itching.
7. Anti-aging
Hesperidin in Schizonepeta tenuifolia can inhibit oxidase, reduce oxygen free radicals produced by lipid peroxidation of biofilm, play an anti-aging role, and can also prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, tumors and other senile diseases.
8, antibacterial
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has certain antibacterial and anticancer effects, which can inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and its decoction has obvious inhibitory effect on intestinal muscle contraction.