("Compendium")

Branches and leaves of Anonymous Mosquito (Essential Herbs), White-backed Leaves (Records of Herbs Collected in Lingnan), Ginger Leaf (Records of Hunan Medicine), Pu Jiang Ye (Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Ginger Cotyledon (Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas).

The source is the leaves of Vitex negundo of Verbenaceae, and the plant morphology is detailed in "Vitex negundo".

Collect clean leaves before flowering in early summer, stack them firmly to make them sweat, pour them out and sun them until they are half dry, then stack them firmly, and then sun them until they are green and moist.

The dried leaves of medicinal materials are shriveled, gray-black or green-brown, with dark back and short hair; It is palmately compound, with 5 leaflets, or 3 leaflets occasionally, oblong to lanceolate, with a long tip and a wedge-shaped base; Petiole square hairy. The leaves are fragile and fragrant.

Location: Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

The leaves of Vitex negundo, a plant of the same genus, are equally used as medicine in Tibet.

Chemical constituents include vitexin, luteolin -7- glucoside, tetrahydroxy-methoxyflavone α-D- glucoside, 5- hydroxy-3,6,7,3 ",4"- pentamethoxyflavone, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, 5- hydroxyisophthalic acid, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, etc. It also contains vitexin and vitamin C.

Pharmacological action has anti-inflammatory effect on formaldehyde arthritis in rats.

Sexual taste is sweet and bitter, flat.

(1) "Grass and trees are convenient": "Cold."

② The Record of Collecting Medicine in Lingnan: "Sweet and bitter, flat."

③ Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas: "Bitter, cold."

Functions: relieving exterior syndrome, clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxicating. Treat common cold, heatstroke, vomiting and diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, jaundice, rheumatism, traumatic swelling and pain, sores and scabies.

① Life-saving and Suffering: "Treating nine orifices bleeding, mashing juice, mixing with wine, and taking two."

(2) Seeking the Origin of Materia Medica: "Washing tinea is vicious."

(3) Lingnan Herb Collection Record: "Treating infantile malnutrition. Bath in decoction, dissipate heat, eliminate sores and swelling. "Stir-fry rice with water and drink it to stop vomiting and diarrhea."

(4) Flora of Guangzhou: "Treating chronic dysentery, cholera, and swollen beriberi."

⑤ Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection: "Treating dysentery and bloody stranguria; Diuresis, treat edema and jaundice. "

⑥ Annals of Medicine in Nanning: "Pouring wine and frying it for external application can cure traumatic injury and rheumatism."

⑦ Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas: "Relieve exterior symptoms and sweat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoct soup, 0.5 ~ 2 Liang for fresh ones. External use: ramming or decocting with water.

Option 1 to cure a cold: one or two leaves of Vitex negundo, one or two roadside Vitex negundo, and two yuan each for onion and ginger. Decoct with water. (Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas)

② Treatment of heatstroke, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea: Vitex negundo leaves, Polygonum hydropiper, and Pinellia ternata. Bake and grind into fine powder, refine honey into pills, and soybean is big. Take it twice a day for two yuan each time. (Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas)

③ Treatment of abdominal pain due to malnutrition: fresh Vitex negundo leaves and fresh Polygonum hydropiper leaves (chopped), Evodia rutaecarpa San Qian (finely ground). It's extremely rotten, made into a strip spindle, and dried. When in use, take the medicine ingot for one yuan and grind it with cold water. (folk herbal remedies in Jiangxi)

④ Treatment of malaria: Vitex negundo leaves are six taels, and a bowl and a half of thick juice is taken by decocting water (half taken four hours before the attack and half taken two hours later). Cold malaria or infirmity is not applicable). (Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of foot decay (tinea pedis): Vitex negundo leaves, mashed on the grate. ("Compendium")

⑥ Treating poisonous snake bites, the whole body is red, swollen and foaming: Vitex negundo tender head, mashed juice coated on it, and the residue is bitten. ("Talking about Wild Weng's Trial of Folk Prescriptions")

⑦ Treatment of trauma, dog and centipede bites: two to four leaves of Vitex negundo, mashed, rubbed and applied to the affected area. (Handbook of Common Herbs in Rural Areas)

Clinical application ① Treatment of acute bacillary dysentery

Wash half a catty of fresh Vitex negundo leaves, add 800 ml of water, decoct for 1.5 hours, filter, and then concentrate100 ~120 ml. Adults take 30 ~ 40ml each time, three times a day. Fifty-four cases of acute bacillary dysentery were treated. The whole body symptoms were relieved, the number of stools decreased and the body temperature dropped to normal the next day after taking the medicine. Abdominal pain, acute diarrhea, and purulent blood mucus will disappear within 2 ~ 7 days respectively. 5. 1 day on average. Follow-up 18 cases after 50 days of cure, and no recurrence was found. It also has a certain effect on chronic bacillary dysentery or as a preventive medicine.

② Treatment of acute enteritis

Take 5 pieces of fresh young leaves of Vitex negundo (Vitex negundo) and decoct them, daily 1 dose; Or use the stem and leaf of Bujing 1 kg, decoct it into 7500ml, and take it150ml daily. More than 40 cases were treated, and they were basically controlled on the second day after taking the medicine. In summer, boiling water instead of tea can prevent enteritis.

Remind you: Vitex negundo leaves, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.