(Essentials of Raw Herbs)

Different names: heliotrope, Chicken Gall Sticks (Compendium), Bupleurum chinense, Majia Baixing (Essentials of Raw Herbs), Grass soles (Records of Herbs Picking in Lingnan), Gallbladder Head, Ground Gallbladder (Flora of Guangzhou), Cattle Nose, Iron Candlestick, Ground Hanging, Loquat and Cattle Nose (Flora of Guangzhou)

The source is the whole grass of Hedyotis paniculata, a compositae plant.

Plant-like felwort

Perennial erect herb, 30 ~ 60 cm high. Sometimes all the coarse hairs are covered with white. The stem is bifurcated, and the branches are few, hard and rough. Most of the single leaves are basal, spoon-shaped or oblong, oblanceolate, 5 ~15cm long and 2 ~ 4.5cm wide, with a tapering base, a blunt or short tip at the apex and a slightly obtuse serration at the edge: the stem leaves are few and thin, the petiole is 5 ~15mm long, and the base is enlarged to hold the stem, or it is nearly sessile. The head has about 4 small flowers, which are born at the top of the branch; There are usually 3 leaflike bracts, the bracts are oval or oblong, and the length is1~1.5 cm; There are many heads in each bouquet, dense; The total bract is 8 ~10 mm long; Receptacle glabrous; The florets are all tubular, bisexual, lavender, 7 ~ 9 mm long, 4-lobed at the apex, one side cracked, and the lobes slightly spread; Stamens 4 ~ 5, slightly protruding outside the tube; Ovary inferior, 1 room. Achenes are angular, with long bristles 4 ~ 6 at the top. Flowering period is August ~1February. Fruiting period 1 1 month to February of the following year.

It grows in low grass such as valleys, villages and roadsides, wasteland and cultivated land. Distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

The root of this plant (the root of Sophora alopecuroides) is also used for medicine, and another article is detailed.

Collect in late summer, and dry in the sun.

The herb is dry, the rhizome is short and thick, the length is1~ 2 cm, and the thickness is about 0.5 cm, and it is densely covered with white fluff; Rooted leaves are mostly shriveled, yellow-green, spoon-shaped or oblong-oblanceolate, sparsely covered with long white hair and slightly soft paper. The stem is cylindrical, 2 ~ 3 mm thick, often cut off, hollow in section, with few and small cauline leaves. Sometimes the stem ends have flower heads, and the corolla often falls off. It is better to have more leaves and no flowers.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places.

The whole grass of the same plant, Hedyotis diffusa, can also be used as Hedyotis paniculata. It is characterized by many branches, hairy stems, oval or oblong leaves and white flowers.

Chemical constituents of Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae contain episomal terpineol, hops fatty alcohol, stigmasterol, behenyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol and potassium chloride. It also contains hops fatty alcohol acetate, deoxycholin and isodeoxycholin, and luteolin -7- glucoside is isolated from its flowers.

Pharmacological Action Antibacterial Action In vitro antibacterial test (paper method, each paper contains about 30 mg of crude drug) was carried out by using Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae injection (ethanol extract after water decoction and concentration, and then lead acetate was added to remove precipitation), which has antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. When 15 ml contains crude drug18 ~ 24 g, it also has antibacterial effect on Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, typhoid Bacillus, Shigella dysenteriae and Staphylococcus aureus.

Bitter and bitter, cold.

① Compendium: "Bitter taste."

② Essentials of Raw Herbs: "pungent in taste and flat in nature."

③ Annals of Medicine in Nanning: "Bitter, cold and non-toxic."

④ Minnan Folk Herbs: "Bitter, slightly cold, nontoxic."

Meridian tropism ① Quanzhou Materia Medica: "Entering the lung and liver."

② Mindong Materia Medica: "Entering the lung, spleen and liver."

Functions are mainly used to cool blood, clear heat, promote diuresis and detoxify. Treat epistaxis, jaundice, gonorrhea, beriberi, edema, carbuncle, furuncle and snake bite.

① "Essentials of Raw Herbs": "Dispel sores, cool blood, disinfect and remove phlegm. "It can also stop bleeding if you manage the rat bite and snake wound." Treat blood due to intestinal wind. "

(2) Addendum to Compendium: "Leaf: It can be pasted with heat toxic sore."

③ Flora of Guangzhou: "Curing damp-heat."

④ Fujian Folk Herbs: "Diuretic and bloating."

⑤ Annals of Medicine in Nanning: "Leaves: application of heat toxic sores, breast carbuncle and traumatic injury."

⑥ Records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Clearing away heat and toxic materials. "To cure malnutrition, qi and fever, pound and apply hot sores, decoct soup, smoke and wash, and take orally to treat the upper membrane of eyes."

⑦ "Mindong Materia Medica": "Warming the spleen and promoting diuresis, relaxing the middle and relieving qi. Treat edema, abdominal distension, cough, malnutrition and hernia. "

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 RMB (fresh1~ 2 Liang): or mashed juice. External use: tamping or decocting in water for fumigation and washing.

It is advisable to avoid ① Nanning Pharmacology: "Those who are weak should avoid it."

② Annals of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Cold syndrome should not be used."

③ Quanzhou Materia Medica: "Pregnant women should use it with caution."

Prescription ① Treatment of epistaxis: gallbladder head and pig liver are appropriate. Take the same decoction for three to four times.

② Treatment of yang jaundice: the head of gall bladder is washed with roots and leaves, and the fresh ones are four to six. Cook meat for four or five days.

③ Treatment of abdominal distension: two or two bitter gall bladder. Decoct water twice in the morning and evening, or stew with pork. (① The Annals of Lingnan Herbs are published below)

4 treatment of urinary incontinence: five yuan to one or two for the grass. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of beriberi: Bitter gall grass is one to two, and tofu is two to four. Add boiling water to stew. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

⑥ Treatment of heat drench: three or two fresh liverworts, four or two lean pork, and a little salt. Decoct with water, remove residues, and take it in four times. (folk herbal remedies in Jiangxi)

⑦ Treating tonsillitis and pharyngolaryngitis: Bitter gall and two dollars. Soak in 300 ml of hot water for half an hour and take orally, one dose a day. Can also be made into tablet for oral administration. (Guangxi "Prescription Collection of New Medical Treatment of Chinese Herbal Medicine")

⑧ Treat swelling and toxin under the armpit, disperse swelling and relieve pain, and treat all swelling and toxin: heliotrope pounded it with salt and vinegar. ("Medical Forest Collection")

⑨ Treatment of carbuncle swelling: a fresh herb of Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae is decocted in water, and the affected area is fumigated and washed. The whole herb of Hedyotis bidentata is seven yuan, and the wine and water are half decocted and taken. (folk herbal remedies in Jiangxi)

⑩ Treatment refers to furuncle and mammary furuncle: appropriate amount of fresh Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae, mash it with fermented grains of sweet wine as appropriate, and apply it to the affected area. (folk herbal remedies in Jiangxi)

⑾ Treatment of filariasis and lymphangitis: one or two herbs. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑿ Treatment of snake wound: heliotrope and the golden boiling grass are put into salt and pounded. (Compendium)

[13] Treatment of pterygium: 10 Jin of bitter gall, 20 Jin of vinegar and 1 Jin of copper. First, burn the copper red, immediately put it in vinegar, take it out and burn it red, then put it in vinegar, and repeat this for dozens of times, then soak the fresh bitter gall in vinegar for one month, filter it, and use it for eye drops (if it feels * * *, it will return to normal after half an hour). (Guangxi "Prescription Collection of New Medical Treatment of Chinese Herbal Medicine")

Clinical application ① Treatment of acute inflammation

Make Radix Hedyotidis Diffusae into injection, containing 6 grams of crude drug per 2 ml, and inject it intramuscularly 2-3 times a day, 2-4 ml each time. * * * Observation 1 12 cases, including 29 cases of pneumonia, 24 cases of upper respiratory tract inflammation, 8 cases of lymphadenitis 12 cases of typhoid12 cases, 9 cases of emphysema complicated with infection 10 cases, 9 cases of acute hepatitis, 8 cases of bronchitis. Results 68 cases were cured and improved (antibiotics were used after symptoms improved; Or those who were cured by this medicine after using antibiotics first without obvious curative effect), 6 cases were ineffective. No obvious side effects were found.

② Treatment of oral eruption

Dried Radix Hedyotidis Diffusae 1 two, decocted in water, daily 1 dose. After treatment, 22 cases were cured, 18 cases, and the average cure time was 3 days. No recurrence was observed for 3 months. Side effects: Abdominal discomfort after individual taking. Old people and children should use it with caution.

Remind you: Bitter gall this Chinese herbal medicine comes from the internet, please follow the doctor's advice before using it.