Guigui, species Latin name D. Versipoellis (Hance) M. Cheng , the species is a poisonous plant included in the Chinese Plant Atlas database, and its toxicity is Roots and rhizomes contain onychotoxin, dehydrogenated onychotoxin. Rhizoma Dysosmae Versipellis (Eng) Common Dysosma Rhizome [Alias] Octopus lotus, octopus crow. [Source] The rhizome of Dysosma versiPcllis (Hance.M.Cheng), family Berberidaceae. [Botanical Form] Perennial herb, 10-17 cm tall, with a stout, nodding, little-branched rhizome. Cauline leaves often 2, peltate, suborbicular, 16-22cm long, l2-l9cm wide, 8-9-lobed, lobes margined with leafy teeth; petiole 10-l5cm long. 5-8 flowers inserted above petiole near blade, pendulous, pedicel up to 2.8cm long; sepals 6; petals 6, purple-red; stamens 6; pistil 1, ovary superior. Berry subglobose. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Oct. Born in shady moist places under mixed woods in valleys and mountain slopes. Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, and Jiangxi. [Harvested in summer and fall, washed, dried or used fresh. [Characteristics] The rhizomes are transversely nodular, 2-3 cm long, about 5 mm in diameter, with a brown surface. The surface is brown. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, and the section is light yellow. Slight gas, bitter flavor. [Chemical constituents] Roots and rhizomes contain podophyllotoxin, deoxy-podophyllotoxin, isopicropodophyllone, hyperin, etc. [Chemical constituents] Roots and rhizomes contain podophyllotoxin, deoxy-podophyllotoxin, isopicropodophyllone, and hyperin. [Sex and flavor] Warm, bitter, pungent; toxic. [Functions and Indications] Clearing heat and removing toxins, resolving phlegm and dispersing lumps, expelling phlegm and subduing swellings. It is used in treating carbuncle, furuncle, scrofula, sore throat, bruises, and poisonous snake bites. Dosage: 3-9g. Synonyms: Nine Sayings, Heavenly Sayings, Ghost Medicine, Antidote, Jennifer Rhinoceros, Horse Eye Poisonous Duke, Harmful Motherwort, Shy Smallpox, Warlock's Lawn Grass, Berry Fields Grass, One-footed Lotus, One Lotus Grass, Mountain Lotus Leaf, Dry Lotus, Octagonal Plate, Tang Po Mirror. Odor: (Root) Pungent, warm, poisonous. Indications: 1. The child dies in the womb (the cell is broken and does not give birth). Use the ghost mortar not to worry about how much, and then grind it into a powder. Each serving of one cent, add a bowl of wine, decocted to eighty percent, once served, the stillborn child that is out. This formula is called "One Character Divine Scatter". It is very effective. 2, chills and fever, body sores, ancient superstitions, said that this is the ghosts and monsters, known as "shooting work in the people". A handful of leaves with the ghost of the mortar soaked in bitter wine, pounded juice, each serving a liter, served twice a day. 3, wind defender. With the spring harvest of the onisu root and leaves, roasted, pounded into the end, add honey and into pills to swallow. Guishu ("Benjing") synonym Juru rhinoceros, Mamou poisonous male, nine mortar ("Benjing"), Tianshu, Mamou male, detoxification ("Wu Pu Ben Cao"), Juru grass ("Dan Fang Jian Yuan"), shy Tianhua, shy cold flower ("Yibu Fang Materia Liao Ji"), harmful motherwort ("Ben Cao Tu Jing"), octagonal disk ("Tong Zhi"), one-legged lotus, one lotus grass ("Tu Su Ben Cao"), dry lotus ("Geng Xin Yu Book"), mountain lotus leaves, octagonal Mirror ("Compendium"), Venus anise, one-leafed a flower ("Book of Herb Extraction" by Wang Lianshi), jackhammer ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine"), a bowl of water, a bowl of water by the river, one-legged lotus ("Chinese Herbal Medicine Tuifang Tufa Tufa War Preparation Album"), one-legged lotus ("Illustrated Catalogue of the Higher Plants of China"), eight-legged crow ("Pharmacognosy Journal"). The source is the rhizome of Octagonal lotus of Berberidaceae. Botanical Forms Octagonal lotus Perennial herb. Rootstock transverse, brownish-brown, lignified, with stout fibrous roots. Stem erect, 30-50 cm tall. Cauline leaves 1, sometimes 2, inserted near the top of the stem and in the middle of the stem, respectively; leaf blade peltate, orbicular, up to 30-40 cm in diameter, 5-9-lobed, lobes ovate-matrix-orbicular, 5-8 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, apex acute, sparsely pilose or glabrous below, margins with acicular denticulation; petiole 10-15 cm long. Umbels, flowers 8 to 10, borne on the base of the petiole of the apical leaf of the stem, pendulous; sepals 6, elliptic, sparsely hirsute outside; petals 6, in 2 whorls, 2 cm long, crimson; stamens 6, filaments open, anthers introrse: ovary superior, 1-loculed, stigmas large, peltate. Berry ellipsoid or ovoid. Seeds numerous. Fl. early summer. Born on mountain slopes, under forests, and other shady moist places. Distributed in Yangtze River Basin provinces. The leaves of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes, and are detailed in a separate article. Collected in the fall. Chemical composition of the roots and rhizomes contain 4.2% alcohol-soluble resin, containing about 15% of onychomycotoxin, dehydrogenated onychomycotoxin about 0.33%, and also contains kaempferol. Bitter and pungent in flavor, flat. ①Benjing: "Pungent flavor, warm." (2) "Bielu": "Slightly warm, poisonous." Tao Hongjing: "Sweet, warm, poisonous." ④ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Bitter in flavor." Functions and Indications: Dispelling phlegm and dispersing knots, detoxifying and expelling blood stasis. Treating consumption, cough, vomiting blood, stomachache, gall tumor, scrofula, carbuncle, boils, bruises, snakebite. ① "This Classic": "The Lord kills parasites and poison, dispel evil qi, expel evil spirits and detoxify all poisons." ② "Other Records": "Cure coughs and throat knots, wind evil annoyance and confusion, loss of vitality and delusion, remove cataracts in the eyes, and kill great poisons. Not into the soup." ③ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Lord of laborious diseases." ④ "Compendium": "Lowering the stillborn fetus, curing malaria, carbuncle and gangrene, snake venom, and poison of projectile workers." ⑤ Wang Lianshi, "Book of Medicine Collection": "Eliminates all poisons, and is strong enough to soften and penetrate pus." (6) Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine: "Subduing Qi, dispelling phlegm, dispersing knots and subduing swelling." (7) "Chinese Herbal Medicine Earth Formula and Methods of Warfare Album": "Dispelling blood stasis, dispersing knots, and detoxifying." Usage and dosage for internal use: decoction, 1~3 qian; grinding juice or into pills or powder. Externally: apply the juice to the skin, pound it on the skin, or grind it into a powder and mix it into a compress. Contraindications ① "Materia Medica Jing Jizhuang": "Fear of wall clothes." ② "Materia Medica Jing Zhuan": "Where the disease is yang, yang-sheng heat and extreme confusion, loss of soul and delusional vision should not be used." (3) Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine: "Not to be taken by pregnant women." (1) Treatment of stomach pain: anise lotus rhizome, soaked in wine or chewed, one cent per serving. ("Chinese Herbal Medicine earth formula earth method of war album") ② treatment of gall tumors: onychomycetes (sliced, ginger soaked), seaweed, kombu, kelp (all washed with hot water), sea powder (water flew), cuttlebone two two, licorice one or two, conch a (fire vinegar sizzling, such as under the neck shaking with a long conch, the neck does not shake with a round conch). *** for the very fine powder, condensed honey pills as big as a stout. Every night when going to sleep, take a pill in the mouth. ("Sea Fang") ③ treatment of scrofula: ghost mortar root powder, vinegar dressing on the affected area. ("Hunan Drugs") ③ Treatment of scrofula: Fresh root of Goumou (鬼臼根茎) one or two, decocted with water; the residue is crushed and applied to the affected area. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine") ⑤ Treatment of furuncle and carbuncle: Ghost mortar root, vinegar and wine grinding coating; leaf paste, can eliminate carbuncle and swelling. (Gleanings from the Compendium) (6) Snake Bites: Root of one leaf of one branch flower. Chew it and apply it on the sores. ("Zhu Mu Trial Effect Formula") (7) Treatment of snake bites: Fresh aniseed lotus in appropriate amount, pounded and applied externally; or taken internally, each serving of two coins, decocted with water. ("Chinese herbal medicine earth formula earth method of war preparation album") ⑧ treatment of bruises, pain in the muscles and bones, labor injuries: anise lotus root one to three money. Research finely ground, served with wine, twice a day; or soak in wine. ("Herbal Medicine Earth Earth method of war album") ⑨ treatment of qi, blood, phlegm and drink, the accumulation of distension into a compulsion: ghost mortar a catty (sliced), ginger two, alum five money. Soak in soup for two days, and then boiled in wine, mashed into paste; Croton meat three money (remove oil), incense five money, toadstool five money, all for the end, and into the pills, such as corn big every morning and evening each served two, thirty pills, white soup sent down. ("Materia Medica Huiyan")