Chinese name White Flower Snake Tongue Grass ("Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine")
Groups All Grasses
Synonyms Snake Tongue Grass, short foot White Flower Snake Leigh Grass ("Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine"), Snake Tongue Bientzehuang ("Southern Fujian Official Herbals"), eye eye bead grass, knots knotting stamen grass ("Quanzhou Materia Medica"), grackle-li, thousand beat whacks, goat's beard grass ("Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II), snake total pipe, crane's tongue grass, fine-leafed willow seed ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine").
Originally, it is the rooted whole herb of Cynodon grandiflorum, Cynodon grandiflorum.
Botanical form White-flowered Snake Tongue Grass, also known as: Two Leaf Humulus.
Annual herb, 15-50 centimeters high.
Stem soft, slightly square or cylindrical, bald and glabrous.
Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate or sessile; leaf blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 1 to 3.5 centimeters long, 1 to 3 millimeters wide, leathery; stipules membranous, base connate into a sheath, 1 to 2 millimeters long, apically denticulate.
Flowers solitary or in twos in leaf axils, sessile or subsessile; calyx tubular, 4-lobed, lobes margined with short prickly hairs; corolla funnel-shaped, ca. 3 mm long.
Pure white, apex 4-parted. Bald and clean; stamens 4; ovary 2-loculed, stigma 2-lobed hemispherical.
Capsules, oblate, 2-3 mm in diameter, loculicidal, calyx persistent.
Seeds brownish yellow, extremely coarse.
Flowering July to September.
Fruiting August to October.
Born on mountain slopes, roadsides, and in grass along streams.
Scattered in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places.
Collected in summer and fall, dried or fresh.
The herbs dry whole grass, twisted into a mass, gray-green to gray-brown. There is a main root, about 2 to 4 mm thick, fibrous roots, grayish brown; stem thin and curly, brittle and easy to break, the place has white pith.
Leaves much broken, very spreading, easily scattered; with stipules, 1 to 2 mm long.
Flowers axillary.
Air slight, taste faint.
Mainly produced in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
In Fujian and Guangxi, there are also plants of the same genus, such as watercress (see the article on watercress), slender earwort (see the article on shrimp grass), and loose-leaf earwort (see the article on grackle's tongue), etc., for the use of white-flower snakeweed.
Chemical composition of the whole herb in the separation of thirty-one alkanes, stigmasterol, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, β-sitosterol, β-sitosterol-D-glucoside, p-coumaric acid and so on.
Pharmacological effects ① antitumor effect in vitro (equivalent to 6 grams of raw drug / ml) on acute lymphocyte type, granulocyte type, monocyte type and chronic granulocyte type of tumor cells have strong inhibition of the effect (blue test tube method); with the Watt's respiratory apparatus, the first two inhibitory effect is also strong.
The experimental treatment of S-180 and Ai's ascites carcinoma in mice and Yoshida's sarcoma in rats with the extract had no clear anticancer effect; 0.5-1 g of the raw drug/ml in vitro inhibited Yoshida's sarcoma and Ai's ascites carcinoma (Meilan's in vitro method), but the authors thought that this is a non-specific one.
②Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory effect in vitro antibacterial effect is not obvious, only against Staphylococcus aureus and dysentery bacillus has a weak effect.
The effect of the decoction on the phagocytosis of normal and artificial appendicitis rabbit reticuloendothelial fragmentation and leukocyte phagocytosis in vitro and in vivo, thought that its anti-inflammatory effect is to comfort the reticuloendothelial fragmentation and enhance phagocytosis and other elements of the proliferation of phagocytosis and other factors.
The flavor is bitter and sweet, cold.
①Western Chinese Medicine: bitter and sweet flavor, warm, non-toxic.
② "Minnan official herbal medicine": bitter, flat, non-toxic.
3 "Quanzhou Materia Medica": sweet and slightly acidic, cold in nature.
4 "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" Ⅱ: pungent, astringent, cold, non-toxic.
Categorized as "Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine": entering the heart, liver and spleen meridians.
Functions and Indications-White Flower Snake Tongue Herb is effective in clearing heat, inducing diuresis and detoxifying.
To treat lung fever, asthma and cough, tonsillitis.
Laryngitis, appendicitis, dysentery, urinary tract infection, jaundice, hepatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, adnexitis, carbuncle and furuncle, venomous snakebite, tumor.
It can also be used for digestive tract cancer.
①"Chaozhou Zhi-Products Zhi": the juice of the stem and leaves to drink, the treatment of appendicitis, and can cure all intestinal diseases.
② "Guangxi Chinese medicine": the treatment of pediatric chancre, snake bites, cancer.
Externally, white bubble sores, snake mange sores.
3 "Minnan official herbal medicine": clearing heat and detoxification, anti-inflammatory pain.
④ Quanzhou Materia Medica: clearing away heat and dissipating blood stasis, eliminating carbuncle and detoxifying.
Treating canker sores and scrofula.
And can clear lung fire, diarrhea lung heat.
To treat lung heat, asthma, coughing and chest tightness.
5 "Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": clearing away heat and detoxification, promoting blood circulation and diuresis.
The treatment of tonsillitis, pharyngitis, appendicitis, hepatitis, dysentery, urinary tract infection, pediatric chancre.
Use and dosage Internal: decoction, 1 to 2 taels; or pounded juice.
External use: pounded compress.
Contraindications "Guangxi Chinese medicine": pregnant women should not be used.
Selection ① treatment of dysentery, urethritis: white flower snake tongue grass one or two.
Take with water.
("Fujian Chinese herbal medicine") ② jaundice: white flower snake tongue grass one to two two.
Take the juice and honey.
(Xiamen) ③ treatment of acute appendicitis: white flower snake tongue grass two to four taels, goat's foot grass one to two taels, two-sided needle root three money.
Water decoction.
(Guangdong "Selected Chinese Herbal Medicine Prescriptions")
(4) Curing children's fever, unable to sleep: one tablespoon of fresh Snake Tongue Pientzehuang juice is taken.
("Official Herbal Medicine of Southern Fujian") ⑤ Treatment of sore, swelling, heat and pain: fresh snake-tongue bientzehuang is washed, pounded and put on, and then changed when it is dry.
(South Fujian Official Herbal Medicine) ⑥ cure poisonous snake bite: fresh white flower snake tongue grass one to two taels.
The juice is crushed and twisted or decocted with water, and the residue is applied to the wound.
(Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)
Clinical use ① pediatric pneumonia with white flower snakebite injection, each intramuscular injection of 2 ml (containing 4 grams of the invalid components of the raw medicine), infants halved, twice daily, the course of treatment for 5 to 7 days.
The treatment of 112 cases, 52 cases of recovery, 25 cases of near-healing, 17 cases of deterioration, 12 cases of effective, 6 cases of death, an even hospitalization of 7.98 days ② treatment of appendicitis to take the fresh white snake snake Tongguoqiao 1 two (dry 5 money), decoction of water, 2 times a day.
Children discretion.
It can be increased to 2 to 3 taels for those with more severe symptoms.
General bloating serious people with water needle or new needle treatment, poisoning symptoms are more serious people with rehydration and fasting.
The treatment of 19 cases are healed, including 12 cases of acute appendicitis and 3 cases of appendiceal abscess, 8 to 9 days of medication, even in 1.9 days and 3.3 days fever.
Signs and symptoms subsided in 3.2 and 6 days.
One case relapsed 4 months after cure and was still cured in the same way.
There are reports of using 4 taels of fresh whole herb (1 to 2 taels of dried), 1 to 2 doses of decoction per day; or made into 100% injection line intramuscular injection, 2 ml each time, 2 times a day, 6 hours once in severe cases.
The treatment of various types of appendicitis (including acute, subacute and appendiceal perforation complicating peritonitis) more than 50 cases, the ordinary medicine 2 to 3 days clinical symptoms disappear, 1 week recovery from the hospital.
Including acute appendicitis, the efficacy of the best.
Decoction efficacy is better than injection.
There are also reports of 30 cases of acute and chronic appendicitis treated with decoctions, with simple, mild symptoms, 1 to 2 days after the onset of the discharge of the single use of the white flower snake tongue grass; on the symptoms of the more serious, with a clear systemic and some of the symptoms, with the use of the sea of gold sand, the wild chrysanthemum whole or eucalyptus leaves.
Except for 2 cases of chronic appendicitis who were re-discharged for surgical treatment, they all recovered.
Uniform hospitalization of 4.2 days.
3 treatment of post vasectomy parotid depression in the commonly used spermatic cord blockade and Chinese and Western medicines on the basis of the addition of white flowers snake tongue grass (1 two decoction per day, ordinary 3 to 4 weeks for a course of treatment, the longest serving more than 10 weeks), can improve the effectiveness of the treatment; in particular, the effect of the simple parotid depression is more distinct.
Preliminary observation of 19 cases, have been a variety of medical treatment, such as spermatic cord blockade, physical therapy, chymotrypsin myocardial injection, painkillers, new needles, traditional Chinese medicine and antimicrobial agents, hormones, etc., of which 6 cases had been done vasovasal anastomosis, a case had been one side of the subtesticular resection, 2 cases had been made of the painful nodes excision, the effect is not ideal.
After the addition of Cortex Eucommiae, 3 cases of 10 cases of simple depression had their secondary symptoms disappear at all, and the parotid testis became soft, and the tenderness increased or disappeared; 7 cases had their symptoms worsened, and the tenderness of the parotid testis increased; and 9 cases of the concomitant inflammation of the spermatic cords and parotid testis had their symptoms worsened, and 3 cases had their symptoms worsened.
It is thought that the white flower snakebite has the effect of inhibiting spermatogenesis, can aggravate the depressions of the paratesticular testis, and can eliminate the inflammation, so it can receive the effect of healing.
But for the spermatic cord adhesion and paratesticular granuloma composition and other cases, the efficacy is not good.
④The treatment of venomous snake bites take this product 5 money, half a catty of white wine boiled for 3 to 5 minutes, remove the dregs, 2/3 oral (1 day divided into 2 to 3 times to finish), 1/3 internal wound.
Dressing first sucked out the wound poisonous blood, cleaned and disinfected with disinfectant cotton pads to cover the bandage, and then poured the medicinal wine wet dressing (to adhere to the degree of wetness).
If you can not drink alcohol, can be decocted with water, boiling and then participate in the excess of white wine, but the ordinary is still boiled in white wine is better.
On the edema persistent, serious and wound infection, appropriate use of other herbs and antimicrobials; on the light quit medium-sized cases, the single use of this method of treatment can be.
According to 19 cases of observation, the ordinary medicine 3 to 6 doses of recovery.
5 cure pelvic inflammation, adnexitis with white flower snake tongue grass 1.5 two, with the above day Jinniu (two-faced needle) 3 money, or add wear broken stone (carambola) 3 money, water decoction, 1 dose per day.
After 77 patients were treated, 4 cases were effective and the rest recovered.
In addition, there was a trial of 100% white flower snake tongue grass injection intramuscular injection, each time 2 ml, 3 times a day, the treatment of cervical cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, 1 case, the symptoms are different levels of improvement.
There were 10 cases of cholelithiasis and other biliary tract disorders*** treated with 1 two bilirubin of Cynoglossus albus, Herba eucommiae and Herba eucommiae, among which 9 cases of abdominal pain, jaundice, fever, etc., were relieved in 2.2 days; 3 cases of choledocholangiostomy patients, the amount of bile was doubled after taking the medicine, and a lot of bile sediment was discharged, and the index of jaundice was gradually decreased, suggesting that Cynoglossus eucommiae has clear bilirubin and stone-discharging effects. The effect of lithotripsy is clear.
Note the same genus of plants corymbosa H.corymbosa (L.) Lam, fiber flower ear grass H.tenelli floraB1. also used as white flower snakehead. The effectiveness of H. corymbosa is cited:
H. corymbosa (Jiangsu Plant and Medicine Journal)
Synonyms: Tong Jing Cao, Zi Lian Cao, Jie Tou Cao (Nanjing Official Herbs), Toothbrush Cao (Jiangsu Plant and Medicine Journal), Xiaohanxin Cao, Shui-Hanxin (Guangxi Medicinal Plants and Plants Journal), Xiao-Ear-Digging Cao (Nanning City Drugs Journal), Creekside Scutellariae, Jin-Digging Ears (Jiangxi Official Herbs and Pharmaceutical Inspection Formula), wild Xia Gu Cao, Fang Cao Er, Half Xiang Hua, Half Face Flower, Partial Head Grass, Four Square Grass ("Zhejiang Official Commonly Used Herbs"), Ear-digging Grass ("Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine"), Small Xiang Tian Zhan, Tiger Biting Red, Regenerating Grass ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine"), Catching Mountain Whip (Chengdu Manual of Commonly Used Herbs in Medicine), Narrow-leaved Xiang Tian Zhan (Fujian Selected Materials of New Medical Treatment Law).
Originally from the whole herb of Sempervirens, family Labiatae.
Botanical shape of Sempervirens, also known as: Di leaf Han Xin grass.
Perennial herb.
Roots beard-like.
Stem erect, 4-angled, 15-50 cm high.
Leaves opposite; ovate to lanceolate, ca. 7 to 32 mm long, 4 to 15 mm wide, base truncate or heart-shaped, apex obtuse, margins remotely serrate; leaves on lower part of the stem short-petiolate, apical leaves subsessile.
Flowering whorl with flowers 2 together, in terminal and axillary lateral racemes; bracts lanceolate, hairy below and along margins, glabrous on reverse; petiole 1-15 mm long, densely mucilaginous pubescent; calyx campanulate, apically 2-lipped, often with peltate on dorsal surface on one side of calyx tube; corolla light bluish-purple, tubular, apical part 2-lipped, upper lip galeate, 3-lobed, lobes toothed on each side, both ends lobes rounded, lower lip reniform; stamens 4, 2 strong, not protruding; ovary 4-lobed, style wholly inserted at base of ovary, apically 2-lobed.
Nutlets globose, transverse, with curved stipe.
Flowering May-June.
Fruiting June to August.
Born in moist places by pools and marshes, fields or roadsides.
Scattered in Jiangsu, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan, Henan and other places.
Collected at the time of flowering, remove the roots, fresh or sun-dried.
Medicinal withered whole grass, leaves have been scattered, for the stem and branches with flower spikes, 15 to 25 cm long, four-angled, yellowish green or purple-brown appearance, lubricated, soft texture, the fracture surface fibrous, hollow; residual leaves dark yellow-green, more broken incomplete, stretching curled, brittle and easy to fall; flower spikes inserted in the end of the branch, yellow-green.
The odor is weak, and the taste is slightly salty and bitter.
Produced in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
Chemical composition of the whole herb contains alkaloids, flavonoid glycosides, phenols, steroids.
Pharmacological effect with the blue tube method selection experiment, the acute granulocytic leukemia blood cells have a very mild inhibition of the effect; in the cell respiratory method selection experiment, the inhibition rate of the above leukemia blood cells is greater than 75%.
The flavor is pungent, flat.
①Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas: pungent and slightly fishy in flavor, flat in nature, non-toxic.
②Nanning City Drugs: sweet, flat, non-toxic.
3 "Jiangxi official herbal medicine prescription": flat, taste pungent and slightly bitter, non-toxic.
④Guangzhou Force "Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs": slightly bitter, cool.
Functions and Indications - The effects of Sempervirens are clearing away heat, removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, and stabilizing pain.
Treating hematemesis, epistaxis, haematemesis, dysentery, jaundice, sore throat, carbuncle, furuncle, scrofula, sores and poison, carcinoma, bruises and cuts, and snake bites.
①Nanjing Official Medicinal Herbs: breaks blood and passes menstruation.
②Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas: anti-inflammatory, dissipate blood stasis, stop bleeding.
Treating bruises and bloody diarrhea.
3 《Nanning City Drugs Journal》：reduces swelling, relieves pain.
Treating bruises, cuts and sores.
4 "Quanzhou Materia Medica": clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind, dispersing blood, promoting qi, inducing diuresis, clearing water, breaking blood stasis, relieving pain.
Internally, it can be used to treat hemorrhage, vomiting and epistaxis; externally, it can be used to treat poisonous snake bites, carbuncle and gangrene, furuncle, and anonymous swelling and poison.
⑤Guangzhou Army Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs: clearing away heat and removing toxins.
The effect of improving symptoms is seen in the treatment of cancer; appendicitis, hepatitis.
6 Chengdu Manual of Commonly Used Herbal Medicine: treating esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, uterine cancer.
Use and DosageInternally: decoction, 0.5-1 tael (1-2 tael of fresh product); or pounding juice.
External use: pounding compress.
Contraindications and contraindications: Not suitable for people with blood deficiency, pregnant women should be cautious.
Selection ① treatment of vomiting blood, hemoptysis: fresh narrow-leafed Hanshin grass one to two, pounded and twisted juice, mixing a little honey, stewed hot and warm service, the second day.
("Quanzhou Materia Medica") ② treatment of urethritis, urinary blood pain: fresh narrow-leafed Hansen's grass one or two, washed, decoction, mixing rock candy service, the second day.
("Quanzhou Materia Medica") ③ treatment of hot blood dysentery: small Han Xin grass two, decoction.
(Guangxi medicinal plant atlas) ④ dysentery: fresh narrow-leafed Han Xin grass three to five two, pounded and twisted juice; or dry whole grass one or two, water decoction.
(Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine) ⑤ Hepatitis: fresh half lotus five money, five red dates.
Take it with water.
("Zhejiang Official Commonly Used Herbs") ⑥ cure stomach gas pain: dry narrow-leafed hanxin grass one or two, and pork belly or chicken a (remove the head and the tip of the foot, the viscera), water, wine, half of the stewed hot, divided into two or three times to serve.
(Quanzhou Materia Medica) (7) treatment of sore throat: fresh narrow-leafed Hansen's wort eight money, fresh vervain eight money, a little salt.
Take with water.
(Fujian Herbal Medicine) ⑧ treatment of laryngitis, tonsillitis: half a lotus, deer antler grass, a branch of yellow flowers three dollars each.
Water decoction.
(Zhejiang official herbal medicine) ⑨ treatment of lung abscess: half lotus, fritillary, each one or two.
Taken with water.
("Zhejiang official commonly used herbs") ⑩ treatment of snakehead boil, lymphadenitis: fresh narrow-leafed Hanshin grass - to two two, adjust the salt a little, mashed internal service.
(Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine) ⑩ treatment of lymphatic tuberculosis: half lotus two, water decoction.
Or half lotus, water keel each one or two, add lean pork excess, boiled, eat meat and soup.
(12) treatment of back carbuncle: fresh half-branched lotus root pounded and taken internally.
To leave the white head, twice a day compress.
Another one or two whole herbs, water decoction, served four or five times to discharge pus.
After draining the pus, use the root to pound the juice drops into the hole and wrap it with gauze, changing it twice a day.
(13) Treatment of cancer: one or two each of Sempervirens and Snake Grape Roots, four or two of Garcinia Cambogia Roots, two or two of Salicornia Roots, and five cents each of Cynomolgus Roots, Fenugreek, and Sempervirens.
Take with water.
(11) below out of the "Zhejiang official commonly used herbs") (14) the treatment of bruises: small hanxin grass pounded, with the wine lees boiled hot compress.
(Guangxi medicinal plant atlas) (15) treatment of all venomous snake bites: fresh narrow-leafed Hanshin grass, washed and pounded, twisted juice, mixing a little warm yellow wine, residue on the affected area.
(Quanzhou Materia Medica) (16) treatment of snake bites: fresh half lotus, Guanyin grass each - to two taels, fresh half lotus, fresh a package of needles each four to eight taels.
Take with water.
Also take the above fresh grass after washing with a little salt, mashed to take the juice of internal use.
(Zhejiang official commonly used herbs)
Clinical use for cancer tumors take half a lotus 1 two, water decoction twice, on the afternoon, divided into service, or tea.
According to the observation of 36 cases of esophageal cancer and lung cancer patients, there is a recent improvement of symptoms in the local patients after using the medicine, but no root treatment effect has been seen.
Alternatively, it can be used to take 1 tael each of Semen Aesculi, Bai Ying, decocted with water, 1 dose per day.
Used for lung cancer, it also has certain effect on improving symptoms.