Erychoma

("Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

Synonyms: Cramp grass, Erychoma, Stretchwort, and Erychoma ("Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine") "), Zhuangjin Dan, Chicken Egg Vegetable ("Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine").

The source is the whole plant of Chickweed of the Caryophyllaceae family.

Plant form Chickweed

Perennial herb, 50-80 cm tall. The stems are much branched. The single leaves are opposite; the leaves are membranous; ovate or broadly ovate, generally 2.5 to 5.5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide, with a sharp apex and a nearly heart-shaped base; the petiole is 5 to 10 mm long, sparsely pubescent, The upper leaves are often sessile or have very short stalks. Flowers are terminal branches or solitary leaf axils; pedicels are slender and hairy; sepals are 5, slightly connate at the base, and pubescent outside; petals are 5, white, much longer than the sepals, with 2 deep lobes at the top reaching the base; stamens 10, larger than the petals Slightly shorter; ovary oblong, styles 5, filamentous. The capsule has 5 lobes and 2 lobes at the top of each lobe. There are many seeds, nearly round, slightly flat, brown, with obvious protrusions.

Grows in fields, roadside grasslands, mountains or damp places. Widely distributed throughout the north and south of my country.

Collect in summer and autumn, wash, chop, and dry in the sun.

Nature and flavor ① "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Sweet and bland."

② "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Sour and mild in nature."

Functions: Clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Treat pneumonia, dysentery, hypertension, irregular menstruation, carbuncle and hemorrhoids.

① "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Clear heat, relax muscles. Treat lobar pneumonia, hypertension, irregular menstruation."

② "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Clear heat, detoxify, and activate blood circulation Remove blood stasis. Treat carbuncle, toothache, hemorrhoid swelling and pain, and dysentery."

Usage and dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 2 to 5 qian. External use: pound and apply or boil in water, fumigation and washing.

Prescription ① Treat high blood pressure: Eryentery 5 qian. Boil fresh tofu and eat it. ("Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

②Treatment of dysentery: one or two fresh goose intestines. Decoct in water and add sugar.

③ Treat carbuncle: three liang of fresh goose intestines. Mash it well, add an appropriate amount of sweet wine, decoct it in water and take it; or add sweet wine grains and pound together, then apply to the affected area.

④ To treat hemorrhoid swelling and pain: four liang of fresh goose intestines. Decoct the thick juice in water, add a little salt, dissolve and then smoke and wash.

⑤ To treat toothache: mash fresh goose intestines, add a little salt, and bite on the painful tooth. (②The following is from "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine") Remind you: This Chinese herbal medicine comes from the Internet. Please follow your doctor's advice before use.