(Guizhou Folk Medicine)

Heteronym Chrysanthemum indicum (Textual Research on Plant Name and Reality), Snow Flower, Cimicifuga foetida (Guizhou Folk Medicine), Indian Malan, Indian Malan, Xiaoshihua, Perennial Blue, Senecio scandens, August Frost, August White and White Malan (Zhejiang Common Folk Herbs).

The source is the whole grass with roots of Chrysanthemum morifolium in Compositae.

Plant morphology of Chrysanthemum morifolium

Perennial herb, 30 ~ 90 cm tall. Stems erect, smooth or hairy at base. Leaves alternate, oval to ovoid-elliptic, 2.5 ~10cm long and1~ 2.5cm wide, with blunt apex, narrow base, serrate edges, rough and hairy on both sides, and 3 veins. The head is terminal and arranged in an umbrella-like shape; Involucre semicircular, bracts 2 ~ 3 rows, thin margin; Lingual flowers are white and tubular flowers are yellow. Achenes are flat, with rich crown hairs, rusty or dark white. Flowering in autumn.

Born on roadsides, ditches, and wild grass. It is distributed in most parts of China.

Collect in summer and autumn, fresh or dried.

Chemical constituents include flavonoid glycosides, saponins, sugars, esters, tannins, protein, amino acids, chlorophyll, etc. The roots mainly contain saponins (mainly steroidal saponins), but no flavonoids; The aboveground parts (stems and leaves) mainly contain flavonoid glycosides, but no saponin. Saponins have a good expectorant effect, while flavonoid glycosides has a good antitussive effect, so the whole herb with roots is generally used as medicine.

Bitter and bitter, cold.

① Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts: "Cool."

② Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang: "Bitter and bitter, cool."

Functions are mainly used to dispel wind, clear away heat and toxic materials, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. Treat wind-heat cold, tonsillitis, bronchitis, furuncle, snake bite and bee sting.

(1) Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts: "Decocting and washing nameless swelling poison."

② Guizhou Folk Medicine: "Relieving exterior syndrome and removing heat. Treat cold and wind-heat. "

③ Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang: "Clearing away heat and toxic materials, regulating qi and relieving pain, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Treat bronchitis, tonsillitis, mastitis, epistaxis, Agkistrodon and Agkistrodon bite. "

④ Directory of Drug Resources in Wenling County: "Treating poisonous snake bites, bee stings, scabies, sprains and traumatic bleeding."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 0.5 ~ 2 Liang; Or pound juice to drink. External use: tamping.

Prescription ① Treatment of bronchitis and tonsillitis: one or two chamomile. Decoct with water.

② Treatment of cold and fever: Chrysanthemum morifolium, Solidago, San Qian. Decocting water clothes.

③ Treatment of epistaxis: fresh white chrysanthemum root, cogongrass rhizome, evergreen root and coccygea herb in San Qian. Decoct with water.

4 treatment of mastitis: one or two roots of Chrysanthemum morifolium. Decoct with water.

⑤ Treatment of Agkistrodon and Agkistrodon bite: one or two fresh roots of Sophora japonica and one or two fresh roots of Chrysanthemum morifolium. Mash the juice, take the other medicine and mash the wound, twice a day. (The selected prescription is "Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang")

Clinical application in the treatment of senile chronic tracheitis

Decoct fresh whole grass with 3 Liang (dry 2 Liang) in water for 4 hours every day, concentrate, filter and take it twice; Or the whole herb is made into tablets, 3 times a day, 5 tablets each time (the daily amount is equivalent to 2 Liang of crude drugs); Or made into granule, 25g each time, twice a day. All patients were treated with 10 day as a course of treatment for 2 ~ 3 courses. Curative effect: According to the analysis of 58 1 case treated with decoction for two courses, 72 cases (accounting for 12.4%) were recently controlled, and 105 cases (accounting for18.1%) were markedly effective. According to the analysis of three courses of treatment of 337 cases, 38 cases (accounting for 1 1.3%) were recently controlled and 96 cases (accounting for 28.2%) were markedly effective. 20 cases were treated with tablets, 9 cases were controlled in the near future and 7 cases were effective; 1 19 cases were treated with granule, 7 cases (5.9%) were recently controlled, and 7 cases (14.3%) were markedly effective. Among them, the effect of simple type is more obvious than wheezing type; Anti-inflammatory and antiasthmatic effects are not as good as relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. Most patients began to take effect within1~ 5 days after taking the medicine, with reduced cough, reduced sputum volume, yellow to white sputum color, comfortable breathing, and normal white blood cell count and neutrophil. Side effects: Generally, within 0/~ 2 days after taking the medicine, a few patients have dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, stomach discomfort, or occasional reactions such as dry throat, irritability, abdominal distension, diarrhea, bloody stool, frequent urination, urticaria, etc., and can disappear automatically within 3 ~ 5 days without stopping taking the medicine. There was no damage to the heart, liver, kidney and hematopoietic system during the medication. In addition, this product has been made into compound tablets with Buddleja officinalis, Ginkgo biloba leaves and blue vanilla in clinic to treat chronic tracheitis, but its curative effect is not significantly different from that of single-flavored Malania trilobata.

Remind you: Chrysanthemum morifolium is a Chinese herbal medicine from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.