For the Labiatae annual herbaceous plant thorn mustard above ground. Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. Cut the above ground part in the fall when the flowers bloom and the spikes are green, or harvest the flower spikes and stalks into medicine respectively. Used raw or fried charcoal.

Octane, slightly warm. It is used in the treatment of the lungs and liver.

It is used to expel wind, clear the head and eyes, benefit the throat, relieve itching, relieve rashes, and stop bleeding.

This product is slightly warm, pungent and light, long for dispelling wind and relieving surface, for the dispersal of wind-cold medicine in the most peaceful nature of the product (also known as dispersal of wind-heat medicine), for the exterior of the surface syndrome, regardless of the wind-cold, wind-heat, are widely used. The treatment of wind-cold episodes, often with the wind, Qiang Wu and other pungent and warm antiemetic drugs used together, such as the regimen of all the wonderful formula Jing anti-sepulmonary syndrome; the treatment of wind-heat episodes, often with the mint, honeysuckle and other pungent and cool antiemetic or heat-cleansing drugs, such as the "warm illnesses," the silver warsorbent.

This product is good at dispelling the surface of the muscle and the upper focus of the wind, and is also commonly used in the wind up to disturb the clear orifices or stagnation of the skin due to the above symptoms, wind-cold and wind-heat are appropriate. The treatment of dizziness and headache, it is appropriate to use with Bauhinia, wind and other pain relieving drugs; eye redness and tears, with chrysanthemums, mulberry leaves and other wind, clearing heat and eyesight medicine; the treatment of itchy throat, more and more with cicadas, peppermint, burdock, and other wind to promote the lungs, clearing heat and pharyngeal medicine: the treatment of itchy skin and wind with the itchy medicines, can also be used externally as a single flavor, research and powdered sprinkles and rubbed on the affected area.

For the external bundle of superficial evils, measles is difficult to penetrate the hair, the penetration of this product, can directly promote the penetration of the rash; the effect of its expectoration of wind and relief of the surface, but also help the penetration of the rash. Because of the measles for "internal heat and poison, external infection," caused by the sky, so it should be used with clearing heat and detoxifying drugs.

While the charcoal of Thornybush has been fried, its flavor and efficacy has been changed into astringent and flat astringent hemostatic drugs, and the main to the liver meridian, it can be used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in the stool, bleeding, and other blood loss, but it is desirable to identify the cold and heat of the evidence of the actuality, and to make the corresponding combination, so as to treat the symptomatic and the underlying causes and to enhance the effect of hemostasis.

In addition, with this product to dispel wind and relieve the surface and "to facilitate the blood" ("Treatise on the Nature of Medicine"), can also promote the dissipation of sores and swellings, so it is suitable for sores and swellings at the beginning of the surface of the evidence.

Decoction. The first step is to use the herb externally. The pungent and dispersing nature of Jingwu Sui is stronger than that of Jingwu, and its dosage can be slightly lighter.

Materia Medica: "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": "Lord of cold and heat, rodent fistula, scrofula, sores, break the knot and gather gas, down the blood, in addition to dampness paralysis." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Disperses wind-heat, clears the head and eyes, benefits the throat, eliminates sores and swellings. It is used to treat strong neck, black flowers in the eyes, and sores, epilepsy, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hyperemia, bloody diarrhea, collapse, hemorrhoidal leakage."

2. Chemical composition and pharmacological effects: This product mainly contains volatile oil, and also contains thujaplicin, thujaplicin alcohol, flavonoids, pedicels and benzofuran compounds. It has antipyretic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, excitation of intestinal smooth muscle, inhibition of cancer cells, etc.; thujaplicin charcoal can shorten the bleeding time, and a certain amount of blood activation can occur when used in large doses.

3. Other: this product in the ancient materia medica to "false Su" for the proper name, should be noted when reviewing the literature.