The efficacy and role of sepsis grass
The sepsis grass is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, which is contained in the "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica". There are two main categories of commodities on sale now. North China, Northwest China and other northern regions and Beijing and Tianjin are used to the whole grass of the chicory plant endive and several plants of the same genus for septoria. Jiangnan region used to use pennycress of Cruciferae family for miso. These two kinds of sepsis are different from the species described in the ancient materia medica, according to the evidence of the "Materia Medica" referred to sepsis should be sepsis family plants white flowers sepsis and its genus yellow flowers sepsis and other grass, this sepsis is now only a small number of regional use.
1, endive
Alias: bitter, endive, endive.
Source: for the Asteraceae perennial rooted herbaceous plants endive and its cognate genus amount of unsprouted stems of the dried grass, wild.
Place of origin: mainly produced in North China, Northeast, Northwest and other regions, other places also have distribution.
Morphology: a persistent herb, all containing white sap. Rootstock more creeping transverse, diameter about 2 ~ 5 mm, old rhizome epidermis gray-yellow, newborn rhizome white. Aboveground stems single erect. Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate. Basal auriculate clasping stem apex obtuse, midvein conspicuous, margin sparsely notched or pinnately lobed and acutely sparsely serrate. Heads terminal single or corymbose, flowers yellow, corolla ligulate. Involucre campanulate. Achenes, long ellipsoid, longitudinally ribbed, crown hairs silvery white and soft.
Trait identification: rhizome long cylindrical, 3-10 cm long, light yellow-brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, the upper part of the leaf base scars like nodes. The tip of the short stem and several or ten pieces of crumpled leaf blade, leaf blade gray-green. Odor, taste bitter.
Dense gray-green leaves without stems and branches are preferred.
Main components: endive contains choline, bittersweet, fatty oil. Yellow flowers contain a variety of saponins.
Pharmacological effects: clear away heat and expel blood stasis. In vitro test on Staphylococcus aureus has antibacterial effect.
Concoction: cut, raw.
Taste: bitter cold.
Meridian: into the stomach, large intestine, liver meridian.
Functions: Clearing heat and detoxifying the body, promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis and draining pus.
Indications: intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle, acute bacillary dysentery, acute pharyngitis, acute appendicitis.
Clinical application: mainly used in the treatment of acute appendicitis. Ancient formula has long been used to treat intestinal carbuncle with Coix lacryma epiphyllum and septum powder (Jin Gui Yao Liao). In modern times, on the basis of this formula, add and subtract, with heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs, etc., to strengthen the anti-inflammatory effect, the treatment of periappendicitis and appendiceal abscess, the effect is better, such as intestinal carbuncle formula.
In addition, it is also used to treat carbuncle (with Zihuadidin) and heat diarrhea (with honeysuckle, scutellaria, etc.).
Precautions for use: Overdose of sepiola can sometimes cause dizziness, nausea, and a temporary decrease in white blood cell count.
Dosage: 9-30g.
Prescription example: carbuncle formula: 15g of Semen eucommiae, 15g of Semen coicis, 15g of Semen dongguanren, 6g of Semen dongguanren, 9g of Semen dangpi, 15g of Semen eucommiae, 9g of Semen forsythiae, 6g of Semen zeylanicum, 15g of Semen zeylanicum and 6g of Semen huisuo, decocted with water, one dose per day, divided into two doses.
2, pennyroyal
Alias: melon grass.
Source: for the cruciferous annual herb pennyroyal with nearly mature short horn fruit of the dry stem branches. Mostly wild.
Place of origin: mainly produced in East China, Central and South China, and other places have distribution.
Trait identification: the whole plant is yellowish green, stem cylindrical, multi-branched full length of about 20-30 centimeters. Leaves green wrinkled more shed. Infructescence into a racemose. Fruit flat piece ovoid, like elm money. With fine stalk, stalk ca. 1 cm. Angular fruit contains more than ten brown ovoid seeds, the seeds are about 2 mm long, the surface has raised concentric rings. Gas faint, taste faint.
The whole plant is yellowish-green, with most of the fruit is preferred.
Taste: bitter and slightly warm.
Meridian: Entering the liver meridian.
Functions: Clearing the liver and improving eyesight, harmonizing the middle and benefiting qi.
Indications: eye redness, swelling and pain, tearing.
Note: According to the "Handbook of Identification of Traditional Chinese Medicines", in addition to the above two different families of septoria, there are a few areas, such as the northeast, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Yunnan and other parts of the region, the use of septoria plants, such as white or yellow flowers and other species of septoria. Summarize the above septum source is complex. But according to the clinical application that chrysanthemum family septoria and septoria family septoria similar therapeutic effect, are clearing heat and detoxification stasis discharge pus function, acute appendicitis has obvious effect, but the family should be named separately, should not be collectively referred to as septoria. Cruciferous pennycress function is different from septicemia, the generations of "Materia Medica" have been described, should not be called septicemia.
Introduction
Morphological Characteristics Editor
Perennial herbs, up to 1 m. Underground stems slender, above ground stems erect, densely covered with white inverted coarse or only on each side of a column of inverted coarse hairs. Basal leaves clustered, ovate-orbicular, margin coarsely dentate, petiole long; stem leaves opposite, ovate or long ovate, 4-10cm long, 2-5cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, 1-2 pairs of pinnate divisions, basal lobes small; distal part unlobed, margin coarsely dentate, both surfaces with coarse hairs, subsessile. Corymbose paniculate cymes, densely or only biserially hirsute on inflorescence branches and pedicels; calyx inconspicuous; corolla white, 4-6 mm in diam. achenes obovate, base adnate to accrescent rounded winged membranous bracts, bracts suborbicular. Flowering period May to June. [3]
Distribution Editor
It grows in grasslands and roadsides on mountain slopes. It occurs throughout China except in the northwest.
Cultivation and Management Editor
Sowing: mainly by seed propagation, harvested in June each year when the seeds are ripe, shade-dried, and selected full of seeds without pests and diseases bagged and stored in the refrigerator. Spring sowing in late March of the next year. Before sowing, first of all, prepare the ground. Due to the strong drought resistance of the curb, it is not easy to plant in low-lying waterlogged fields; secondly, because the seeds are very small, can be mixed with sand and soil evenly sown in rows 15cm apart, 1.5cm deep in a shallow ditch covered with soil suppression, 5-7 days after the seedlings can be produced.
Field management: when the seedlings are 6 to 8cm high in a timely manner between seedlings and seedlings, make up for the lack of seedlings and loosening and weeding, irrigation in mid-April 1 time, and human and animal manure fertilizer. If you want to take young stems and leaves, need to be harvested before the formation of flower buds, when the stems and leaves are young, nutrient-rich. Seed harvesting can be carried out in June, because the curb appeal is the side of the flowering side of the maturity, so, you can always pick the mature fruit, dry and take out the seeds.
Harvesting and processing: the young stems and leaves after harvesting should be processed in a timely manner, otherwise it is prone to mold and mildew, if encountered in cloudy days to be dried in time, can not be stacked. Seeds should be dried and stored in the refrigerator. Wild vegetables are pollution-free, non-polluting, rich in nutrients and have a unique flavor. Its wide distribution, multiple uses, high value, has a broad development prospect. Scurfgrass Scurfgrass, herbaceous plant, mostly grown in hillside meadows and other places, with pungent and bitter flavor, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying the body, removing blood stasis and draining pus.
Chemical Composition Editor
It contains villoside, morroniside, loganin and so on.
Taste and odor: cool, pungent, bitter.
Functions: Clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating blood stasis and draining pus. Used for appendicitis, dysentery, enteritis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, carbuncle boils.
Note: The same genus P. scabiosaefolia Fisch. is used as septica.
Attribution: Into the stomach, large intestine, liver meridian. [4]
Concoction: wash, dry, chopped for use. [4]
Herbal Traits Editor
[Herbal Traits] The rhizomes are cylindrical, dark brown to dark purple on the surface, with nodes, the length of the internodes is less than 2cm, and there are fine roots on the nodes. Stem cylindrical, with longitudinal ribs and nodes, surface yellowish green or yellowish brown, sometimes covered with coarse hairs. Leaves opposite, much wrinkled, broken, intact long ovate, pinnately parted or divided. Apical lobe larger elliptic beryllium-needle, lateral lobes lanceolate, margin coarsely serrate; upper surface yellowish brown, lower surface grayish brown, both surfaces sparsely white hairs; petiole short or subsessile, base slightly clasping stem; upper stem leaves smaller, often 3-lobed, lobes narrow and long. Some branches terminated by corymbose thyrses, flowers yellow. Achenes oblong-ellipsoid, 0.3-0.4 cm long, without membranous increasing bracts. The gas is peculiar and the taste is slightly bitter.
Pharmacological effects Editor
1. Antipathogenic microorganisms Huanghuala septica oral liquid, Huanghuala septica punch, and Baihua septica punch have strong inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus. The aqueous decoction of S. alba did not have significant inhibitory effect on influenza virus in chicken embryos, but its extract had significant inhibitory effect. In vitro, the extract of septoria has mild inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albicans and Corynebacterium diphtheriae; it has no effect on Streptococcus haemolyticus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium pneumoniae, Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus tetanus.
2. Sedative effect Huanghualiang seaweed has a sedative effect, which contains saponins as its active ingredient. The ethanol extract or volatile oil of the plant has a significant sedative effect on mice, and can enhance the hypnotic effect of sodium pentobarbital. Volatile oils of A. heterophylla and A. strigosa administered by gavage significantly prolonged the sleep time induced by sodium pentobarbital in mice, with the sedative effect of the former being the same as that of A. luteus, and that of the latter being weaker than that of the volatile oil of A. luteus. In the volatile oil, sepiolene and isospermene played the main roles, and the alcoholic extract and total saponins of the residue after evaporation of the volatile oil did not have sedative effects. The sedative effect of sepiola is more than twice as strong as that of valerian.
3. Hepatoprotective and choleretic effect of septum has anti-hepatitis virus, so that the inflammation of hepatocytes subside and capillary bile ducts open effect. It can promote liver cell regeneration, prevent liver cell degeneration and improve liver function.
4. Other effects In vitro experiments have shown that Bupleurum heterophyllum and Bupleurum scabra have strong anticancer effects on cancer cells. The aqueous extracts of A. heterophylla and A. strigosa injected intraperitoneally into mice had a direct killing effect on ascites-type S180 tumor cells.
Herb Identification
Trait Identification
The whole herb is 15-55cm long, and the root is slender and conical; the surface is grayish-yellow, hard and brittle, easy to break, and the broken surface is not flat. Stem cylindrical, 1-5mm in diameter; surface gray-yellow or gray-green, with fine longitudinal ribs; brittle and easy to break, the fracture surface of the central white loose pith. Leaves mostly crumbled. Raceme-like infructescence born at the top of stem branches and leaf axils; fruit ovoid and flattened, 8-15mm long, 5-13mm wide; surface gray-yellow or gray-green, central slightly elevated, edges are winged, 1.5-3mm wide, 1 longitudinal ribs in the center of each side, the apex is concave, and there is a fine fruiting peduncle at the base, about 1cm long; the fruit is divided into 2 chambers, with longitudinal septa in the middle, and there are 5-7 seeds in each chamber, and after the fruit is dehiscent, it leaves 1 fusiform white membranous septum. Seeds flattened round, about 2mm wide; surface brownish black, each side has 5-6 raised eccentric rings. Gas faint, taste faint. Yellow-green color, fruit intact is preferred.
Microscopic identification
Fruit transverse section: exocarp for a column of flat thin-walled cells, thickening of the outer flat peripheral wall, cellulose; mesocarp outer 3 to 5 columns of thin-walled cells, the inner 1 to 2 columns of fibers, tangential arrangement, the wall lignification; endocarp for a column of flat thin-walled cells, often flattened, the inner flat peripheral wall is slightly thickened. The center of the midvein vascular bundle is the xylem, inside and outside both sides of the phloem, phloem is very narrow, and its outer side often has one to several column sheath fibers. The pseudopodia are formed by a layer of thin pseudopodia cells protruding from each side of the midvein, curving inward and interconnecting in the middle of the locule, with a very thick periplasmic wall and a very thin periplasmic wall, and with a sutured or inconspicuous lumen.
Clinical Applications
1, clinically often with red vine, coix seed, peach kernel, dandelion, rhubarb, etc., with the treatment of intestinal carbuncle (acute appendicitis); and with the fish grass, Platycodon grandiflorus, coix seed, winter melon seeds, rehmannia and so on, with the treatment of lung carbuncle (lung pus ulcers);
2, with the silver flower, forsythia, etc., with the treatment of carbuncle and swelling, and at the same time, with the fresh grass of the product pounding the external compresses.
3, with saffron, hawthorn and other medicines, the treatment of post-partum blood stasis, abdominal tingling and other conditions.
4, with fish grass, Platycodon grandiflorus, Coix lacryma, winter melon seeds, rehmannia, etc., with the treatment of carbuncle (lung abscess);
5, used for intestinal carbuncle, carbuncle and sores canker sores and poisons. This product can disperse the knot of pungent, cold can drain heat. Clinically, it is often paired with red vine, coix seed, peach kernel, dandelion, rhubarb, etc.; with silver flowers, forsythia, etc., with the treatment of carbuncles and toxins, and at the same time, with the product of the fresh grass mashed and applied externally.
6, used for solid heat stagnation caused by chest and abdominal pain, postpartum stagnation abdominal pain and other conditions. The herb also has the effect of activating blood circulation and stasis, with saffron, hawthorn and other medicines, to treat postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain and other symptoms.
Clinical New Role
Jiaosi Cao is the whole herb with roots of yellow and white flowers of Jiaosi family of herbaceous plants. It is classified as the top grade in Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica, and is commonly used to clear heat and remove toxins. Its flavor is pungent, bitter and slightly cold, and it has the function of clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and draining pus, and removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is used to treat intestinal carbuncle (appendicitis), lung carbuncle (lung pus ulcer), carbuncle sores and postpartum stasis and abdominal pain, etc., with a common dosage of 6 to 15 grams. Through clinical verification, this product has many new functions.
Treatment of neurasthenia
It has been reported that this product has the effect of lowering the excitability of the nervous system. Usage: Take 300 grams of this product, add 1500 milliliters of water, and decoct to 250 milliliters over moderate heat. Take 1 time in the morning and afternoon, 50 ml each time, and 150 ml at night before going to bed. 7 days for a course of treatment. Generally speaking, the effect is seen on the day of taking the medicine, and the symptoms disappear after 3 courses of treatment.
Treatment of chronic ulcerative colitis
Experimental evidence shows that this product clears heat, detoxifies dampness, cools the blood, removes blood stasis and discharges pus, eliminates local inflammation, improves microcirculation of the lesion, and promotes the repair of ulcers. Use 30-60 grams of this product, with 15 grams of astragalus, Codonopsis, 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, 20 grams of danshen, 30 grams of Coix lacryma, 5 grams of Rhizoma Coptidis, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, 6 grams of Mucuna pruriens, Glycyrrhiza Uralensis, and take it with decoction in water. Daily 1 dose of treatment of chronic ulcerative colitis, the total effective rate of up to 93.7%.
Treatment of infertility due to tubal dysfunction
Take 40 grams of this product, add 600 milliliters of water, water decoction twice, decocted to 300 milliliters, add 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, and take it 2 times a day. If the treatment of tubal impassability, you can add 20-40 grams of this product in the diagnosis of the prescription decoction.
Control stomach acid
Panacid and acid vomiting are common symptoms of spleen, stomach and intestinal diseases. Regardless of whether the disease is cold or hot, can be added with the prescription of 15 grams of septoria, has a good effect on acid. If the effect is not obvious, reuse to 20-30 grams.
Treatment of skin itching
First, reuse 50 grams of this product with ringworm skin, the skin of the ground, the hundred parts of the snake, snake bed seed, bitter ginseng 30 grams, add 4000 milliliters of water, decoction boiled for 20 minutes. After warming up, use the liquid to scrub the whole body, 1 time a day, 20 minutes each time. Another 50 grams of this product, Angelica 20 grams of decoction water for internal use, once a day.
Treatment of herpes zoster
15 grams of this product into the evidence should be added to the formula decoction, 1 dose per day. At the same time, you can use the single fresh product daily in appropriate amount, pounded, and applied externally to the affected area.
Treatment of prostatitis, semen non-liquefaction
It has been reported that this product can relieve the local muscle vasospasm of the prostate, increase prostate secretion and promote semen liquefaction. For prostatitis, 50 grams of this product can be reused and added to the corresponding formula for decoction. On the semen is not liquefied damp heat bets, can be used 30 grams of this product, with dandelion, diarrhea, rhizoma, red peony, danshen, cuscuta, chasteberry, psyllium, amaranthus, castor seed, astragalus to clear and complement the combination of heat and dampness, clear and clear the urinary turbidity.
In addition, 30 to 50 grams of this product, added to the evidence-based formula, the treatment of cholecystitis, septic arthritis and women's pelvic inflammatory disease and other efficacy.
General dosage and usage 3g~9g, decoction.
The source of this product is more complex, belongs to the septicaceae septicaemia, only in the folk application, do not see on the market.
Selected prescriptions
1. For the treatment of intestinal carbuncle, the body of the body armor is wrong, the skin of the abdomen is urgent, the pressure is moist like a swelling, the abdomen has no accumulation, the body has no heat, and the pulse is countless. Pestle and mortar the above three flavors, take a square inch dagger of water, decoct two liters of water, reduce by half, take at once and urinate immediately. (The Essentials of the Golden Chamber)
2. Treatment of post-partum menstrual discharge for seven or eight days: six points of Semen euryale, six points of Angelica sinensis, eight points of Radix et Rhizoma Ligustici, four points of Rhizoma Ligustici, four points of Rhizoma Bamboo Roots, twelve points of Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae (stir-fried). Boil two liters of water and take eight times in an empty heart. ("Wai Tai Secret Essentials")
3. Treatment of postpartum lumbar pain, which is caused by the inflow of qi and blood into the lower back and legs, and the pain can not be reversed: eight points each of Radix et Rhizoma Gastrodiae Praeparata, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, six points each of Rhizoma Ligustici, Rhizoma Paeoniae Alba, and Radix Gui Xin. Boil two liters of water in two portions. Avoid onion. (Guang Ji Fang)