Formerly known as horseshoe gold, alias: Lysimachia christinae, Mirror grass, Cuiping grass, Lotus bud grass, Wonton grass, Golden Key, Gleditsia sinensis, etc. Latin name is horseshoe gold. A creeping perennial herb of convolvulaceae, with tubular flowers. Leaves kidney-shaped to round, 4-25 mm in diameter, flowers solitary leaf axils, pedicels shorter than petioles, filiform; Green leaves with small yellow flowers. Mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. The whole herb has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, expelling wind and relieving pain, stopping bleeding and promoting granulation, diminishing inflammation, detoxicating and killing insects. Can be used for treating acute and chronic hepatitis, icteric hepatitis, cholecystitis, nephritis, urinary tract infection, tonsillitis, stomatitis and carbuncle, snake bite, breast carbuncle, dysentery, malaria, pulmonary hemorrhage, etc.

Sexual taste and meridian tropism; Sweet, slightly bitter, cool. Liver, gallbladder, kidney and bladder meridian.

Efficacy indication; Lishui Tonglin; Clearing away heat and toxic materials; Remove blood stasis and reduce swelling. Indications of hepatobiliary and urinary calculi; Hot shower; Nephritis edema; Damp-heat jaundice; Ulcer, toxic carbuncle; Snakebite; Fall injury.

Usage and dosage; Oral administration: decocted, 15-60g, double fresh; Or pound juice to drink. External use: appropriate amount, fresh mashed.

Pay attention to medication; It is reported that [Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine 1983, (3):40] 12 cases of contact dermatitis were caused by external use of this product, all of which were patients with rheumatoid arthritis and scapulohumeral periarthritis, and were fumigated with fresh decoction.

Application compatibility:

Can be used for treating hepatolithiasis, urinary calculi, cold shower, and jaundice. Lysimachia christinae has good diuretic, jaundice-relieving, calculus-expelling and stranguria-relieving effects, and can treat hepatolithiasis and jaundice. It can be decocted instead of tea, or combined with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Radix Curcumae and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei to enhance the effects of clearing liver-fire, promoting gallbladder function and expelling calculus.

For treating stone stranguria and heat stranguria, it can also be used alone or together with Lygodium japonicum, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli and Pyrrosia, so as to enhance the actions of clearing damp-heat in lower energizer, dredging stranguria and expelling stones. For kidney deficiency with stranguria, it can be combined with Herba Taxilli and Semen Juglandis to benefit kidney.

Used for sore carbuncle, breast carbuncle, fire pill, poisonous snake bite and traumatic injury. Lysimachia christinae has the functions of detoxicating, removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is usually fresh herbs for oral or external use. It can be drunk with fresh medicine alone or externally applied to the affected area, and can also be used with Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, Herba Taraxaci and Evergreen to strengthen the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

In addition, Lysimachia christinae is used for edema and abdominal distension, and has diuretic and detumescence effects for both oral and external use. It is used for children's lung heat cough and high fever, based on its efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials.