Synonyms Sand lanternwort (Compendium of Commonly Used Folk Herbs), Lanternwort, Water lanternwort, Beating divination grass, Beating forehead bubble (Guangzhou Force Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs), Tianbaozi, Wangmu bead, Yellow lanternwort (Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs and Treatments), Small sour pulp (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs).

Botanical form

Yellow girl Annual herb, about 50 centimeters high. Stem slightly prostrate or inclined, much branched, finely pilose or nearly smooth. Simple leaves alternate; leaf blade ovate-orbicular or oblong, 2-8 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, apex

mucronate, leaf bases unequal, entire or undulate, or with irregular notches, green and nearly glabrous above, hairier below; petiole 1-4 cm long, hairy. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; petiole ca. 5 mm; calyx campanulate, green, membranous, 5-lobed, hirsute, calyx enlarged as a lantern when fruiting, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter, enclosing the outside of the fruit, with a prominent 5-ribbed angle; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, yellowish-green, ca. 8 mm, with patches near the base of the corolla tube; stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla tube, anthers oblong; pistil 1, ovary orbicular, 2-loculed. Ovules numerous, style linear, stigma capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Berry orbicular, yellow, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Fruiting July.　It grows in fields, soil cans, and slopes. Distributed throughout the north and south of China.

Functions and Indications

Soaks away dampness and kills worms. Treatment of jaundice, dysuria, chronic cough and asthma, chancre, scrofula, blistering sores, wet sores.

①Classification of Herbal Medicinal Properties: "

Detoxicating and killing worms, the leaves cure sores of sky blisters."

② "Tianbao Materia Medica": "

To cure children's dropsy, noma."

③ "Sichuan Chinese medicine": "

Diuretic, elimination of quagmire, to remove bone vapor labor heat. Treatment of jaundice, urinary disorders, cough and asthma; external application of children's sores and skin sores of dampness and heat. The fruit alone is more effective."

Use and contraindication

Use and dosage

Internally: decoction of soup, 0.5 to 1 tael. External use: powdered and mixed with compresses.

Contraindications

Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Zhi: "Avoid using it if there is no dampness, heat and stagnation."

Selected formula

①Jaundice:

Tianbaozi, Yangquanhua root, red lemon tree bark (calcined), Mutong, stinking grass root. Decoction. ("Sichuan Chinese medicine")

② Treatment of pediatric blister sores:

Tianbaozi powder, sesame oil to apply. ("Sichuan Chinese medicine")

Clinical application

①Treatment of chronic bronchitis

Take 1 catty of dried whole grass made of 500 ml of syrup. Each time 50 ml, 3 times a day after meals, 10 days for a course of treatment, served for three courses. Rest 3 days after the end of each course of treatment, treatment of 60 cases, 39 cases of apparent effect, 10 cases of improvement, ineffective 1 case. Clinical observation of cough, phlegm, wheezing have good efficacy, the beginning of the effect of the time gap of 1 case for 20 days, the rest are in 3 to 6 days. In the course of treatment, there are side effects such as cardiophagia, gastric discomfort, dizziness, headache, insomnia, etc., which disappeared on their own after 1 to 5 days. There was a case in 2 days to take up to 1.5 pounds of medicine (raw medicine), also did not appear poisoning and adverse reactions. However, it should be used with caution in patients with ulcer disease.

②Treatment of clear spring acne

Take 50g of dried lantern grass, pig intestine 1 catty with the decoction, drink and take 2 doses.　During the medication, avoid spicy food.