(Classified Herbs)

Different names of goat's milk root (Classified Herbs) and goat's gall root (Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine).

The source is the root of Lonicera japonica Thunb.

Plant morphology: black Chinese strips, also known as: cattle excrement firewood (Gankun Business), sheep excrement firewood (Compendium), sheep excrement strips (Classification of Herbs), Embryo Cat strips, sheep tongue strips, gray pig vines, Leng Fantuan, and sheep excrement.

Evergreen shrubs, up to 2 meters high. Branches slender, cylindrical, densely grayish white or rusty stellate pubescence. Single leaf opposite; Petiole 0.5 ~ 2 cm long, densely gray stellate pilose; The leaf blade is elliptic-ovoid, about 4 ~12cm long and1.5 ~ 4cm wide, with blunt apex and little tapering, rounded base, entire or microwave-shaped, dark green on the upper surface, slightly shiny, densely covered with gray-white stellate pubescence on the lower surface, 5 ~10 pairs of veins, and raised on the lower surface. The flowers are small and white. About 8 mm in diameter; Calyx tube short, 5-lobed, persistent; Corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5; Stamens 5, inserted in corolla; Ovary inferior, 1 room, ovule 1, pendulous. Berry drupe, ovoid, slightly squashed, dark black: seed 1 grain, crushed. Flowering in May. The fruiting period is from August to September.

It grows in hills, roadsides, forest sides, grave slopes, barren hills and bushes. Distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

The collection can be collected all year round.

Sexual taste ① Guiyang Folk Herbs: "Sour, flat and nontoxic."

② Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Mild in nature, astringent in taste and nontoxic."

It is mainly used to treat dysentery, hematochezia, hemorrhoid, proctoptosis, rheumatalgia, leucorrhea, damp toxic ulcer and traumatic injury.

(1) "Compendium": "The main carbuncle is the back, and it is smashed and applied. It can heal sores, disperse pus and blood, and dry it to the end, and adjust it with plasma. "Pour blood down like water, take one catty of root, two buckets of raw white wine, boil one bucket, and drink it as you like."

② Classification of Herbs: "Root: cure hemorrhoids and itching. Flower: cure wool furuncle and traumatic injury. "

③ Collection of Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines: "It is a astringent medicine, used to treat dysentery and women's leucorrhea."

④ Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Roots or leaves: for rheumatism, pain in bones and muscles, fullness of waist and ribs, traumatic injury and blood stasis."

⑤ Wash away toxic sores and ulcers. (Sichuan)

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, fresh1~ 2. External use: decocting, washing, ramming or grinding.

Prescription ① Treatment of heat dysentery: one or two strips of sheep excrement and seven pieces of big wood ginger. Decocting water clothes. (Guiyang Folk Herbs)

2 treatment of hemorrhoids and proctoptosis: the roots of sheep excrement are two or two, and the pig's large intestine is stewed. (Guiyang Folk Herbs)

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