Anemone, a small perennial herb, 10-30cm high. caudex 1-2cm long, 3-6mm thick, brownish-black outer skin. The stems are erect, 1-3, branched in the upper part, sparsely white pilose.

English name: RADIX SEMIAQUILEGIAE

Alias: Purple-backed Anemone, Anemone, Anemone Grass, Thousand Years of Mouse Droppings, Golden Rats Droppings, Summer Tracelessness, Scattering of Blood Balls

Origin: This product is the dried tuberous root of Anemone Semiaquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Makino of the family of Buttercups. It is harvested in early summer, washed, dried, and the fibrous roots removed.

Traits: the product is irregular short columnar, fusiform or tuberous, slightly curved, 1-3cm long, 0.5-1cm in diameter, the surface is dark brown to gray-black, with irregular wrinkles and fibrous roots or fibrous root scars. The tip often has stem and leaf remnants, covered with several layers of yellow-brown sheath-like scales. The texture is soft, easy to break, the broken surface of the skin part of the white, wood part of the yellow-white or yellow-brown, slightly radial. The flavor is sweet, slightly bitter and pungent.

Resource distribution: distributed in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou.

Ecological environment: born in the understory of sparse forests, bushes, ditches, roadsides or shady valleys

Effects and remedies for carbuncle, scrofula, sores and poisons, hematochezia, hypoglossia, pediatric convulsions.

Originally published in Guiyang Folk Herbs.

Toxicity non-toxic, attributed to the heart meridian, liver meridian.

Cold in nature and sweet in flavor.

Chinese Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine:Seeds of the Millennium Rat Dung

Originally from Guiyang Folk Herbs.

Pinyin Name Qiān Nián Hào Zi Shǐ Zhǒnɡ Zi.

SourceThe seeds of Anemone, family Ranunculaceae.

The original morphology is described in the article "Tiankui".

Sweet, cold, non-toxic.

Effects and functions

To treat carbuncle, scrofula, sores and poisoning, women's hemorrhagic fever, bring down, pediatric convulsions.

Dosage

Internally: decoction, 3-5 money; or powder. External use: pounding compress.

Annexed prescription

①Treatment of breast carbuncle: millennium rat feces seeds seven money to one or two. Pound it and take it with boiled wine; or decoct half of wine and half of water.

② treatment of breast pain and swelling: millennium rat feces seeds five money. Decoction to eat.

3 ③ treatment of nine itch: millennium rat feces seeds appropriate amount, with the pig's tail (herb name) mashed external.

④ cure poisonous sores, eliminate redness and swelling: millennium rat feces seeds, mashed compress.

5 treatment of red crash, leucorrhea: millennium rat feces seeds five money. Boil sweet wine to eat to cure leucorrhea; boil brown sugar to eat to cure red crash.

6 Cure windstorms: five minutes of dried seeds of millennium rat feces. Swallow with boiling water.

Excerpts from the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Chinese Materia Medica:Millennium Rat Dung Seeds

From Guiyang Folk Herbs.

Pinyin Name Qiān Nián Hào Zi Shǐ Zhǒnɡ Zi.

English Name Seed of Muskroot-like Semioquilegin