Tujingjie, a famous Chinese medicine.
Alias goose foot grass, smelly grass and oil grass.
Alias HerbaChenopodiiAmbrosioidis
The dried whole grass with fruit ears comes from Chenopodiumambrosioides L., a Chenopodiumambrosioides of Chenopodiaceae.
Plant morphology annual or perennial erect herbs, 50 ~ 80 cm high, with strong smell. The stems are erect, angular and multi-branched. Be glandular hairy or glabrous. Simple leaves alternate, with short stalks; The leaves are lanceolate to oblong, 3 ~16 cm long and 5 cm wide, with a short or blunt apex. The lower leaves have irregular blunt teeth or are wavy, while the upper leaves are smaller, linear or linear-lanceolate, with the whole edge, green on the top and glandular spots on the bottom, which has a special fragrance when rubbed. Spikes axillary, branched or unbranched. Flowers are small, green, bisexual or female. 3 ~ 5 flowers clustered in the upper leaf axils; Perianth 5-lobed, fruit often closed; Stamens 5; Style inconspicuous, stigma usually 3, protruding from perianth. Utricle oblate, completely enclosed in perianth. Seeds transverse or oblique black or dark red, smooth and shiny. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from September to1October.
Distribution of origin is found in the wilderness, roadsides, river banks and streams. Distributed in East China, Central South China, Southwest China and other places, it is often cultivated in northern China.
Harvesting and processing: Harvest the whole grass from late August to late September, spread it in a ventilated place, or bundle it and hang it in the shade to avoid sun and rain.
Characteristics of medicinal materials This product is a green stem with fruit ears. The lower part of the stem is cylindrical and smooth, with longitudinal grooves in the upper square, hairy, and most of the lower leaves fall off, leaving only linear lanceolate bracts at the tip of the stem. The fruit is oblate, green or yellow-green, with a diameter of about1~1.5 mm, and the fruit is covered by a thin sac-like persistent calyx, with brown-black or red-black cells.
The sexual taste is slightly warm, bitter and pungent. Enter lung meridian and bladder meridian.
Efficacy and function: expelling wind and removing dampness, killing insects and relieving itching, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Belonging to insecticidal and antipruritic drugs.
Clinical application: decoction, 3-9g, fresh product15-24g, or pill or powder. External use: appropriate amount, decocted with water or pounded. Indications: hookworm disease, ascariasis, ascariasis, head lice, skin eczema, scabies, rheumatic arthralgia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, sore mouth, sore throat, traumatic injury and snake bite.
Pharmacological research has antibacterial and anthelmintic effects. Anti-plasmodium.
Chemical constituents This product contains rosin carvone, chenopone, chenoposide, trans cinnamic acid, etc.
Taboos should not be taken frequently, for a long time or on an empty stomach, and laxatives should not be used before taking. Pregnant women and those with kidney, heart and liver dysfunction or digestive tract ulcer are forbidden to take it.
Related prescription
(1) scabbing after treating children's pox: whole grass of Chenopodium ambrosioides, decoction and external washing. (Qingdao Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)
② Treatment of lower limb ulceration: Herba Schizonepetae, decocting in water, and washing the affected area. (Miao Medicine Collection)
③ Treatment of biliary ascariasis: 6 grams of fresh leaves of Nepeta tenuifolia, 5 grams of Vitex negundo and Elsholtzia Elsholtzia each/kloc-0, and 30 grams of Bidens bipinnata. Decoct with water. ("Fujian Pharmacology")
④ Treatment of head lice: Chenopodium ambrosioides, mashed and applied with tea oil. (Hunan Pharmacology)
⑤ Treatment of arthralgia due to rheumatism: fresh root of Chenopodium ambrosioides15g. Stewed in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
⑥ Treatment of eczema: Fresh whole grass of Chenopodium ambrosioides is appropriate. Decoct in water and wash the affected area. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
⑦ Treatment of scrotal eczema: Herba Schizonepetae, Fructus Schisandrae, and Folium Lobeliae, each in proper amount. Mash, apply juice or decoct soup to wash the affected area. ("Fujian Pharmacology")
⑧ Treating poisonous snake bites: fresh leaves of Chenopodium ambrosioides. Mash it and apply it to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
Schizonepeta tenuifolia
1, relieving exterior symptoms and dispersing wind
Although Schizonepeta tenuifolia is pungent in temperature, it is warm but not dry, and its nature is relatively peaceful. It can dispel wind-cold and wind-heat, and has the effect of relieving fever and cooling the exterior syndrome, and can be used for colds, fever, stuffy nose and runny nose.
2, penetrating rash and relieving itching
It can be used in urticaria, rubella and measles, which can accelerate the regression of pathological process and relieve itching. Commonly used compatibility of peppermint and Saposhnikovia divaricata (both for oral administration and external washing).
3, eliminate sores
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has the effect of eliminating sores, and can be used for carbuncle swelling, scabies and scrofula.
4. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic
Benzoprofuran derivatives contained in Schizonepeta tenuifolia have a strong inhibitory effect on 3-α hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, which can promote the production of more cortical cholesterol and play an anti-inflammatory and analgesic role.
5, convergence hemostasis
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has hemostatic effect. Experiments show that it can shorten the time of bleeding and coagulation after frying Schizonepeta tenuifolia into charcoal. Can be used to treat bleeding, with Schizonepeta charcoal to stop bleeding, with other hemostatic drugs, for example, with Sophora japonica charcoal to treat bleeding in stool, with Mao to cure epistaxis.
6, anti-allergic
Flavonoids such as hesperidin contained in Schizonepeta tenuifolia have inhibitory effects on lipoxygenase, which can cause allergic reactions, so Schizonepeta tenuifolia has antiallergic and antiasthmatic effects, and can treat allergic immune diseases such as allergic dermatitis, urticaria and skin pruritus.
7. Anti-aging
Hesperidin in Schizonepeta tenuifolia can inhibit oxidase, reduce oxygen free radicals produced by lipid peroxidation of biofilm, play an anti-aging role, and can also prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, tumors and other elderly diseases.
8, antibacterial
Schizonepeta tenuifolia has certain antibacterial and anticancer effects, which can inhibit the growth of mycobacterium tuberculosis, and its decoction has obvious inhibitory effect on intestinal muscle contraction.