common noun

Saxifraga plants

Other names

Chinese name

Saxifraga (a herb in Yan Lu)

kind

Whole grass

Different names

Stone lotus leaf (outline), hibiscus roxburghii, Saxifraga (essential medicinal materials), leaf-binding (single medicinal material), sky lotus leaf, lotus leaf with golden thread (modern practical Chinese medicine), Mimosia sericea (flora of Chinese medicinal plants), deaf grass, Crocodile grass and lion grass (Fujian folk medicine). Saxifraga, filar silk grass, crab shell grass, Saxifraga, Saxifraga (Hunan Medical Records), Saxifraga (Mindong Materia Medica), red silk winding, red thread grass, red thread rope, water ear, moonlight red, Hypericum japonicum, red ear and copper money grass (common folk herbs in Zhejiang).

source

It is the whole grass of Saxifraga of Saxifragaceae.

plant morphology

Saxifraga is a perennial evergreen herb with a height of 40 cm and full hair. Creeping branches are purplish red and filiform, and seedlings can grow on the ground. There are several leaves at the base of the stem. Round or kidney-shaped, with thick meat, 4-9 cm wide, round apex, shallow or wavy teeth at the edge, 3-4 sparse serrations at each shallow crack, heart-shaped or truncated at the base, green at the top, purplish red at the bottom and small dots; The petiole is long and the base is enlarged. The stem is pulled out from the axil of the leaf, which is more than 2 times higher than the leaf and red. Racemes are 12~20 cm long, bracts are ovoid-elliptic, the apex is pointed, and the petiole is densely covered with red-purple glandular hairs; Calyx 5 pieces, ovate, apex acuminate; 5 petals, irregular white, the lower 2 petals are larger and the upper 3 petals are smaller; Stamens 10, unequal in length; Bee pistil 1, spherical ovary, upper position, dichotomous style, small stigma. Capsule is ovoid with a beak-shaped tip. The seed is ovoid with a tumor-like process. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is July-165438+1October. It was born in a cool and humid place, in the shade of a stream.

collect

It can be picked all year round, but it is best to pick it after flowering.

chemical composition

It contains alkaloids, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride and arbutin. Phenolase contained in its chloroplast can oxidize cis-caffeic acid into corresponding o-quinone, which naturally oxidizes to generate aesculus bark.

Sexual taste

(1) Yan Lu's Materia Medica: "Sexual coolness is toxic." (2) Outline: "Slightly bitter and bitter, cold in nature and less toxic."

Functional indication

Dispel wind and clear heat, cool blood and detoxify. Treat rubella; Eczema, otitis media, erysipelas, cough and vomiting blood, lung abscess, metrorrhagia, hemorrhoids. ① "Yan Lu Materia Medica": "To cure hemorrhoids, use less dried ponytail (toilet bowl) to burn and smoke." 2 "Outline": "Cure the plague and get wine. Use it raw, spit it out, and use it cooked. Or add borneol to dissipate and heal. " (4) Textual research on plant names and facts: "The throat is closed and silent, which is used to replace tea. Also treat vomiting blood. " ⑤ Classified drugs: "Clearing lung heat, treating cough, rubella and erysipelas." ⑤ Modern and practical Chinese medicine: "carbuncle caused by soil, chilblain and poisonous insect stab."

dosage

Oral administration: decocted for 3~5 yuan. External use: mashed juice drops or decocted water for fumigation and washing.

Party selection

① Treatment of otitis media: Mash fresh Saxifraga leaves and drop them into the ear. (Common herbs in Zhejiang) ② Treatment of urticaria: Saxifraga and indigo naturalis are decocted. (journal of traditional chinese medicine, Sichuan) ③ Treatment of toothache caused by toxic heat in Feng Dan: Take fresh Saxifraga leaves 1-2 tablets and decoct them in water. (Common Chinese herbal medicines in Nanjing) ④ Treatment of rubella itching and eczema: fresh Saxifraga is five yuan. Moisturize with 95% alcohol, then soak in1000 ml of 30% alcohol for one week, and remove residues and apply externally to the affected area. (Common Chinese herbal medicines in Nanjing) ⑤ Treating lung heat, cough and adverse qi: Saxifraga is three to six yuan, and rock sugar is half two. Decoct with water. ⑦ Treatment of whooping cough: Saxifraga belongs to San Qian, and rock sugar belongs to San Qian. Decoct. Make meat pies and steam cooked food with water. (⑥) ⑥ Treatment of bloody collapse: fresh Saxifraga 1-2, add yellow wine and decoct in water for half a soup. (6) ⑾ Treatment of hemorrhoids: Saxifraga 1-2, decocted in water, added with a little salt, put in a jar, sit and smoke twice a day.

clinical application

To treat suppurative otitis media, several pieces of fresh leaves of Saxifraga are taken, mashed, filtered with gauze, added with appropriate amount of borneol, and put into eye drop bottles for later use. When in use, wash the external auditory canal with 3% hydrogen peroxide to remove purulent secretion, and then drip Saxifraga liquid into the ear, once 1~2 drops, three times a day. Treatment of suppurative otitis media was 3 1 case, and 25 cases of acute otitis media were cured in an average of 3 days.