Drug Name: Snow Lotus

English Name: Herba Saussureae Involucratae

Drug Alias: Xinjiang Snow Lotus, Tianshan Snow Lotus.

Source: The whole plant with flowers of Saussurea involucrata Kar. et Kir.

Botanical form: perennial herb, 10-30cm tall, with a stout stem and many brownish-brown filamentous remnants of leaves at the base. Leaves dense, sessile, leaf blade oblanceolate, 10-13cm long, 2.5-4.5cm wide, apex acuminate, base clasping, margin serrate. Heads terminal, crowded; involucral bracts leaflike, ovate, multilayered, submembranous, white or light greenish yellow; flowers brownish purple, all tubular. Achenes, crown hairs white, spinelike. Fl. Born in alpine rock crevices, gravel, and sandy river banks. Distributed in Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Gansu.

Harvesting: Harvested in June-July when in bloom, pulling up the whole plant, removing sediment and drying.

Chemical composition: contains rutoside, snow lotus lactone, alkaloids, volatile oil, polysaccharides.

Functions: Snow lotus has physiologically active active ingredients. One of the umbelliferolide has obvious antibacterial, antihypertensive sedative, antispasmodic effect; scopolamine has expectorant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, expectorant and antitumor effect, clinically han therapeutic wheezing acute chronic bronchitis with an effective rate of 96.6% of apigenin has a smooth muscle antispasmodic and anti-gastric ulcer effect; to antelope phenyl ketone has a significant cholagogic effect. Special interest is the snowdrops contained in colchicine, the component is a typical representative of cell mitosis, can inhibit the growth of cancer cells, clinically used in the treatment of cancer, especially breast cancer has a certain effect, skin cancer, leukemia and Hodgkin's disease also has a certain effect. It has special effect on acute gout attacks, reducing inflammation and rapidly relieving pain within 12-24 hours, and reducing the number of attacks with long-term use. In addition, it also has estrogen-like activity, which can prolong the period of estrus and late estrus in rats, and shorten the period of inter-estrus and pre-estrus. However, colchicine is more toxic, can cause nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and in severe cases, intestinal paralysis and constipation, limb pain and other side effects. Because of the snowdrops contain curative but toxic colchicine, so folk in the use of snowdrops in the main treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and gynecological diseases must not be served more.

Pregnant women should not take

Function: remove cold, aphrodisiac, menstruation, stop bleeding.

Treatments: impotence, women's diseases, menstrual disorders, rheumatic arthritis, bleeding from trauma.

Dosage and Use: For internal use, decoction, 9-15 g. For external use, it can be pounded and applied.

Use

l, rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, periarthritis and geriatric lumbar and leg pain:

Snow lotus 20 grams, Chinese wolfberry, safflower 10 grams, white wine 2,500 milliliters, sealed immersion for 15 days to drink, the second daily service, 10-20 milliliters each time.

2, women's menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea and dysmenorrhea caused by lumbar and back pain, cold pain in the abdomen:

Snow lotus 5 grams, wolfberry, saffron 2 grams, water decoction. Daily service twice.

3, due to cold dampness caused by stomach cold, stomach pain and other conditions:

Snow lotus 5 grams, red dates 30 grams, wolfberry 10 grams, stewed chicken.

4, men impotence, infertility:

Snow lotus 6 grams, angelica 3 grams, goji berries 10 grams, water decoction, once a day.

5, menstruation and blood, nourishing yin and kidney:

Snow lotus, wolfberry 5 grams each, saffron 2 grams, gauze bag wrapped, stewed chicken to eat. Can also be soaked in wine, use the same 1.

6, warm kidney and Yang, tonifying Qi:

Snow lotus, wolfberry 5 grams each, saffron 3 grams, cleaned and packed in a gauze bag with the chicken and stewed, 2-3 hours of fire and then eat. Can also be brewed wine, the use of the same 1.

Note: Pregnant women should not be served.