Chronic gouty arthritis is caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney, stagnation of phlegm and dampness in meridians, affecting joints, leading to stagnation of qi and blood and obstruction of collaterals.
The treatment should be invigorating spleen and kidney, removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals. In the prescription, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Herba Epimedii, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Rehmanniae, Herba Cistanches, parched Eucommiae Cortex, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Coicis Semen, and Rhizoma Dioscoreae are used for invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney. Peach kernel, safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, radix paeoniae rubra, radix cyathulae, caulis spatholobi and caulis piperis futokadsurae promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals.
Born on the edge of a mountain forest or in the grass on a hillside above 500 meters above sea level. Distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
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Cyathula, a perennial herb, is 50- 100cm high. The taproot is cylindrical and the bark is brown. The stem is slightly quadrangular, multi-branched, sparsely rough, and slightly swollen at the nodes. Leaves opposite, oval or narrowly oval, a few obovate, 3- 12 cm long and 1.5-5.5 cm wide, with tapering tip or tail tip, wedge-shaped base, entire, rough top and dense hairs at the bottom.
Compound cymes are densely clustered into flower clusters, most of which are green and white, facing each other on the axis of branches; The compound cyme bifurcates 3-6 times; Cymes are bisexual, fertile in the center, sterile on both sides, bracts ovate, dry, with thorns or hooks at the apex; The perianth segments of sterile flowers are hooked and spiny.
Fertile perianth segments are lanceolate with sharp points at the top; Filaments are dense at the base, staminodes are rectangular, the apex is shallowly toothed, the ovary is cylindrical or obovate, the style is persistent, and the stigma is head-shaped. Utricle oblong or obovate, pale yellow. The seeds are oval, lenticular, reddish and bright. The flowering period is from June to July, and the fruiting period is from August to September.
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