Pinyin name q and da g ū

Alias Mao Qi, Mao Qige (Luchuan Materia Medica), Mao Qigong, Mao Qiqi, Abacus, Wild Pumpkin (Annals of Medicine in Nanning), Uncle Qi (Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines by Guangzhou Army), Aunt Yang Qi (Main Poisonous Plants in South China), Rattan Basket Fruit (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine), and Yang Shuke (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

It is derived from the branches and leaves of Euphorbiaceae.

Primitive shrub with many branches and branches densely covered with yellow and spreading coarse hairs. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 cm long, rarely 7 cm wide1.5-3.5 cm, tapering at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, coarse hairs on both sides, and yellow hairs on the veins; Petiole short, densely covered with yellow hairs; Stipules taper. The flowers are unisexual, and the male flowers are born in bundles in the axils of leaves with short stalks; Sepals 6, oblong, slightly obtuse, ca. 2 mm long, outside coarsely hairy; 3 anthers. Female flowers are sessile and usually solitary, with 5-loculed ovary, coarse hair, short style, oblong, upright and adhesive. Capsule oblate, pressed in at the top, coarsely hairy, 8 ~10 mm. Flowering in April.

Habitat distribution occurs in Shan Ye. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Chemical composition The whole grass contains phenols and tannins.

Sexual taste

1 Lu Chuan Ben Cao: pungent and astringent, cold.

2 "Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": bitter and astringent in taste, and flat in nature.

Functional indication

Expelling wind, promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. Treat acute gastroenteritis, dysentery, rheumatic joint pain, traumatic injury, traumatic bleeding, lacquer sore, eczema and dermatitis.

1 Lingnan Herb Collection Record: If the skin with lacquer sore is red, swollen and itchy, take its leaves and wash them with water.

2 "Lu Chuan Ben Cao": stop bleeding, drive away wind and reduce swelling. Treat knife wound bleeding, blood wind itching, sores and pox.

Nanning Pharmacology: detumescence, analgesia, diuresis and blood stasis. Treat traumatic injury, snake wound, lacquer erosion, scabies and dysentery.

Usage and dosage for external use: decocting, washing or tamping. Oral administration: decoction,1.5 ~ 5 yuan.

Attached prescription

1 Treat Rhus verniciflua allergy, paddy field dermatitis, pruritus, exfoliative dermatitis, urticaria, eczema: Wash fresh or dried leaves of Rhus verniciflua in boiling water. (Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army)

2 Treatment of acute gastroenteritis, dysentery, proctoptosis, toothache and rheumatic joint pain: the whole plant of Maoguo abacus costs five yuan to one or two yuan. Decoct with water. (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Treatment of burns and eczema: fresh leaves of abacus, washed with water, or ground with roots and spread on the wound. (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

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