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Dipsacus heteronymus (List of Plants in Jiangsu Province), Saussurea involucrata (Herbs of Northeast China), Wild Sesame with White Flowers (Traditional Chinese Medicine of Heilongjiang Province), Oryza glutinosa, Suction Herbs (Zhejiang Folk Herbs), Bunge Herbs, Soaked Flowers (Guizhou Folk Medicine), Wild Hemp (Herbs of Hunan Province), and Silkworm Eggs (Silkworm Eggs).

The source is the flower or whole grass of wild sesame in Labiatae.

Plant morphology of wild sesame

Perennial herb, 30 ~ 55 cm tall. Stems erect, simple, 4-angled, hirsute. The leaves are opposite, the heart is oval, 3 ~ 9 cm long and1~ 5.5 cm wide, the apex is long and pointed, the base is heart-shaped, sometimes nearly truncated, the edge has coarse teeth, and both sides have fuzz; The petiole is 6 ~ 50 mm long. The cymes are born between the axils of the upper leaves; Bracts linear, long1.8 ~ 5 mm, hairy; Calyx 5-lobed, lobes conical or needle-shaped, slightly longer or nearly 1 times longer than calyx tube; Corolla white, 20 ~ 30 mm long, 2 lips, long hair, upper lip bent downward in a pocket shape, lower lip 3-lobed and drooping; Stamens 4, 2 strong, filaments hairy, anthers dark purple; Ovary 4-parted, style touching the floor of the room, stigma 2-parted. Nutlets triangular, dark brown, about 3 mm long. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is from June to July.

Born in forest margins, glades, bushes, or streams, foothills, roadside grass. Distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and other places.

The root of this plant (wild sesame root) is also used for medicine, and another article is detailed.

Collect flowers or whole grass from May to June, and dry in the shade.

Chemical composition leaves contain mucilage, tannin, volatile oil, ascorbic acid 0.56%, carotene15mg% and saponin. Flowers contain flavonoid glycosides and other ingredients; There are isoquercitrin, kaempferol -3- glucoside, quercitrin 1.07%, kaempferol -3- disaccharide glycoside, wild sesame glycoside and rutin in flavonoid glycosides. Others include choline, mucilage, volatile oil 0.05%, saponin, ascorbic acid 0.72%, histamine tyramine, pyrocatecholamine 5.2%, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, etc. It is also reported that the water content of gold plant is 2.0 1%.

Pharmacological action Wild sesame extract can make arteries and uterus contract, and can be used for uterine bleeding. This plant contains saponins with strong hemolysis, but it is not in flowers. Oral administration of flavonoids isolated from wild sesame seeds in mice can inhibit the excitatory effect of cocaine.

Sexual taste "Zhejiang Folk Herbs": "Slightly sweet, flat in nature."

It is mainly used to treat hemoptysis, blood stranguria, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, deficiency heat in children, traumatic injury and toxic swelling.

① Records of Herbs in Northeast China: "Flower, treating leucorrhea and menstrual difficulties."

② Heilongjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Flower, clearing blood and stopping bleeding, treating irregular menstruation and abdominal pain before and after menstruation."

③ Zhejiang Folk Herbs: "Stem, flower, relieving cough and blood, clearing away lung heat."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 yuan, or grinding. External use: fresh pounded or ground and mixed.

Recipe ① Treatment of hemoptysis and cough: five yuan to one or two yuan for grass suction and five yuan for Pyrola. With fried clothes. (Zhejiang Folk Herbs)

② Curing cervicitis, dysuria and irregular menstruation: five dollars for wild sesame seeds. Decoct in water and take twice a day. (Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine)

③ Treatment of deficiency-heat in children: San Qian of wild sesame, San Qian of Lycium barbarum and Dendrobium nobile. Decoct with water. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)

④ Treating blood stranguria: stir-fry wild sesame seeds and grind them into powder, and take San Qian with hot rice wine every time. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)

⑤ Treatment of flash, contusion and sprain: fresh whole grass of soil silkworm eggs, fresh Eupatorium fortunei and fresh gardenia leaves. * * * Smash and apply externally. (Formula of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines)

⑥ Treatment of fracture: baotuan grass, clematis, Jiegudan and Jiejingteng are all equal, and the injured part is pounded and fried. (Guizhou Herbs)

⑦ Treat swollen poison and poisonous insect bite; Wild sesame seeds, lettuce and day lilies are pounded and applied to the affected area. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)

Remind you: Wild Sesame is a Chinese herbal medicine from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.