Cat's claw herb is the tuberous root of small mullein plant of the family of mullein, taste sweet and pungent, slightly warm in nature, attributed to the liver, lung two meridians, has the power to clear away heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and stop coughing, dissipate knots and relieve pain and anti-tuberculosis, and has a wide range of clinical applications. Here I give you an introduction to the use of cat's claw, come and see.
Cat's claw herb usage
Treatment of cervical lymph node tuberculosis. To internal tracing claw grass decoction (or tincture) as the main, supplemented by qi nourishing Chinese medicine, combined with surgical incision and drainage, scratching and crawling surgery, local compresses with a variety of cat's claw grass preparations, the treatment of simple type, mixed infection type, ulcer type, fistula type cervical lymph node tuberculosis 180 cases, the treatment of 2-3 months, was clinically cured in 134 cases, significantly effective in 32 cases, the improvement of the 14 cases.
Preparation and use: 1. Internal medicine: cat's claw 150 g, add 500 ml of water, decocted over a gentle fire for half an hour, before going to bed, washed with 2-4 two of yellow wine to take, 1 dose per day. Or use 25% tincture, take 3 times a day, each time 10 ml. are 3 days for a course of treatment, the interval of 3-5 days to the next course of treatment. Ask the interval for the weak body to serve Bazhen Tang, for ulcers or fistulas to serve Yiqi Nourishing Rong Tang, take 2-3 doses.
2. external medicine: 10% cat's claw grass proposed liquid, soaked sterile gauze, used for necrotic tissue or caseous material more ulcers or fistulas; 30% cat's claw grass ointment, used for mixed infections or ulcers have been formed in the affected area; or made of cat's claw grass Vaseline gauze, suitable for drainage or filling fistulae, treatment process has not been found to have adverse side effects. There have been 124 cases in 1-2 years follow-up, observation of long-term efficacy, recurrence of 4 cases, are distant recurrence. Cat's claw can also be made into injections for intramuscular injection, each 2-4 ml, twice a day, still combined with routine local treatment. Observe 110 cases, cure rate 90%. Cultivation method
The herb is several small tuberous roots clustered on up. Tubers Fusiform, the end of the pointed side slightly curved inward, all shaped like a cat's claw, body surface yellow-brown or gray-brown, often leaving a small fibrous roots, the top of the petiole residue, grayish-yellow. Tubers are plump, fleshy and firm, and white on the cross-section is preferred.
1, the original cultivation: every year in August began to prepare the ground, every 667 square meters of 5000 kg of pigpen fertilizer, 50 kg of compound fertilizer, 10 kg of urea. Deep plowing and harrowing, leveling and making beds, bed width 16.5 m, ditch width 26.4 cm. September began cultivation, plant spacing 10 cm?13.2 cm, mulch 1.6 cm, watering. Harvest in the summer season every year.
2, sub-strain propagation: fertilization and land preparation as above. Spring and fall planting, spring 1 ~ April to start planting cultivation, fall 8 ~ December planting cultivation, plant spacing 10 cm?13.2 cm, mulch 1.6 cm, watering the root water, keep the soil moist during growth. Growth period of a small amount of urea, per 667 square meters with 5 kg of urea to water irrigation, to promote growth.
3, seed plant storage: summer harvest, the cat's claw grass stems and leaves cut off storage, indoor layer of 10 cm thick yellow sand, then the grass stems laid on top of the yellow sand, 10 cm thick, and then lay a layer of yellow sand, can be paved 5 to 6 layers, to keep the yellow sand moist. Can also be in the original growth of the ground to let the natural overwintering, watering in August, September cat's claw grass breaks out of the ground, 15 days seedling Qi, October with digging with the split cultivation.
4, harvesting and processing: spring 5 ~ June, fall 9 ~ October to start harvesting, digging out the underground rhizome, remove the ground stem and leaves, wash the soil, dry can be sold.
Cat's claw grass field management
Cat's claw grass because of the shallow root system, do not use hoeing, but need to pull weeds, often keep the soil moist, pay attention to watering during the growing period, in the seedling period to be fertilized 2 times. Cat's claw grass has two optimal growth period: frost to snow, hibernation to Qingming. Cultivation should be timely loosening and weeding, do not hurt the roots. Cat's claw is a winter growth of medicinal herbs, in not less than -40 ℃ can be safe overwintering, without special management.
Gardening
This species of flowers delicate, bright color, adaptability, suitable for planting in patches on the lawn, under the sparse forest, the spring grass is full of stars dotted with small yellow flowers, wild and interesting, but also suitable for depressions, streams and other wet places for ground cover.
Reproduction methods
Seed reproduction
Seeds are harvested in April-May when the fruits are ripe, and seeds can be sown between June and December, with a spacing of 30cm between rows of strips, covered with a thin layer of soil. Seeds can be sown immediately after harvest. Sufficient bottom fertilizer, rake fine leveling, make a good seedbed, watering the bottom, the seeds evenly sown on top of the seedbed, covered with triple soil in order to not see the seeds to the degree. Keep the bed wet, too much humidity will cause seed rot, 140 days seedling. If covered with film, the seedlings will emerge in 60 days. Seedling ventilation refining, seedling height 6.6 cm transplanted to the field, with digging and planting, plant spacing 10?13.2 cm, fertilizer after the survival of the same as above.
Split-root reproduction
The smaller rhizomes dug out in spring for seed planting, according to the row-row spacing of 30cm?30cm cave planting.
Split-plant reproduction