Chinese medicine name Rabdosia rubescens donglingcao
Other famous herbs, blood-breaking pills, snow flowers, wild agastaches, and June orders.
English name RabdosiaeRubescentisHerba
The dried aerial parts of Rabdosiarubescens(Hemsl.)Hara, a plant of Labiatae, were obtained.
Small shrub in plant form, 30 ~100 cm high. The stems are erect, quadrangular, and the shoots are densely tomentose. The leaves are opposite, nearly rhombic, and the base often extends downward into a false wing, which is pilose and glandular on the top, grayish white pubescent on the bottom, with coarse teeth on the edge. Cymes have 3-7 flowers and form a narrow panicle at the top of the branch. Calyx is bell-shaped, purplish red, densely covered with gray puberulent and glandular spots on the outside, with 3 teeth on the upper lip and 2 teeth on the lower lip, which increases somewhat when bearing fruit. Corolla is light blue or light purplish red, with 2 lips, and the upper lip is everted. The apex is 4-lobed, and the lower lip is full, which is usually longer than the upper lip and often boat-shaped. Above the base of the corolla, it is often shallow-saccate, with 4 or 2 strong stamens, which protrude out of the corolla, and the style is strong. Nutlets are obovate-triangular, brown and glabrous. The flowering period is 8 ~10 month, and the fruiting period is 9 ~11month.
Distribution of origin is born in hillsides, valleys, shrubs, woodlands, etc. Distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places.
Harvesting and processing, cutting and drying when the stems and leaves are flourishing in summer and autumn.
Characteristics of medicinal materials: the base of stem is nearly round, the upper part is square column, and the length is 30 ~ 70 cm. The surface is reddish purple and pilose; Hard and brittle, light yellow in section. Leaves opposite, stipe; The leaves are shriveled or broken, and the intact ones are oval or oval rhombic after flattening, with a length of 2-6 cm and a width of1.5-3 cm; The apex is acute or acuminate, the base is wide wedge-shaped, it shrinks sharply and extends into false wings, and the edge is coarsely serrated; The upper surface is brownish green, the lower surface is light green, and it is pubescent along the veins. Sometimes with flowers, cymose panicles are terminal, flowers are small, calyx is tubular and bell-shaped, 5-toothed, and corolla is 2-lipped. Slightly fragrant, bitter and sweet.
The sexual taste is slightly cold, bitter and sweet. Enter lung meridian, stomach meridian and liver meridian.
Efficacy and function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It belongs to the category of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs.
Clinical application: oral administration: decoction, 30 ~ 60 grams; Or soak in wine. Used to treat sore throat, addictive lump and snake bite.
Pharmacological research has obvious cytotoxic reaction to cancer cells and has anti-tumor effect; It has obvious antihypertensive effect and may also have vasodilating effect; It has a certain exciting effect on cellular immunity; It also has antibacterial effect and slight inhibition on smooth muscle tension.
Chemical components: the stem and leaf contain 0.05% volatile oil, and the leaves contain oridonin, ponicidin and α-geraniol. In addition, it contains α-pinene, β-pinene, limonene, β-elemene, palmitic acid, rubescensin A, and artichoke.
The use of taboos is not clear.
Related prescription
① Treatment of cold and headache: 30 grams of Rabdosia rubescens. Boiling clothes. (Guizhou Herbs)
② Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: 90g Rabdosia rubescens, 500ml soaked in wine. Take 30 grams each morning and evening. (Guizhou Herbs)
③ Treatment of joint pain: 250g Rabdosia rubescens. Simmer the affected area. (Guizhou Herbs)
Efficacy
1. Anticancer
The anti-tumor effect of Rabdosia rubescens is mainly used to prevent and treat esophageal cancer in the folk. Combined with chemotherapy, it can reduce the adverse reactions of chemotherapy drugs and improve the curative effect, and also has a certain curative effect on severe esophageal epithelial hyperplasia. In addition, it has obvious curative effect on acute laryngitis and acute suppurative tonsillitis, and also has good effect on chronic bronchitis and chronic pharyngitis.
Step 2 clear away heat
It is found that Rabdosia rubescens also has the effects of relieving fever, reducing dryness, moistening throat, lowering blood lipid and lowering blood pressure. It has good preventive and therapeutic effects on colds, fever, sores on the mouth and tongue, and excessive internal heat. It can be used as a daily health drink for middle-aged and elderly people and some special people, such as teachers, actors and announcers, and has the effect of delaying aging.
3. Health care
Rabdosia rubescens is in the Taihang Mountain area of Hebi, and the local people "have it in every household". Suffering from toothache and sore throat, soak in water and take it, and it will heal after three times. There is a folk saying that "drink a bowl of ice grass every day to prevent wrinkles, remove spots and nourish the face, clear your voice and make it sweet after suffering, and drive away the disease and keep your body and mind safe".