In my 2018 article "Mt. Jiwang in May", I have a picture of a golden chicken, a small branch full of "beans". Because I rarely went out in the early spring before, I have not photographed flowers, but this year I had the opportunity to photograph the flowers of Jiwang Mountain and Gufeng Mountain, and I found that the number was quite OK.
Some time ago, a netizen dried her golden chicken flowers scrambled eggs in the group. Speaking of eating golden chicken flowers, it has long been recorded in the "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica", which is called "Tooth Flower" in the "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica", the original text is like this: "The real name of the Golden Chicken Flower, also known as the sauce petals, is born in the mountains and wild, and the homes of people are also planted more; the leaves are like goji berries and small, and each four-leaf is born in one place, and the branches are also like goji berries with small thorns, and the yellow flowers are chicken-like, and the small horns are sweet." To save the hunger and pick flowers, cook oil and salt to mix food, stir-fry and eat, tea can also be. (There is no punctuation in the original text, and the punctuation I added is not necessarily correct)
There are also many aliases for the golden chicken: the tooth flower ("Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica", some literature has been typed "Dam Tooth Flower"), the Golden Magpie Flower ("Yunnan Materia Medica"), the Yellow Sparrow Flower ("Outline of The Collection"), the Yang Que Flower ("Grass and Wood Ben Fang"), the Pig's Trotter Flower ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine"), the Axe Flower, the Turtle Mouth Flower ("Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual"), and the Yang Que Flower ("Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine"). Also known as: Sauce Petal ("Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica"), "Big Snake Leaf" ("Yunnan Materia Medica"), Fei Lai Feng ("Jiaxing Fu Zhi"), And The Ground Sheep Magpie ("Tianbao Materia Medica"). In Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, people call it tu astragalus, and there are flocks of finches, iron brooms, leopard skin whips, goose root thorns, plantagenets, large embroidery needles, sticky socks, yellow sparrows, yang finch flowers, yellow spines and so on. Knowing these aliases is to facilitate communication and learning, and if you don't know that it's called "Tooth Flower" in "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica" then it is difficult to find the original text. Or reading the original text is not easy to connect.
I. National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine:
【Sexual taste】Root: sweet, slightly spicy, flat. Flower: Sweet, warm.
【Functional indications】Root: nourishing and strong, invigorating blood and regulating menstruation, dispelling wind and dampness. It is used for hypertension, dizziness, tinnitus, weakness, menstrual irregularities, vaginal discharge, insufficient milk, rheumatic joint pain, bruises.
Flower: dispel wind and activate blood, cough and phlegm. For dizziness and tinnitus, lung deficiency cough, indigestion in children.
【Dosage】Root 0.5 ~ 1 two; cost 4 ~ 6 yuan.
II. Further Reading:
"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": Golden Max Flower, a large snake leaf. Sweet taste, warm sex. The Lord replenishes qi, replenishes blood, strains qi and blood, cold and heat, cold and fever, cough, the woman has a long vaginal discharge, and the qi deficiency sinks, and the good effect. Dizziness and tinnitus, waist and knee pain, all fatigue injuries, the effect of service. This sex is not dry or cold, and it is well used. Or simmer chicken and pork.
The golden pheasant is a small shrub that can be cultivated as an ornamental plant or as a bonsai.
By the way, the "Pharmacopoeia" does not include the golden chicken, in the Ministry of Tibetan Medicine issued a Tibetan golden chicken, the standard name of the plant is "ghost arrow golden chicken", but also the legume family of the golden chicken genus, looks more like astragalus, not today's pictures, the distribution area of the ghost arrow golden chicken includes our Shanxi, Shanxi is called "ghost arrow sorrow". The role of the Ministry of Tibetan Medicine is: "Break blood, dissolve stasis, and lower blood pressure." It is used for alpine polyemia, hypertension and menstrual irregularities. ”。 The role of Chinese medicine is: "tendon continuity, dispel wind and dehumidification, activate blood circulation, reduce swelling and relieve pain". "Detoxification, detoxification, blood pressure reduction".
If you want to see and eat the flowers, go in mid-April, if you want to see the fruit, it is estimated that it is not too late, and then the seed will leave the mother and find a suitable place for it to grow.
Author's statement: Although the single prescription of traditional Chinese medicine has a good clinical efficacy, it also needs "dialectical treatment" and "looking, hearing and asking" (need to meet). If you need to use Chinese medicine, please consult a Chinese medicine practitioner and follow your doctor's advice. This article does not constitute a medication recommendation.