Chinese medicinal herbs are full of red

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Alias red duckweed ("Classification of Herbal Properties"), grass rootless, water floating ("Kaibao Materia Medica"), red floating ("Guizhou Folk Prescription Medicine"), floating ("Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine").

Source "Outline"

The source is the whole grass of the Manjiang red family. Fished in summer and dried in the sun.

The original form of a floating plant, slightly triangular in shape. Rhizomes are transverse, pinnate and branched; there are many whiskers and roots, suspended in the water. The leaves are small, alternate, densely packed on the nucleus, arranged in two rows of tiles, pear-shaped, obliquely square or ovate, sessile; the leaves are green, red when ripe, with mostly milky protrusions above, cavities below, containing colloids, and cyanobacterial symbiosis. Spore fruit has two sizes, born in pairs under the first leaf of the lateral branch; macrospore fruit is small, long ovate, and there is a large sporangia in the fruit, containing 1 large spore; the small spore fruit is large and spherical, and there are many microspores in the fruit, each containing 64 small spores.

Habitat segments grow in rice paddies or pond marshes. It is distributed in southwest China, south China and central China. Produced in Sichuan.

Characteristics of dry whole grass, small leaves, triangular, densely branched, wrinkled into granular flakes, about 4 mm in diameter, yellow-green on the top, purple-brown or reddish brown below; most of the fine whiskers are rooted, mud-gray. Light weight, no gas. It is better to be colored red.

Sexual taste "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Cold, spicy, non-toxic." "

Function indications for sweating, wind removal, diarrhea. Cure rheumatic pain, wind itching rash, measles can not be seen, ringworm, fire.

(1) "Outline": "The main carbuncle, into the anointing." "

(2) "Classification of herbalism": "Cure red and white wind dan, skin itching, rheumatism." "

(3) "Compilation of Common Folk Herbs": "Ironing with boiling water wrapped in cloth can produce measles that have been confiscated." "

(4) "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Sweating and water, dispelling wind and moisture, curing severe warm-up and itching, benefiting urination; quenching thirst, curing rheumatism and stubborn ringworm." "

Dosage for internal use: decoction, 1 to 3 dollars. For external use: decoction washed or hot ironing.

Pay attention to those who are weak and sweaty.

Compound (1) cure rheumatic pain, sweating and wind drive: red floating forty. Take twenty mashed and baked, wrapped in rheumatic pain while hot, wrapped with a needle (first disinfected) to prick the air around the affected area to avoid channeling, and at the same time mash the other twenty red floats and cook sweet wine for internal use. (Guizhou Folk Medicine Collection)

(2) Cure chest and abdomen: red duckweed, peach kernel, comfrey, thatch root each five dollars. Simmer the juice and take one or two servings of white wine.

(3) Treatment of measles is impenetrable: red duckweed three dollars. Coriander and Tsubaki bark are two dollars each. Serve with simmering water; then rub the whole body with the medicinal residue.

(4) Cure paralysis and leprosy: red duckweed and grass. Simmer water to serve; take an appropriate amount of red duckweed and ear grass, and simmer water to wash the whole body.

(5) Cure nine seeds: red duckweed mashed, sweet wine applied to the affected area.

(6) Cure red collapse, white belt: red duckweed two dollars. Simmer sweet wine to eat. ((2) Fang below out of "Guizhou Herbal Medicine")

(7) Cure fire injuries: red floating, sun-dried grinding powder, with tung oil to adjust the compress. ("Guizhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription Inspection")

Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine