Chinese herbal medicine: efficacy and function of centipede

centipede

(Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts)

Tripod grass with different names (Records of Medicinal Herbs Collected in Lingnan), Cynanchum bungeanum (Flora of Guangzhou), Cynanchum bungeanum (Folk Herbs of Fujian), Yemo grass (Flora of Medicinal Plants in Guangxi) and Chilly grass (Folk Herbs). Dispelling cold grass, ginger sprout grass, cold-gluten grass (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Annals), Cyperus rotundus, Yanhanzhu (Chongqing Herbs), Sweaty grass (China Herbs Picture Book), Scolopendra, Shuiwumei, Cyperus rotundus, Longtuzhu (Quanzhou Materia Medica), Ardisia japonica, and Shuivanilla (Hunan Herbs Annals). Tripterygium wilfordii, Myrica rubra, Tripterygium wilfordii ("Jiangxi Herbs"), Hedyotis paniculata, Hedyotis tricuspidata, Eriobotrya japonica, Hedyotis japonica, Myrica rubra, Sophora alopecuroides, Polygonum orientale ("Zhejiang Common Folk Herbs"), Trigonorrhoea tricuspidata, Hedyotis japonica ("Shanghai Common Chinese Herbs"), and Polygonum hydropiper.

the source is the whole grass or root of centipede in Cyperaceae.

Plant morphology: Pteris vittata

Perennial herb, clustered. The rhizome is purple and fibrous roots are born. The stem is slender, bald, 1 ~ 5 cm high, triangular and fragrant. The leaves are soft, narrow and linear, with different lengths, 3 ~ 1 cm long and 1.5 ~ 3 mm wide, with tapering ends and purple and sheath-like lower parts. Head, solitary, oval, green, 4 ~ 8 mm long, dense; 3 involucres, leaflike, connected under the ear, 2 ~ 16 cm long, often outward; Spikelets are extremely numerous, long oval, about 3 mm long, and the whole spike falls off after maturity; 4 glumes, boat-shaped, oval, wingless spine, 2 rows, relatively arranged on the axis, light green back, sharp apex, 2 undeveloped flowers in the lower part, 1 developed flower in the middle part, and only stamens in the upper part; Flowers without quilt, stamens 3, filaments slender and filiform, drug oval; Pistil 1, style slender, as long as filament, stigma dichotomous. Achenes are slightly compressed obovate and brown. Flowering in summer. Fruit in autumn.

It grows near water, beside water, paddy fields and wilderness wetlands. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

chemical constituents contain volatile oil.

pungent and flat in nature.

① Fujian Folk Herbs: "Gan Wei Xin, Ping."

② "Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas": "pungent in taste, slightly warm in nature and nontoxic."

③ Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Warm in nature and pungent in taste."

it is mainly used for treating common cold, cold and fever, headache, muscle and bone pain, cough, malaria, jaundice, dysentery, sores and swelling, and traumatic injuries.

① Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts: "Insecticides and poisons."

② Flora of Guangzhou: "White dysentery is the main indication."

③ Fujian folk herbs: "antipyretic and diuretic. Cure malaria. "

④ Collection of Common Folk Herbs: "Dispel wind, remove old cold and stop coughing."

⑤ "Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas": "Eliminating wind and heat, inducing resuscitation, stopping bleeding and relieving cough. Treat bruises and snake wounds. "

⑥ Nanning Pharmacology: "Removing blood stasis, reducing swelling, relieving pain, killing insects, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals."

⑦ Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan: "Treat colds, cold, headache without sweat, muscle pain, aversion to cold and fever."

⑧ Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Ⅱ: "Cough relieving, expectorant, pertussis treating, dry and hot cough."

usage and dosage for oral administration: decoct soup, 1 ~ 2 liang for fresh ones; Or mash the juice. External use: tamping.

recipe ① for treating epidemic fever: Scolopendra and Clematis chinensis, decocted in water. (Lingnan Herb Collection Record)

② Treatment of red and white dysentery: fresh centipede grass costs 12 to 125 yuan, and boiled water and crystal sugar are added for one hour. ("Fujian Folk Herbs")

③ Treatment of sores and swelling: whole grass of centipede and root of banana. Mash it and apply it to the affected area. (Hunan Pharmacology)

④ Treatment of traumatic injury: a catty of centipede. Smash it, and the wine will be washed in four or two. Take the wine orally in twos and threes, and stir-fry the residue and apply it to the sore spot. (

⑤ Treatment of common snake wounds: centipede. Mash it, rinse it with wine, take it orally, and rub it around the wound. (

⑤ treatment of skin itching: water centipede decoction and external washing). (Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines for Guangzhou Army)

⑦ Treatment of whooping cough, bronchitis and sore throat: one or two dried centipedes. Decoct with water. (Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army)

8 Treatment of malaria: one or two centipedes. Decoct in water and take it 8-4 hours before malaria occurs. (Jiangxi Herbal Medicine)

9 Treatment of stomatitis in children: one or two roots of centipede. Decoct in water and make honey clothes. (Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang)

⑩ Treatment of rheumatic bone pain: one to two centipedes. Decoct. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai)

⑾ Treatment of knife wound and fracture: fresh centipede is pounded with velvet to wrap the affected part, and the dressing is changed twice a day. ("Guizhou Herbs")

⑿ Treatment of icteric infectious hepatitis: the centipede has one to two fresh herbs. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⒀ Treatment of qi stagnation abdominal pain: the centipede is fresh and full of grass. Decoct with water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Clinical application ① Treatment of malaria

Take water from centipede, root it up (sun-dried to half-dry) for 2-3 seconds, and decoct it in water for 3-4 hours. Take it 2 hours or 1 day before the onset of malaria for 3 days. * * * 48 cases were treated, of which 21 cases were treated with 2 Liang, and plasmodium was found in blood test before taking the medicine, but the symptoms disappeared after taking the medicine, and 15 cases were not found in thick blood film; 27 cases were treated with 3 Liang, and 24 cases were effective. It is considered that the dosage should not be less than 3 Liang, the decocting time should not be less than 3 hours, and the medicine should be taken for not less than 3 days. However, according to the experimental results made by mice in the Institute of Parasitology, Jiangsu Branch of China Academy of Medical Sciences, it is proved that the effect of centipede on plasmodium murine is not good, and it can be preliminarily confirmed that it is ineffective against plasmodium murine; At the same time, it was observed that both the concentrated decoction of the root of the centipede and the ethanol reflux concentrated solution were toxic. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to do a toxicity test before using a large dose of centipede for clinical trials.

② Treatment of chyluria

Take two pieces of dried rhizome of centipede and two pieces of longan, decoct them in water, one dose a day, or take them instead of tea for 15 days. More than 1 cases have been treated, and all of them have certain effects.

③ Treatment of bacillary dysentery

Take 1.2 centipede and 1.2 rattan respectively, and decoct them in water for 2 times (2 doses per day for severe cases). 7 cases were treated, with an average of about 7 days, 54 cases were cured, 14 cases were markedly effective and 2 cases were ineffective. The average antipyretic time was 2.3 days, the average number of stool times and characters returned to normal was about 5 days, and the average stool culture turned negative was 4.8 days. Compared with sulfaguanidine control group, its curative effect seems to be not inferior.

④ Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take 1 kg of Myrica rubra (centipede) and half kg of roots and leaves of Cinnamomum fragrans (Cang Shu), add 1 ml of water and distill, and take 5 ml of middle distillate, 2 ml each time, three times a day, 1 days as a course of treatment. 92 cases were treated, 11 cases were recently controlled, 12 cases were markedly effective, 41 cases were improved, and the effective rate was 69.4%. This medicine has certain antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects, and the curative effect usually appears 2 ~ 4 days after taking the medicine, with slight side effects. However, the long-term curative effect is not good, and it is easy to relapse after drug withdrawal. There are 4 cases treated by increasing the dosage to 3ml each time for 2 days, and the effective rate is significantly improved. Remind you: centipede, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.