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Wild cotton, the name of the Chinese herbal medicine. This product is the stems and leaves of Ranunculaceae wild cotton. Indications for the function are: treating nose bleeds and eyesight.

Chinese name: Wild cotton
Chinese name: Ye Mian Hua

Alias: Gypsophila ("An Introduction to the Sketch of South Yunnan"), water gall, Artemisia annua, breaking the bowl of flowers ("Hunan Medicine Journal").

Wild Cotton Source

This product is the stems and leaves of Ranunculaceae wild cotton.

Wild Cotton Nature

"Hunan Medicine Journal": bitter and bitter.

Indications of wild cotton function

Treatment of nasal irritation and eye irritation.

Morphological characteristics of wild cotton

Herbs perennial, up to 60 cm. The stems, petioles, and flower stalks are all white, and most of the bristles are biennial. Stems erect, forked branched. Basal leaves clustered, with long stalks; leaves round or slightly irregularly pentagonal, 4 to 5 lobed, margins again shallowly divided, and rounded, leaf base heart-shaped or auricular, green above, sparsely hairy, gray-white below, The hairs are denser along the veins, and the main veins are palmate; the stem leaves are opposite, the petioles are short, and the leaves are smaller than the basal leaves. The flowers are solitary at the branch of the flower branch, and the flowers on the top of the branch are usually clustered by 2 to 4 clusters; there are leaf-like bracts under the petiole, which is similar to the stem leaves, but smaller; Perianth 5, white or pale red, densely filamentous white hairs on the outside, glabrous on the inside; stamens mostly; pistils conical or ovate, except for stigma, white hairs everywhere, stigma oblong, oblique, glabrous. Achenes are numerous, integrated globose, densely white hairy. Flowering from May to June. The root of this plant (Wild Cotton Root) is also used for medicinal purposes.

Wild cotton distribution area

Distributed in Henan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

Wild cotton growing environment

Born in a damp forest and near a stream.

Wild cotton medicinal properties

Roots are often twisted, 10-15 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm in diameter, and less branched; the surface is brown or tan, with irregular vertical wrinkles and a few lateral root marks. Root head has stem base, leaf base and brown-yellow whisker-like vascular bundles. Solid, woody, uneven section, yellow-brown. Weiqi, bitter taste.

Wild Cotton Usage and Dosage

Topical: smash the stuffy nose or apply topically.

Wild cotton related compatibility

Treatment of rhinitis: wild cotton smashed all over the grass and stuffed the nose with a cloth bag. ("Hunan Medicine Journal")

Governing the eyes: Three buds of wild cotton, roasted and kneaded. Put a copper coin with a hole in the Taiyuan Acupoint on the wrist first, apply the medicine on the money, and bandage it. Remove it for one to two hours. Left stick right, right stick left. ("Hunan Medicine Journal")

Clinical application of wild cotton

Treatment of biliary tsutsugamushi disease: take wild cotton stalks and leaves to make 100% concentrated decoction, take 2 times a day, 30 ~ 40 ml each time. Treatment of 39 cases, with the exception of 1 case, the remaining 38 cases, symptoms alleviated in about 1 day, symptoms disappeared in 2 to 3 days. It has been observed in practice that the unflowered stems and leaves have good antispasmodic and analgesic effects, and that the flowering whole grasses have a good anthelmintic effect; the longer the cooking time, the better the effect. Generally more than 10 hours is appropriate.