What is Lobelia?

Mountain stalk vegetable, Chinese medicine name. It is the root or rooted grass of Lobelia sessilifolia Lamb. The plant is a plant that is distributed in Northeast China and Hebei, Shandong, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. With expectorant cough, diuretic swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying effect. Indications: cold and fever, cough, phlegm, asthma, cirrhosis, ascites, edema, gangrene, venom, snake dog bite, bee sting.

Lobelia "Heilongjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine", Leech Vegetable, Bitter Vegetable, Feast Flower "Hunan Medicine Journal", Large Species Lobelia and Water Cabbage (Jiangxi "Handbook of Herbal Medicine"), Tianzhu Seven "Zhejiang Medicinal Plant History" Water Willow "Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Resource List".

Root or whole grass with roots.

Weixin and flat sex.

Into the lungs and kidneys.

Expectorant and cough, diuretic swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying.

Colds and fever, cough, phlegm, asthma, cirrhosis, ascites, edema, gangrene venom, snake dog bites, bee stings.

1. For the treatment of colds and fever, 9g. Decoction. ("Hunan Medicine Journal")

2, cure chronic nephritis, Lobelia 12g. Decoction 3 times, 3 times after mixing, 2 times daily. ("Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine")

3. For the treatment of ascites, 9-15g hay, 9-12g white grass root and 9g vermicelli grass. Stewed pork feet to eat. ("Lushan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

4. For treating scabies of scabies, 9-15g. Water and wine are half-fried, and if there are cold and heat symptoms, add 3-5 onions and 9 g of light tofu, and rub the root with water to form a paste and rub the affected area. ("Lushan Chinese Herbal Medicine")

5. For the treatment of bite by poisonous snake, 30g of fresh mountain stalk and 60g of fresh clover. Smash the gravy or decoction. For those who have larynx paralysis, add 20 tablets of Liushen Pill. (Clinical Manual of Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Oral: decoction, 10-15g, fresh product 15-30g, or mashed juice.

Topical: appropriate amount of fresh product, mashed and applied.

1. Central excitement.

2. Poison-like effect.

3, expectorant effect.

4. It has an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation.

Patients with gangrene take caution. Oral overdose can cause vomiting or diarrhea.

Collection and processing: summer and autumn harvesting, washing, fresh or dried.

Characteristics of medicinal materials: The rhizomes are thick, with most white thin whisker roots. Stems erect. Single leaves alternate, lanceolate, apex pointed, edges serrated. Racemes with apical stems, calyx campanulate 5-lobed; corolla dark blue, nearly two-lip-shaped, upper lip 2 fully split, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes oblong, margin densely white marginal hairs. Small capsules sometimes visible. Weiqi, slightly bitter taste.

Herbs perennial, 60-120 cm tall. Rhizomes erect, with many fibrous roots. Stems terete, usually unbranched, glabrous. The leaves are spirally arranged, dense in the middle and upper part of the stem; sessile; leaves thickly papery, broadly lanceolate to strip-lanceolate, 2.5-5.5 cm long, 3-16 mm wide, apex acuminate, base Nearly round to broad wedge-shaped, glabrous on both sides, with fine serrated edges. Racemes terminal, 8-35 cm long, glabrous; bracts leaflike, narrowly lanceolate, shorter than flowers; pedicels 5-12 mm long, calyx tube cup-shaped, ca. 4 mm, glabrous , Lobes triangular-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, 2 mm wide, entire, glabrous; corolla blue-purple, 2.5-3 cm long, nearly two-lip shaped, glabrous outside, inner villous, Upper lip is 2-lobed, long spoon-shaped, and lower lip is 3 lobes oval. The edges of the lobes are densely covered with lashes; Hairy coat. Capsule obovate. Seeds are nearly semicircular, brown-red. Flower and fruit period: July to September.

Born in wet grasslands on plains or hillsides.

1. "Northeast Medicinal Plant History": "The root is used as a diuretic, emetic, and purgative agent."

2. "Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, swelling. Treatment of chronic nephritis, bronchitis; topical detoxification, snake bite."

Lobelia davidii Franch., A large species of the same genus, is similar to the previous species, but the plant is short, below 1 meter, with leaves lanceolate and fine serrated edges; calyx is about 1/2 shorter than the corolla. Distributed in the southwest, east to Jiangxi. In some areas, mountain stalks are also used as medicine.

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