What is the gut-breaker? What are the effects and effects?

I believe readers who have seen Mr. Jin Yong's "Divine carving Swordsmen" will remember that the heartbroken grass found by Master Tianzhu cured Yang Guo with poison. Today, the editor wants to talk about this broken-hearted grass! There has been more than one case of gut-breaking grass poisoning. In 2013, a poisoning incident occurred in Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Yunshan City, Yunnan Province. So what on earth is heartbroken grass? What is the efficacy and function of gut-breaking grass? Is the gut-broken grass edible? What happens to animals when they eat?

What on earth is heartbreak grass?

Scutellaria officinalis, also known as tea medicine, contains highly poisonous sinomenine. It gets its name because the intestines will become black and stick after the broken intestines are taken, and people will die of abdominal pain. Gut-breaking grass is not a recommendation, but a general name for a group of plants. Such as wolf poison, aconitum, Tripterygium wilfordii, of which the most famous is the hook kiss of the genus Leguminosae, and the broken intestine grass poisoned by Huangmou in Guangdong is also hook kiss.

How poisonous is the heartbreak grass? How to treat it?

Gut-breaking grass has been famous since ancient times, but it is not the so-called strangulation of intestines. But because it contains kouroxine can inhibit the victim's central nervous system, so that the victim limbs weakness, vague language, visual field ghosting, vomiting and diarrhea, unbearable abdominal pain, and finally died of respiratory paralysis 4-7 hours after poisoning.

The general detoxification method is gastric lavage, take charcoal ash, then use lye and emetic, after gastric lavage with mung beans, honeysuckle and licorice can be detoxified. In addition, if there is no these, the victim can be infused with some goose blood, duck blood, sheep blood, will have a little slowing effect.

What is the environment in which gut-broken grass grows?

Euphorbia angustifolia generally does not have high requirements for the environment, and is distributed in various provinces in southern China, such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces. Generally grow in the roadside, hillside grass, is a kind of vine, vitality is relatively strong. In addition, special attention should be paid to the identification of Gelsemium, which is very similar to Flos Lonicerae in shape and growth environment. Mistakenly ate the poisoned, often mistook the hook and kiss for honeysuckle.

Is the gut-broken grass edible? What happens to animals when they eat?

The gut herb tastes bitter and can be used as medicine all over the body. It is generally used for dietotherapy for skin diseases, rheumatic bone pain, fall injury, snake injury and so on. But it needs to be processed before it can be used.

Among animals, it is common to feed pigs with gut-breaking grass, which is said to kill parasites in pigs, prevent and cure intestinal diseases and increase appetite. Therefore, pigs can eat gut-broken grass, but generally can not add salt. Other livestock such as cattle and sheep can also be used.

The efficacy and function of gut-breaking grass

1. Broken intestines can be used as medicine all over the body, and the whole body is covered with treasures. Spring is a good season for harvesting broken-gut grass. The medicinal properties of the herb are bitter, pungent, warm and highly toxic. Generally only for external use, avoid internal administration, mainly for the treatment of skin diseases, rheumatic bone pain, fall injury, hemorrhoids, snake injuries and so on.

2. Feed the pigs well with the leaves of gut grass and pig feed to combat parasites, prevent and cure asthma and intestinal diseases, and increase appetite. Pigs fed with gut grass grow fast, white and red, and their fur is shiny.

3. The root of Herba Euphorbiae was mixed with nux vomica to soak the medicinal wine to treat the injury caused by falling and rheumatism.

4. Gut-breaking grass can be used to treat stubborn ringworm, take the two-layer skin of gut grass, wild radish root, rock sugar each 30 grams, mash and vinegar can be applied to the affected area.

5. External application with fresh leaves of gut grass can treat sores and scabies.