An introduction to Jiyateng

Tripterygium wilfordii is a kind of herb, which has medicinal value, and the whole plant can be used as medicine. Next, let's take a look at this plant.

Artemisia angustifolia is a perennial herbaceous vine of Rubiaceae. Glabrous or nearly glabrous. Base woody, much branched. It smells when it's crushed. Born by streams, rivers, roadsides, forests and shrubs, often climbing on other plants or rocks, like a warm and humid environment. It is distributed both at home and abroad. The whole grass, root and fruit of the plant can be used medicinally. The names of traditional Chinese medicine are: chicken dung vine, chicken poop rattan fruit.

Indications: dispelling wind and dehumidification; digestion and accumulation; detoxification and detumescence; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia; food accumulation and abdominal distension; infantile dysentery; heatstroke; jaundice; hepatitis; hepatosplenomegaly; cough; dysentery; intestinal carbuncle; nameless swelling toxin; foot dampness swelling; burn injury; eczema; dermatitis; fall injury; snake Jiao scorpion sting.

Herbs trailing, base woody, 2-3 m tall, bald or slightly puberulent. Leaves opposite, stipitate; leaf blade submembranous, ovate, elliptic, rectangular-rounded to lanceolate, apex mucronate or acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, both surfaces bald or subbald; interleaf stipules triangular, 2-5 mm long, deciduous. Panicle axillary and terminal, expanded, branched into scorpion-shaped Cymes; flowers white-purple, sessile; calyx narrowly campanulate, ca. 3 mm; Corolla campanulate, tube 7-10 mm long, upper 5-lobed, valvate, inner face reddish purple, powdery pilose; stamens 5, filaments very short, inserted in Corolla tube; ovary inferior, 2-loculed, style filiform, 2, base healed. Berries globose, 5-7 mm in diam., shiny at maturity, straw yellow. Flowering in autumn.

Seed propagation: the ripe fruit is collected from October to November, rotted, peeled and stored in wet sand. Sowing from March to April, the soil was prepared to open a 1.3m wide bed, digging nests about 33cm according to row and nest distance, about 7cm deep, and sowing about 10 seeds in each hole. After watering human and animal dung water, it was covered with plant ash or fine soil about 1cm thick. From March to April, 33cm holes were opened according to row and plant distance, and the depth was about 7cm. About 10 seeds were sown in each hole. After pouring water from human and animal feces, the holes were covered with plant ash or fine soil about 1cm thick.

Cuttage propagation: 2-year-old stem vines were selected from February to March, cut into 25-30cm long, with more than 3 cuttings, digging nests according to row and nest distance of each 33cm on 1.3m border, 20-25cm deep, 3 cuttings per litter, each root should have 1 bud node exposed to the border surface, fill tight, pay attention to water, keep the soil moist.

Pharmacological effects of Tripterygium paniculata

1. Sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects: intraperitoneal injection of total alkaloids of Tripterygium paniculata can inhibit spontaneous activity in mice, prolong the sleep time of pentobarbital sodium, and have a certain sedative effect.

two。 Antibacterial activity: 0.5g/ml decoction has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Shigella flexneri in vitro, and the extract also has bacteriostatic effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.

3. Effect on smooth muscle: total alkaloids of Tripterygium wilfordii can inhibit intestinal muscle contraction and antagonize intestinal muscle contracture caused by acetylcholine.

4. Other effects: Castanopsis lanceolata injection and ether extract have local anesthetic effect of conduction block on toad sciatic nerve and gastrocnemius muscle.

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