The Chinese medicine Da Jiu Gu Niu is the root of the plant Aceraceae Acer pentaphyllum. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxification, stopping cough and relieving pain, and can be used to treat symptoms such as lung heat cough, abscesses, boils, and bruises. The specific formula for treating mastitis with Da Jiu Gu Niu is as follows!
[Formula for treating mastitis with Da Jiu Gu Niu]
Chinese medicine believes that Da Jiu Gu Niu has the effects of clearing heat and detoxification, stopping cough, and relieving pain, and is commonly used for lung heat cough, mastitis, parotitis, abscesses, boils, and bruises.
"National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Clears heat and detoxifies, relieves pain, stops cough. Mainly used for lung heat cough, parotitis, mastitis, boils and swelling."
1. Treatment of lung heat cough: Da Jiu Gu Niu root (peeled) 5 qian, xiang ling grass 2 qian, wa grass 2 qian. Grind together into powder, take 2 qian each time, twice a day.
2. Treatment of mastitis, parotitis, boils, and abscesses: Da Jiu Gu Niu, chong lou, bai ji, xiao nian yao, wu xiang xue teng, equal parts, grind into powder, mix with honey or vinegar for external application.
[Identification of Da Jiu Gu Niu]
Da Jiu Gu Niu is cylindrical, with a length of 3.7-7.5cm, and a grayish-white or light brown surface that is opaque. If the outer skin is not removed, there may be 3-4 rings and longitudinal lines, and a layer of outer skin can be peeled off, resembling fibers.
Obvious knife marks can be seen. There is a concave or protruding residual stem scar at the top. It is firm and not easily broken, and the section is uneven, resembling a cork-like texture. It has a slight odor and a slightly bitter taste.
[Morphological characteristics of Da Jiu Gu Niu]
Da Jiu Gu Niu is a perennial subshrub herb with a height of about 1m. The rhizome is thick, cylindrical, purple-brown, striped, sparsely covered with soft hairs in the upper part, and hairless in the lower part.
Leaves are opposite; petiole is 1.5-6cm long, with no or nearly no petiole in the upper leaves; leaf blade heart-shaped or ovate-heart-shaped, 6-11cm long and 3-9cm wide, smaller in the upper leaves, ovate or lanceolate;
The apex is gradually pointed or acute, the base is obtuse and round, the margin has irregular coarse serrations, the leaf surface is sparsely covered with soft hairs or nearly hairless, and the leaf back is covered with tiny stiff hairs; no or nearly no petiole; 6-7 pairs of lateral veins.
The flowers are small and unisexual; the male inflorescence is umbel-like or umbel-like, born at the apex or in the leaf axil, 8-15cm long; the calyx is hairless, the lobes are blunt triangular;
The petals are spoon-shaped; the male onions are 8 (-10); the stamens are linear, about 2mm long; the anthers are oval; the disc is purple-red; the sterile ovary is conical, about 1mm long.
The female inflorescence is cymose, born at the apex or in the upper leaf axil, drooping when fruiting; there are 2 leaf-like bracts, white, covered with soft hairs, and the edge has eyelashes; no calyx, petals, and stamens.
The fruit is supported by enlarged bracts, with a diameter of 3-4mm, covered with soft hairs and veins, borne in the lower part of the bracts, and the bracts expand when fruiting, broadly elliptic or nearly circular, with a diameter of 2-2.5cm, with a reticulate vein. One seed. Flowering period in autumn.
