Product name : Herba Glechomae

Item : GMP

Details :
    Touguxiao, also known as Lianqiancao, Desmodium, and Huoxuedan, is the dry aerial part of the perennial herb Huoxuedan in the family Lamiaceae. It is mainly produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Pungent in the mouth, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature, enters liver, kidney, urinary bladder channel. Gong is good at removing dampness and treating stranguria, clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling blood stasis and reducing swelling. It is suitable for hot stranguria, stone stranguria, damp-heat jaundice, sores, carbuncles, and bruises. Small evergreen shrub with strong aroma. About 1.5 meters high. The stem is light green, the branches are thick and thick, the branchlets are red or green, and the bark is often peeled off in flakes. Single leaves alternate; leathery; elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 4.5-9.5 cm long, apex pointed, base cuneate, margin sparsely short serrated, tooth tips with black or brown glandular spots, greenish white below, grayish brown (back black) pus. Racemes axillary or panicle branches terminal; peduncle densely covered with white pubescence; pedicels very short; bracts triangular or ovate, 1 pair of bracteoles, ovate; calyx shallow disc, 5 parted; Corolla pot-shaped or campanulate, white-green, 5-toothed, lobes slightly recurved; stamens 10, attached to corolla base, anthers with awns; style simple 1. The capsule is spherical, dark blue, and the flesh is similar to a berry. Seeds numerous, light yellow, very small. Born in the sun on the edge of hillside shrubs. To the bones eliminate coldness, round leaves, long vines, grow in damp, cold places, edible leaves, and have the effect of reducing swelling and dispersing stasis. In case of sprains and sprains, mash it and apply wine to the affected area, the effect is excellent.

       The efficacy and function of Touguxiao
      (1) Efficacy of Touguxiao
       Expelling wind and removing dampness, controlling rheumatic arthralgia, rheumatic paralysis, promoting blood circulation and promoting granulation, and controlling frostbite.
      "Baicaojing": cure bruises, malaria, postpartum convulsions, abdominal carbuncle, stool poisoning, hemorrhoids;
       Wang Anqing's "Collecting Medicines": Divergent head wind and wind evil. To treat brain leakage, white turbidity and hot shower, swelling and pain of jade stems, pound the juice and drink it with wine.
       "Compendium Supplements": Qufeng Sandu. Decoction to wash all sores and scabies.
       "Materia Medica Seeking the Original": expelling rheumatism, relieving bone pain. Soaking in wine soothes tendons and activates collaterals, relieves traumatic injury (pain), and taking juice to mix wine is more effective.
       "Plant Test of Plant Names and Facts": controls hematemesis and bleeding.
       "Chinese Plant Illustrated Book": It can be used as a tonic. Treat chronic pneumonia.
       "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": antipyretic, antitussive, thirst quenching, hemostasis, diuretic. Treatment of epilepsy fever, malnutrition, and scrofula in children; grinding the juice to make red eyes; rubbing with salt to paste swollen toxins and rheumatic tinea.
       "Anhui Medicinal Materials": Treatment of bladder stones.
       "Compilation of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Folk": Fresh grass smashed into juice and externally applied to support ear cold (mumps).
       "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": reducing swelling and relieving pain, breaking accumulation. Control women's lower abdomen pain.
       "Guiyang Folk Medicinal Herbs": Treating red collapse and leukorrhagia, tuberculosis.
       "Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine": Treat high blood pressure.
       "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Annals": treat rheumatism numbness, muscle and bone pain, jaundice, lung abscess.
       (2) The effect of Touguxiao
        Choleretic effect: It can promote the bile secretion of liver cells, increase the bile in the hepatic bile duct, increase the internal pressure, relax the biliary sphincter, and make the bile discharge[1].
        Diuretic effect: intragastric administration of the decoction in rats has a significant diuretic effect, and the diuretic effect gradually decreases after continuous application. Anesthetized rabbit test also has obvious diuretic effect.
        Stone dissolving effect:
       It can make urine acidic and dissolve stones that exist under alkaline conditions.

​Barcode: GMP
Ingredients: Touguxiao
Specifications: 16oz (454g)
Efficacy: expelling wind, dehumidification. Control rheumatic paralysis, frostbite.