The specific effects of Guanzhong

It is normal that no one knows what Guanzhong is, because it is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, which is mainly used to make prescriptions with other Chinese medicinal materials. However, it tastes slightly bitter when you drink it, but overall it has many functions and effects. It can be used to detoxify and stop bleeding. However, this thing itself is toxic, so it is best to take it under the guidance of a doctor as much as possible.

Main Value

Medicinal value

Source: It is a plant of the genus Cyrtomium in the family Dryopteris, Cyrtomium fortunei J.Smith., and its rhizome and petiole residues are used as medicine.

Collection season: It can be collected in all seasons, but autumn is the best time to collect it.

Pharmacological action: The decoction of this product can expel pig roundworms and enhance the contraction of the uterus of rabbits in vitro and in vivo.

Nature, flavor and function: bitter, slightly cold, slightly toxic. Clears away heat and soothes the liver, detoxifies, kills parasites and stops bleeding.

Main indications: prevention of measles, influenza, colds, epidemic meningitis, dizziness, hypertension, dysentery, hematuria, bloody stools, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, and hookworm disease. The dosage is 10-30 grams. Pregnant women should not take it.

Reference recipe

1. Prevention of measles and influenza: Grind the root of Xiaoguanzhong into fine powder. Take 1-1.5g per day for children under 2 years old and 1.5-3g per day for children over 3 years old, divided into 2 doses and taken with boiled water. Or take 10-15g of Xiaoguanzhong root daily and soak it in boiled water.

2. Drinking water disinfection: Put 60 grams of Xiaoguanzhong rhizome or Xiaoguanzhong leaf into every 100 kilograms of water, and change it every 20 days or so.

3. Turbid leucorrhea: 15g of Xiaoguanzhong, 10g each of Plantago, Polygonum multiflorum, Aquilaria paniculata, and Smilax glabra, decocted in water and taken orally.

4. Dysentery: 25g of Xiaoguanzhong, 12g each of Sophora japonica and Sanguisorba officinalis, decocted in water and taken orally.

5. Influenza: 2.5 catties of Xiaoguanzhong rhizome, 60 grams of honeysuckle, 30 grams of licorice, 120 grams of scutellaria, decocted in water and drink as tea. Can be used for prevention of 100 people. Or use 15 grams each of the rhizome of Xiaoguanzhong and Solidago asiatica and 10 grams of wild chrysanthemum, decocted in water and taken orally.

6. Epidemic encephalitis: 5 jin of rhizomes of Scutellaria baicalensis and 3 jin of Isatis indigotica, boil them into thick soup and drink as tea. Can provide prevention for 100 people.

7. Acute icteric infectious hepatitis: 30 grams each of the rhizome of Scutellaria baicalensis, phoenix tail grass, verbena, allium wilfordii, and Selaginella mori, decocted in water and taken orally.

8. Increased transaminase: 120 grams of Xiao Guanzhong rhizome, 30 grams each of Ardisia japonica and Serissa chinensis, decocted in water and taken orally. In most cases, the condition can return to normal within 10-30 days.

Xiaoguanzhong is a perennial herb with odd-pinnate compound leaves densely clustered by rhizomes. The petiole is 15-25 cm long, straw-colored, covered with ovate and linear scales. The leaf blade is broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, papery, 25-45 cm long and 10-15 cm wide, with a few fibrous scales along the rachis and petiole. There are 10-20 pairs of pinnae, alternate, and the pinnae at the fresh end are unequally three-lobed. The pinnae on both sides are sickle-lanceolate, with slightly ear-like protrusions on the upper side of the base and rounded wedge-shaped on the lower side. There are notched fine serrations on the edges, and the leaf veins are reticular, with 1-2 internal small veins. The sporangium groups are scattered on the back of the leaves, attached to the top of the internal veins, and arranged in 3-4 irregular rows on both sides of the main vein. The sporangium cover is large, round shield-shaped, and entire.