Wild sesame seeds are used as medicine by the people, and the whole grass is harvested in May and June, which is dried in the shade or rarely used. Flowers are used to treat diseases of uterus and urinary system, leucorrhea and menstrual difficulty, and whole grass is used for traumatic injury and infantile malnutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine classifies its efficacy as a blood-cooling hemostatic; Diuretic and stranguria-relieving drugs. So how much do you know about the efficacy of wild sesame seeds? The following are the effects of wild sesame seeds I have carefully prepared for you. I hope it helps you!

Morphological characteristics of wild sesame.

Perennial herbs. Rootstock has long underground creeping branches. The stem is as high as 1m, solitary, erect, quadrangular, shallow-grooved, hollow and almost hairless. The lower leaves of the stem are ovoid or heart-shaped, 4.5-8.5 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide, with tail-shaped apex and heart-shaped base; The upper part of the stem is oval-lanceolate, which is longer and narrower than the leaves at the lower part of the stem. The top of the stem is tapered in a long tail shape, with slightly curved teeth at the edge, a small protruding callus tip at the tooth tip, and grass and short bristles on both sides. The petiole is 7cm long and the gradient in the upper part of the stem is short; Bracts are usually stipitate. Cymes have 4- 14 flowers, which are inserted at the apex of stem, and bracts are narrow or filiform, 2-3 mm long, acute and ciliate. Calyx bell-shaped, about 1.5 cm long, about 4 mm wide, sparsely hairy outside, calyx teeth needle-shaped, 7- 10 mm long, ciliate; Corolla white or light yellow, about 2 cm long, slightly higher than the tube, cystic expansion, mouth width of 6 mm. The outer upper part is covered with sparse hair or nearly villous, and the rest is almost hairless. The inner crown tube has loops near the base, lip-shaped edge, upright upper lip, inverted oval or oblong, about 1.2cm long, rounded or slightly shorter top end, with predeterminable hairs on the edge. Staminal filaments are flat, puberulent and adhere to each other, and anthers are dark wood-colored and puberulent; Style filiform, shallow apex nearly equal to 2; Disk cup-shaped; Ovary lobes oblong, glabrous. Nutlets are obovoid and light brown. The flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to August.

Usage and dosage of wild sesame

For oral administration: decoct, 3 ~ 5 yuan, or grind. External use: fresh mashed or ground and mixed.

Efficacy and Function of Wild Sesame

Cooling blood to stop bleeding; Promoting blood circulation and relieving pain; Diuretic and detumescence. Main lung heat coughing up blood; Bloody; Irregular menstruation; Collapse and leakage; Edema; Leucorrhea; Stomach pain; Infant malnutrition; Fall and get injured; Swelling poison. Used for traumatic injury, infantile malnutrition, leukorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, menoxenia, nephritis and cystitis.

① northeast materia medica: flowers, treating leucorrhea and dysmenorrhea.

② Heilongjiang Chinese medicine: flowers, clearing blood and stopping bleeding, treating irregular menstruation and abdominal pain before and after menstruation.

③ Zhejiang folk herbs: stems, flowers, relieving cough and blood, clearing lung heat.

Supplementary formula of wild sesame

① Treatment of hemoptysis and cough: five yuan to one or two yuan for grass suction and five yuan for Pyrola. Wearing fried clothes. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

② Treatment of cervicitis, dysuria and irregular menstruation: five yuan for wild sesame. Decoct with water twice a day. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of deficiency-heat in children: wild sesame San Qian, wolfberry San Qian and Dendrobium nobile. Decoct with water. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)

④ Treating blood stranguria: fry wild sesame seeds and grind them into powder, and serve them to San Qian with hot rice wine every time. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)

⑤ Treatment of flash, contusion and sprain: fresh silkworm eggs, whole grass, fresh Eupatorium odoratum and fresh gardenia leaves. * * * smash and apply externally. (Commonly used Chinese herbal medicine formula)

⑥ Fracture treatment: baotuan grass, Clematis chinensis, Jiegudan and Jieguteng are equal, and the wound is pounded and fried. (Guizhou herbs)

⑦ Treating swollen poison and poisonous insect bites; Wild sesame, lettuce and day lily are mashed and applied to the affected areas. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)