Compendium of Materia Medica: "There is a kind of Rhizoma Coptidis in Sichuan, which is born next to Zeze and has yellow hair all over the body, such as the hair on the back of a dog. It is called Shuihuanglian, which is quite small. City people sold it as a fake. " Rhizoma coptidis is used as medicine and tastes bitter and cold. Liver, lung and large intestine meridians entered.
According to the records of Sichuan traditional Chinese medicine, it is bitter in taste, cold in nature and non-toxic, and has the effects of clearing away damp heat and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat jaundice, dysentery, asthma, measles complicated with pneumonia, red nose and eyebrows, and hot sores.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treating runny nose."
Classified drugs: "Treating wuhuang, asthma, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and dispersing fire sores." This medicine is widely used among people.
"Flora of Medicinal Plants in Desert Areas of China" records: (1) Treatment of lobar pneumonia: Thalictrum sagittatum 25 g (or root 15 g), Lepidium japonicum 15 g, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch 10 g, decocted in water; (2) Treatment of measles complicated with pneumonia in children: 7.5g of Chinese pine root, 7.5g of cicada slough and 7.5g of Inula flower are decocted in water; (3) Treating dysentery: decocting 25g of Thalictrum nigrum and 25g of Portulaca oleracea in water.
A preliminary investigation was carried out on the plants named "Coptis chinensis" in the Three Gorges reservoir area of Chongqing 13, among which 8 species were medicinal plants in the reservoir area.