蛇目菊，中药名。为菊科金鸡菊属植物两色金鸡菊CoreopsistinctoriaNutt.的全草。植物两色金鸡菊，全国各地均有栽培，原产北美。具有清湿热，解毒消痈之功效。主治湿热痢疾，目赤肿痛，痈肿疮毒。
She-mu-ju, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. Snake Gourd Chrysanthemum). It is the whole herb of Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt., a plant of the Chrysanthemum genus in the Compositae family. The plant is cultivated throughout the country and is native to North America. It has the functions of clearing damp-heat, detoxifying, and resolving abscesses. It is mainly used to treat damp-heat dysentery, red and swollen eyes, abscesses, and sores.

功效作用 Efficacy and Functions

清湿热，解毒消痈。
Clearing damp-heat, detoxifying and resolving abscesses.

主治 Indications

湿热痢疾，目赤肿痛，痈肿疮毒。
Damp-heat dysentery, red and swollen eyes with pain, carbuncles, and toxic sores.

用法用量 Dosage and Administration

内服：煎汤，15-30g。外用：适量，捣敷。
Internal use: Decoction, 15-30g. External use: appropriate amount, pounded for application.

相关论述 Relevant Discussion

《广西本草选编》：“清热解毒，化湿。主治急慢性痢疾，目赤肿痛，痈疮肿毒。”
"Guangxi Materia Medica Compilation": "Clears heat, detoxifies, and resolves dampness. Used to treat acute and chronic dysentery, red and swollen eyes with pain, and carbuncles with swelling and toxicity."

临床应用 Clinical Applications

治痈疮肿毒，鲜蛇目菊30-60g，加红糖适量，捣烂敷患处。（《本草图典》）
To treat carbuncles and toxic swellings, take 30-60g of fresh snake-eyed chrysanthemum, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, mash it into a paste, and apply it to the affected area. (From "Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica")

加工炮制 Processing and Preparation

采收加工：春、夏季采收，鲜用或切段晒干。
Harvest in spring or summer, and use fresh or cut into sections and sun-dried.

植物学信息 Botanical Information

植物种属：菊科金鸡菊属植物两色金鸡菊。
The plant belongs to the Asteraceae family and the Coreopsis genus, known as two-tone coreopsis.

形态特征 Morphological Characteristics

一年生草本，高60-120cm。茎直立，具细棱，无毛，上部稍有分枝。叶对生；叶片二回羽状分裂，裂片线形或线状披针形；下部和中部叶有柄；上部叶少有分裂，无叶柄。头状花序生于枝端，直径约3cm，梗纤细，长3-8cm；总苞片2层，外层总苞片较内层稍短，为线状长椭圆形，长约2mm，内层总苞片卵圆形，长5-6mm；舌状花1层，不育或少育，舌片黄色或上部黄色，基部呈深棕色，倒卵形，先端3浅裂；管状花两性，通常孕育，棕红色。瘦果线状长椭圆形，稍弯曲，无翅，无芒。花期6-8月。
An annual herbaceous plant, 60-120cm tall. The stem is erect, with fine ridges, glabrous, and slightly branched in the upper part. Leaves are opposite; leaf blades are bipinnately divided, with linear or linear-lanceolate lobes; lower and middle leaves have petioles; upper leaves are less divided and sessile. The capitulum inflorescence is terminal, about 3cm in diameter, with a slender peduncle 3-8cm long; involucral bracts in 2 rows, outer bracts slightly shorter than inner ones, linear-oblong, about 2mm long, inner bracts ovate, 5-6mm long; ligulate flowers unisexual or rarely fertile, yellow or yellowish at apex with dark brown base, obovate, apex shallowly 3-lobed; tubular flowers bisexual, usually fertile, reddish-brown. Achenes linear-oblong, slightly curved, wingless, awnless. Flowering period from June to August.

生长环境 Growing Environment

全国各地均有栽培，原产北美。
Cultivated throughout the country, native to North America.