Mussels flowers

[ B, n ] Pinyin names to be Hu.
[ source ] Commelinaceae Rhoeo plant purple evergreen Rhoeo discolor ( L ' Her. ) Hance, with flowers and leaves. Annual recoverable, fresh or dried, or will take the steamer for about 10 minutes, dried.
[ ] taste Gan, light, cool.
[ function ] clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. For Feizao cough, hemoptysis, pertussis, lymph node tuberculosis, diarrhea, hematochezia.
[ usage] fresh leaves 1 to 2 or two, 20 ~ 30 flowers dried flowers.
[ ]" from the compilation of Chinese herbal medicine"
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