Big licorice

Pinyin name ] [ Dà Shù Gā n Cǎ o
[ alias ] Donna, licorice, Chinese general, tree wood hot
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Rubiaceae plants fruit flower root, stem.
Latin animal mineral name: Schizomrssaenda dehisces ( Craib ) Li [Mrssaenda dehiscens Craid]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, clean, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of flower bush, tall 1.5-3m. Rarely treelike. Branchlets shoots pilose, scattered light yellow lenticels. Leaves opposite; petiole 1-2cm; stipules2 deep cleft to middle to near base, lobes caudate-acuminate, pilose; leaf blade elliptic oblong to lanceolate oblong, long 10-20cm, wide 4-8cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate, both surfaces pilose, sparsely above, below and very dense, leaf veins very obvious. Cymes terminal; bracts small; golden yellow flowers, nearly sessile; calyx ca.3mm, some flowers with 1lobes expanded into phyllodes, white; corollaceous canister shape, throat slightly dilated, long 1.5-2CM, sericeous. Capsule pours egg form or turbinate, ca.1cm, tawny.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in tropical forests and valleys, hills, sandstone.
Resource distribution: located in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] taste Gan; flat
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; cough phlegm; diuresis detumescence. Primary lung heat cough; sore throat; nephritis; urinary tract infections
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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