Large white lantern

Pinyin name ] [ Dà Yè Bá I Hu āDē n Lon
[ alias ] lion ball, Yama Mari, white, red dragonfly wind, red general, hair Chengtong, nine lamp
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the family Verbenaceae canescens. With root plant.
Latin botanical mineral name: Clerndendrum canescens Wall.[Cleredendron animal viscosum auct.non Vent.; Cl. Petasites ( Lour. ) acut. Non Moore]
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, wash, cut, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of gray green, Bush, tall 1-3.5m. Entire plant densely spreading or backward pale brown villous. Branchlets slightly four prismatic, spinal osteoporosis, stem is hollow. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.5-12cm; leaf blade thickly papery, subcordate, broadly ovate or oval, long 6-18cm, wide 4-15cm, apex acuminate, base subcordate or truncate, margin dentate or entire, both surfaces pubescent, veins densely gray brown spreading villous. Cymes dense head shape, often2-5branches arising from the stem top; bracts leaflike, ovate or elliptic; calyx campanulate, ca.1.3cm, have fluff, changes from green to red, with 5edges and sparse glandular dots,5 crack greatly as calyx middle, lobes broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white or pale red, outside glandular hairs or pilose, corolla tube slender, ca.2mm, lobes 5, obovate-oblong, outward spreading,5-6mm long; stamens 4, and style of the same extended corollaceous outside. Drupe subglobose, ca.7mm, ripe when violet black. Hidden in the red enlarged persistent calyx. Flower, month of fruit period 4-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 220-880m hillside road or sparse woods.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi etc..
[ ] taste Gan; light; cool
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and toxic material; cooling blood to stop bleeding. The main cold and fever; red and white dysentery of tuberculosis hemoptysis; sore;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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