Beans Chai

[source] from the "Guizhou Chinese herbal medicine". [name] D ò u Ji ǎ o Ch á I [name] Root of Delavay Clovershrub English [alias] southwest 秔 sub branches. [source] Medicine source: drug legume southwest 秔 sub shoot root. Latin plant animal mineral name: Campylotropis delavayi (Franch.) Schindl.[Lespedeza delavayi Franch.] Harvesting and storage: the summer and autumn harvest, digging roots, wash, slice, dried. [] the original form Southwest 秔 sub pin bush, tall 1-3m. Branchlets angled, in addition to lobular above and the corolla, is adnate silk. Three leaves; stipules small, lanceolate; leaflets ovate or obovate, cardboard, terminal leaflet slightly larger, 4.5-6cm long, 2.5-4.5cm wide, apex rounded, slightly concave, base rounded slightly narrow, margin entire, puberulent below. Dense racemes, panicles, forming a large terminal flower butterfly shaped, long shank length 5-6mm; calyx campanulate, 5 - lobed calyx teeth narrowly lanceolate, calyx tube, over two times longer, the above 2 connate, with silky hairs; corolla purple, glabrous, ca. 1cm, keel, upper petal, wing flap a few long. Pod elliptic, long 5-7mm, prominent veins, be sparsely sericeous. Florescence in October, fruit period of 10-11 months. [distribution] The ecological environment in the mountain slope, the grass. Distribution: distribution of resources in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan etc.. [] cool taste bitter; Xin; [] the lung meridian [indications] Shufeng heat. The main wind hot cold fever; [usage]: Decoction taken orally, 15-30g. [] excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.hk/