Badong Bergenin

[Pinyin] Bā Dōnɡ Yán Bái Cài

[Alias​​] rock cabbage, Chinese cabbage stone

[Source]
Medicine-based Source: Scrophulariaceae cabbage plants to stay the whole plant.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Triaenophora rupestris (Hemsl.) solereder [Rehmannia rupestris Hemsl.]
Harvesting and storage: summer, autumn harvest, dried in the sun.

[Original form] stay cabbage, perennial herb, 25-50cm. Whole plant densely white cotton wool. The base of the stem simple or branched, stems, stalks and calyx often formed on the retina like cotton wool. Basal leaves thick, leathery; with a long handle, long handle 3-6cm; leaves ovate oblong, 7-13cm, apex obtuse, base near-circular or wide wedge-shaped, with rough serrated edges, or shallow lobes with teeth; stem leaves and basal leaves similar, gradually narrowing upwards, on top of a bract. Take a long 0.6-2cm of stem; bracteoles bar, was born in central stalk; calyx length 1-1.5cm, calyx teeth 5, and 3 of the deep crack, a small crack tooth length 3-6mm; Corolla purple, narrow tube-like, straight or slightly curved, long 4cm, outside the long soft hair, upper lip broadly ovate lobes, lower lip lobes oblong-ovate; stamens 4, two strong, filaments glabrous, the Health Department is a long flexible hair; ovary ovoid, glabrous, style tip 2 lobed, lobes nearly round. Capsule oblong. Seeds small, oblong. Flowering from July to September.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in 290-1200m above sea level on the cliff.
Resource distribution: distributed in Hubei, Sichuan.

Sweet [taste]; of cool

【Indications】 kidney; eyesight; menstruation. Main head faint more tears; kidney lower back pain; irregular menstruation

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,10-15g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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