Barbata

This product Labiatae Scutellaria barbata Scutellaria barbata D. Don of the whole plant. (English) Barbed Shullcap Herb

Alias: and the first grass, narrow Ye Hanxin grass, brush the grass.

Plant Form: Perennial herb, 15 ~ 50cm. Stem square, glabrous. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate triangular lanceolate, length 0.7 ~ 3.2cm, width 0.4 ~ 1.5cm, base truncate or rounded, blunt edge of a sparse wavy teeth, the following have glandular dots; petiole short or nearly None. Flowers solitary stems or branches the upper leaf axils, into a unilateral raceme; calyx purple, about 2mm, high upper lip back scutellum about 1mm, increase in fruit; corolla blue-purple, about 1.3cm, crown tube base front of the cystic lobe trapezoidal in the lower lip; stamens 4, the second strong. Small flat ball nuts, with a tumor. Flowering from May to October, the fruit of 6 to 11 months.

Was born in Tanabe, roadside. The main production of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan.

Collect and process: summer, autumn leaf lush harvest, washed and dried.

Chemical composition: with wild baicalein (scutellarein), Scutellarin (scutellarin), carthamin (carthamidin), different carthamin (isocarthamidin) and alkaloids.
Medical Network www.PharmNet.com.cn finishing
Nature: cold, spicy, bitter.

Indications: detoxification, circulation diuretic. Swollen drugs for boils, sore throat, snake bites, or flutter pain, edema, jaundice.
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/