Dwarf Changshan

[Pinyin] ǎi Zi Chánɡ Shān

[Alias​​] Wood Hill Conch

[Source]
Medicine-based sources: the little Ye Danzi Verbenaceae plant roots.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Gmelina delauayana P. Dop [G.montana WWSmith]
Harvesting and storage: autumn mining roots, washed, sliced​​, dried in the sun.

[Original form] small Ye Danzi, no small thorn bush, plant height 0.3-2m. Branchlets slender, cylindrical, dark brown, soft hair was sparse, after shedding, there are sparsely small lenticels. Single Leaves opposite; petiole 0.3-1cm; blade broadly ovate or almost rounded diamond-shaped, long 1.5-2.5cm, width 1.2-2.2cm or less, base slightly oblique, wedge-shaped or obtuse, entire or the lower part of a 1-2 shallow coarse teeth, apex obtuse tip. Surface glabrous, densely silvery white on the back of glandular dots. Inflorescences cone, spend less, spend big, long 3-4cm, pedicel short, nearly apex with 2 small bracts lanceolate; calyx bell-shaped, about 1cm. Dark purple, calyx teeth 5, triangular to irregular oval, length 5-7mm, are small glands, teeth and calyx tube calyx sparsely black discoid glands 1-8; corolla lavender, is the beginning of glandular and yellow glands, after shedding, funnel-shaped, tip two cleft lip, upper lip entire or two lobed, lower lip lobes grew up in the last wing. Inside yellow, stamens 4, two strong, long stamens slightly out of corolla outside. Drupe obovate, 10-16mm, exocarp fleshy, black when dry, have places in Guangdong increased bowl. June flowering, the fruit from July to September.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in 1500-1700m above sea level, under the limestone forest, shrub, or drying on the slopes.
Resource distribution: distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan.

[Taste] Weixin; and warm

[Indications] qi; consumer product, cut malaria. Staple product qi stagnation; abdominal pain, bloating; long malaria

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,15-30g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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