Dwarf toadflax

[Pinyin] ǎi Liǔ Chuān Yú

[Source] source based medicine: Scrophulariaceae Linaria plants and more branches of the whole plant.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Linaria buriatica Tarcz.et Benth.
Harvesting and storage: summer, fall harvest, cut and dried.

[Original form] perennial herb, 8-20cm. Stems from the base of a very multi-branched, branches often shops scattered. Leaves alternate, more dense; to the narrow strip of needle-shaped leaves, with a single pulse, length 1.5-5cm, glabrous. Raceme was born in Acremonium, long 3-7cm, rachis, pedicels densely glandular-pubescent; bracts lanceolate strip, by nearly 1cm; calyx 5 lobed, lobes long and narrow strip lanceolate, length 4-6mm, width 1mm, both sides are glandular hairs; corolla yellow, tubular corolla tube, the base distance from the long 12-15mm, eaves department two lips, upper lip 2 lobed, lobes long 2mm, top obtuse, lower lip lateral lobes oblong, width 2-5mm, the lobes narrow, from a long 8-15mm, slightly curved bow; stamens 4, in front of one pair of long stamen anthers before and after each side, the powder chamber in parallel, after the crack deviates; stigma often slightly short. Egg capsule spherical, long 9mm, diameter 7mm. Seeds discoid, with wide wings, the central tumor penetration. Flowering from June to August.

[Habitat distribution] environment: Born in grassland, wasteland and sand dunes.
Resource distribution: distributed in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia.

[] Bitter taste; cold

【Indications】 heat and dampness; detoxification swelling. The main heat jaundice, erysipelas; sore throat; sore tongue

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,10-15g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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