Octagonal black

[Pinyin] Bā Jiǎo Wū

[Alias​​] blood Lin [Hubei, Hunan], Gold Yu, Lin-man [Fujian], Ligularia, iron winter amaranth, large horseshoe, large Saruma, horseshoe Angelica, lotus leaf

[Source] Compositae HKUST Wu Wu wind grass species large wind grass Farfugium japonicum (L) Kitam. [Liguaria Kaempferi Kino]. To the whole plant medicine. Wild in the mountains, valleys, cliffs, etc. under. China's southeastern provinces are located. Summer and autumn harvest, fresh or dried.

[Original form] evergreen perennial herb, 30-70 cm. Rhizome short, thin, and the raw bar branch root. Basal leaves are long-handled, ridden, kidney-shaped leaves, 4 to 15 cm long, wide and 6 to 30 cm thick, shiny, wavy edges, convex-shaped head with a fine-tooth. Scape erect, 30 to 75 cm high, with dense hair childhood, getting off, there are sparsely bract, bract oblong or oblong lanceolate, sessile, base more amplexicaul. 10 December, flowering, flower heads into the sparse raw corymbose, 4 to 6 cm in diameter, have stems, 1.5 to 7 cm. Involucre cylindrical, bracts oblong, apex acute, a little fine hairs; edge of the flower tongue, long 3 to 4 cm wide and 5 to 6 mm, the central flowers tubular, yellow. Achenes cylindrical, 5 to 6.5 mm, with grain and short-haired, crested a long 8 to 11 mm, brown.

[Taste] acrid, sweet, bitter, cold.

【Indications】 blood to stop bleeding, swelling Sanjie. For cough, hemoptysis, blood in the stool, irregular menstruation, bruises, mastitis, carbuncle swollen boils poison.

Dosage 0.5 to 1 two; external use, wrap the affected area smashed fresh products.

[Excerpt] "National Herbal Compendium,"
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/