Short bayberry fruit

[Pinyin] ǎi Yánɡ Méi Guǒ

[Alias​​] bayberry fruit, Yunnan bayberry, bayberry acid

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Yang Myricaceae Bayberry fruit plants in Yunnan.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Myrica nana Cheval.
Harvesting and storage: summer fruit will be ripe when picked, fresh.

[Original form] evergreen shrub, high 0.5-2m. More stout branchlets, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous or thin coriaceous; petiole length 1-4mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; blade oblong-shaped obovate to short wedge-obovate, 2.5-8cm, width 1-3cm, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, often more than a few thick central serrated leaves grow off the top concave glands, glands often do not fall below, glabrous or sometimes above the sparse pubescence on the veins; veins sunken above, the following processes. Dioecious; male inflorescence solitary and axillary, erect or upward sloping, long 1-1.5cm; single branch was extremely shortened spike-like, each branch with 1-3 male flowers, male flowers without bracteoles, a 1 - 3 stamens; female inflorescence at the base with a very short without significant branching, solitary and axillary, about 1.5cm, each usually with 2-4 branches of bracts and 2 female infertility, female with 2 small bud film, ovary glabrous. Drupe red, spherical, diameter of about 1-1.5cm. Flowering February-March, June-July period of fruit.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in 1500-3500m above sea level slopes in the forest edge and scrub.
Resource distribution: distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan.

[Taste] acid; astringent; of cool

【Indications】 Shibuya intestinal diarrhea; convergence lungs cough. Main diarrhea; dysentery; blood in the stool; cough

Dosage Oral, decoction,9-15g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"


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