Baiyun melon

[Source] This product is only contained in the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", says: Baiyun melon, sweet flavor, non-toxic. Raw water at the edge of the Jinsha River. Stems very hard. Dark green light green leaves. Open purple. Root fruiting, raw food is not hungry. According to "South Yunnan Materia Medica" Textual finishing group for Convolvulaceae plant blue flowers Kwa.

[Pinyin] Bái Yún Guā

[Alias​​] mountain radish

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Convolvulaceae plant's roots Kwa blue flowers.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Merremia yunnanensis (Courch.etGagnep.) RCFang [Ipomoea yunnanensis Courch.et Gagnep.]
Harvesting and storage: fall, winter, digging roots, remove the soil, sliced​​, dried in the sun.

[Original form] blue flowers Kwa perennial herb wrap. With spindle-shaped tubers, starch. Stems slender, cylindrical, with thin edges, densely pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole length 0.4-2cm, densely pubescent; diamond or diamond-shaped oval leaves, long 3-4.5cm, width 1.5-3cm, sudden sharp tip or sharp tip, with a small tip, base cuneate, the whole edge, both sides densely brown sericeous; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, nearly parallel rather than curved arc. Cymes axillary, with 1-3 flowers raw, or discrimination because of peduncle two branches and with many flowers; bracts and bracteoles scale-like; sepals 5, unequal length, the foreign two obovate-oval shape, length 0.8-1.2cm, with a short pointed tip, inner sepals obovate or elliptic, 1.3-1.4cm, apex obtuse; corolla light blue, narrow bell-shaped, long 3.5-4cm, short triangular crown canopy, sparse hair was brown edge; stamens 5. Unequal length, the Ministry spent fibroin expanded hair; in hairless room, 2 rooms, style slender, stigma 2 ball. Capsule oblong, 4 split. Seeds black, glabrous.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in 1400-3000m above sea level slope grass, shrubs or grass under pine trees.
Resource distribution: distributed in Yunnan and Sichuan.

[Taste] Gan; slightly acrid; level

【Indications】 phlegm meridians. Master stroke is not language; phlegm congestion; hemiplegia

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,3-10g. Or Aogao service.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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