Hakusan Polygonum

[Pinyin] Bái Shān Liǎo

[Source]
Medicine-based Source: White Mountain Polygonaceae Polygonum plants the whole plant.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Polygonum laxmanni Lepech.
Harvesting and storage: summer harvest, dry.

[Original form] perennial herb. Stems upright, into the word-like, branching from the base to carry out a strong, sparse branches, many with hard hair or no hair. Care sheaths brown, slightly membranous, with sparse long-haired; leaves oblong or long-lanceolate, long 3-8cm, width 0.3-0.7cm, apex acuminate, slightly obtuse, base cuneate, anti-roll edge to the back, two Fu Sheng's side with sparse hair, panicles carry, loose, except at the top of inflorescence branches 1-2, almost all axillary; bracts lanceolate, dark brown back with a keel-like processes, the edge of the base and sparse hair growth , there are 3-4 flowers; small pedicels 0.2-0.25cm, than the bracts long, glabrous, apex with a joint; perianth about 3mm; fruit of long 4-4.5mm; stamens 8; ovary glabrous, Style 3, stigma head-like. Small nuts three prism, length 3.5-4mm, brown, shiny, does not exceed the perianth. Flowers, fruit in summer and autumn.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in the alpine tundra of the lower bound on the grass.
Resource distribution: distributed in northeast China.

[Taste] Xin; and warm

【Indications】 digestion of stagnation; diarrhea. Main indigestion; diarrhea

Oral Dosage: Decoction,6-12g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/