White cinquefoil

[ source ] was contained in the" compendium of Materia Medica" xinhua.
[ ] B I Pinyin name 's M 's o W I L n golf to be C, I
English name [ ] Lanrgecalyx Cinquefoil
[ source ]
Medicine source: Rosaceae Potentilla conferta root.
Latin animal mineral name: Potentilla conferta Bge.
Harvest and storage: the summer excavation, washed, sliced dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Potentilla conferta perennial. Cylindrical, lignification. Stems pubescent and carry out white silky villous, hairs long and up to 3-4mm. Basal leaves are pinnately compound leaves, leaf 3-6, opposite or alternate; petiole pubescent and carry out white silky villous; stipules membranous, sparsely pilose outside, sometimes brown, glabrescent; leaves lanceolate or oblong, long 1-5cm, 0.5-2cm wide, apex obtuse or a tongue, base often expand leaves pinnate, margin of lobed or parted, but not to the Costa, lobes triangular, lanceolate or triangular ribbon oblong, margin slightly downward roll or sometimes not clear, green above, Fu Sheng pubescent or subglabrous, below is a gray-white tomentose along veins were carried out, white silky villous; cauline leaves and basal leaves similar, but less lobular logarithm, stipules herbaceous, often dentate divided or not, apex acuminate. Flowers bisexual; cymes, peduncle pubescent; flowers 1.2-1.5cm diameter; sepals 5, triangular ovate or elliptic, apex acute or acuminate, epicalyx segments 5, wrap around needle form or oblong lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute, slightly shorter than sepals or subequal, fruit increased significantly; petals 5, obovate, apex obtuse or retuse, slightly longer than sepals, yellow; style conical, base dilated. Achenes ovoid or hemispherical, diameter of about 1mm, rugose, thin is not obvious. Flowering 6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in farmland edge, grasslands on mountain slopes, valley, meadows and scrub.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, North China and Gansu, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.
[ ] bitter taste; acid; cool
[ ] liver kidney meridian;
[ function ] cooling blood to stop bleeding. The main metrorrhagia; epistaxis
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, or at the end of the inquiry 3-6g 10-15g.
[ ] the treatise" Xinhua outline of Materia Medica" root: bitter, sour, cool. Hemostatic, cooling function. For functional uterine bleeding.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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