Bo Xuecao

[ ] B o Xu Pinyin name 's C gave o
[ alias ] little incense, edelweiss, small, small grass of Pulsatilla chinensis
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the Compositae Bo Xue Edelweiss flower.
Latin animal mineral name: Leontopodium japonicum Miq.
Harvest and storage: harvest in autumn, washed, dried.
[ ] the original form of Bo Xue Edelweiss perennial, high 10-80cm. Rhizomes branched slightly longer, several fascicled flower stalk and sterile stems. Stems erect, base slightly woody, the upper part was Bo Rong white hairs, lower soon glabrate, internodes length 1-2cm, or upper internode length of 4cm. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or lower lobes obovate-lanceolate, length 2.5-5.5cm, width 0.5-1.3cm, base acute narrowly, no scabbard, apex acute, have long pointed, flat or slightly wavy edges reflexed, with sparse arachnoid tomentum or hair removal, below is silver white or grey thin dense fuzz. Bracts numerous, a distal part of stem Ye Chang short, ovoid or oblong, densely hairy on both sides are grey or above by arachnoid tomentum, arranged in evacuation and diameter of 4cm bud Ye Qun, or have long peduncle and developed into a diameter of 10cm complex bud Ye Qun. Capitate diameter 3.5-4.5mm, most, more evacuation; involucre campanulate or hemispherical, being white or gray hairs with dense, ca. 4mm; involucral bracts 3, apex obtuse, glabrous, with hairy; flowers shaped or dioecious; corolla ca. 3mm; male flowers: corolla narrowly funnelform, with lanceolate lobes; pistillate flowers: corolla thin tubular; crested white, basally slightly reddish; male crested slightly thick, serrate; female crested filamentous, lower serrate; sterile ovary hairy or glabrous. Achene often papillate or short shag. Flowering of 6-9 months, fr. 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 1000-3000m thickets on slopes, grassy slopes and under.
Resource distribution: located in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Henan, Sichuan etc..
[ ] a slightly sweet taste; flat;
[ function ] Runfei cough. Primary lung dryness cough
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/