Leaves of Salvia miltiorrhiza

[ ] Ch Pinyin name 's n to be Y n n Sh keyword D.
[ alias ] counterpart of Hypericum
[ source ]
Source: for medicinal Labiatae tongue flap sage herb.
Latin animal mineral name: Salvia liguliloba Sun
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, dried.
[ ] the original morphology tongue flap sage, erect annual herb, high 30-70cm. Roots fibrous, intensive. Stems obtusely four prism, prism slightly by small sparsely pilose. Ye Youji leaves and stem leaves, basal leaves with long handle, handle long 2-3cm; cauline leaves ca. 3 pairs, a lower portion of the long stipitate, up to 3cm, to become shorter, most on a pair of short petiolate or sessile; leaves lanceolate, long 2-7cm, 1-2.8cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded, above green with purple, purple below, above all scattered strigose, below only along veins pubescent Yu glabrous, margin shallowly crenate. Verticillaster 2-12 flower, in the stem tip secund racemes, panicles long 10-25cm; calyx bell-shaped, outside pilose, two upper triangular, lower lip, shut split into 2 teeth, teeth triangular; corolla pale red, outside puberulous, limb a lip, upper lip straight, oblong, lower lip contour triangle, 3 crack, middle lobe smaller, ligulate; fertile stamens 2, filaments glabrous; staminodes sticks shaped; style apex 2 lobed. Nutlets oblong, length 2mm, diameter 0.8mm, brown. Florescence in June.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation approximately 800m hillside forest road.
Resource distribution: located in Anhui, Zhejiang.
[ ] taste spicy; sexual tepid
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ function ] Huoxue tongluo. The abnormal menstruation; joint pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 18-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/