Scrophularia fargesii

[ source ]" was first recorded in the compilation of Chinese herbal medicine".
[ ] Ch Pinyin name 's n to be G n Xu 's n Sh be n
English name [ ] root of Farges Figwort
[ alias ] e figwort
[ source ]
Medicine source: Scrophulariaceae figwort root long stem.
Latin animal mineral name: Scrophularia fargesii Franch.
Harvest and storage: Autumn digging, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Scrophularia fargesii herbaceous perennial high, up to 60cm. Roots fleshy thickening. Stems obscurely four prismatic, hollow, glabrous or white puberulent or glandular puberulent, base with scalelike leaves. Leaves opposite; petiole length 5cm, apex acuminate, base rounded to heart-shaped wedge, margin doubly serrate. Cymose inflorescence with flowers, 1-5 Duo; total stalk and pedicels are slender, long can reach more than 3cm; calyx ca. 5mm, lobes narrowly ovate to ovate, apex obtuse or slightly acute, narrowly membranous margin; corolla purplish red, long 1-1.2cm, corolla tube egg shape is spherical, labrum 2 crack, significantly longer than lower lip, edge overlapping each other, lower lip lobes are rounded, middle lobe is not protruding staminode; stamens, suborbicular; ovary ovoid, slightly longer than ovary. Capsule apex ovate, together with a short beak long 9-10min. Seeds numerous, long 0.6mm only. Florescence in August 6-7 month, fr..
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in open grassland or shrubland.
Resource distribution: distribution in Hubei, sichuan.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and toxic material. The main enteritis; diarrhea; sores
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 10-15g.
[ ] the treatise" Xinhua outline of Materia Medica": the roots, the function of detoxification.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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