Japanese Premna

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[ alias ] spot magpie child
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Medicine source: as the family Verbenaceae stink of Vitex negundo seed.
Latin animal mineral name: Premna ligustroides Hemsl.
Harvest and storage of autumn harvest: when fruit is ripe, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original form of Japanese Premna, shrubs, plants with high1-3m. Much branched, slender, pubescent when young, glabrous when old. Leaves opposite; a short stalked or subsessile; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, long 1.5-8cm,1-3cm wide, base cuneate, entire or with a central3-5obtuse teeth, apex acute to caudate-acuminate, both surfaces sparsely pilose, abaxially purple red glandular dots. Cymes terminal, a paniclelike, pilose, length 3.5-6cm, width 2-3cm; calyx cupular, ca.2mm,5lobed, lobes ca.1mm, circular or triangular; corolla yellow, long 3-5mm, both surfaces and yellow glandular hairs, apex4 crack, slightly two lips, the upper lip 1lobes broadly, apex truncate or retuse, lower lip 3lobes slightly unequal; stamens 4,2long; ovary glabrous, upper with yellow glands. Drupe obovoid, length 2.5-5mm, width 2.5-4mm. Flower, fruit5-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in the elevation of 500-1000m hill forest and forest edge.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou.
[ ] taste spicy; bitter cold;
[ ] Qufeng pain, itching functions. The main wind-heat headache; rubella canopy itch
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,10-15g. External: moderate, boiling water wash.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/