Big bad Huang Jing

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Chò u Huá n Jī n
[ alias ] Culver leaf, stinky Huang Jing
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the family Verbenaceae subcapitate Premna leaf and root.
Latin botanical name: Premna subcapitata Rehd. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: spring, summer leaf picking fresh or dried. After digging, fresh or dried slices.
[ ] the original morphology subcapitate Premna, Bush, tall 1-2m. Branches with conspicuous lenticels, shoots yellow-white spreading villous. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.4-1cm, spreading villous. Leaf blade ovate to ovate-oblong,2.5-8.5cm long,1.5-4.8m wide edge, except at apex and base, many serrate, apex acuminate or acute, base truncate or rounded, dark yellow green surface, have fluff and yellow glandular dots, abaxially felted hairs and glands. Cymes in branchlets top tightening into capitate, long 0.6-2.5cm, wide 1-3.5cm; peduncle cylindrical, long 0.5-2cm; bracts small, linear or narrowly lanceolate,0.5-1cm long; calyx cupular; corolla yellowish green or white,4split two2-lipped, upper lip entire, lower lip3 crack, throat densely: circle villous; stamens 4, slightly extended corollaceous outside. Drupe dark black, ovate, long 3-4mm, wide 2-3mm. Flower, month of fruit period 5-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 2600m hill forest.
Resource distribution: distribution in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. The main dysentery; boils; Luo Li; dysmenorrhea; hernia; trauma hemorrhage
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,5-10g; or leach liquor. External: amount; trace and apply; or at the end of the inquiry tune apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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