Daban mountain Sandwort

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Bǎ n Sh ān Zǎ o Zhu ì
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Shi Zhuke Daban mountain Sandwort entire grass plant.
Latin botanical name: Arenaria tapanshanensis Tsui animal fossil
Harvest and storage:6-7 month to collect all the dry grass.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herbaceous, tall 2-10cm. Stems clustered, lower pilose, glandular puberulent distally with black. Lower stem leaves scale-like, long 3-4mm, wide 1-1.5mm; upper stem leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate,0.5-1.5cm long,1.5-5mm wide, apex acute, margin nearly apex slightly hard pilose, base narrow, and significant. Cymes,1-3 flowers; pedicels 0.5-1.5cm, densely black glandular pilose; sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate,5-8mm long,2-3mm wide, apex acute, margin narrowly membranous,2wheels, the inner wheel only back central was black glandular pilose, while the wheel is back and edges are black glandular pilose; petals5, obovate, long 0.7-1cm, width of 4mm, apex retuse, base attenuate into claws, white; stamens 10, filaments flat, thin, long 5-6mm, anthers purplish black; ovary ellipsoid, stipitate, ca.2mm, containing 6-8( -13) ovules, style 2, long 2.5mm. Florescence 7-8 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 3800-4400m alpine meadow alpine belt or gravel.
Resource distribution: made in Qinghai, northern Huangnan and other places.
[ taste ] light; cold
[ ] functions of heat dampness; detoxification. The main rheumatic fever paralysis; ascites; urination; furuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-12g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/