Large bracts.

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Bā o Qí n
[ alias ] day coriander, double fork mountain grass, lotus leaf
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for the Umbelliferae plant horseshoe celery with a complete grass.
Latin botanical name: Dickinsia hydrocotyloides Franch. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest between, washed, dried or fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbaceous, tall 20-45cm. Rhizome short, fibrous roots slender. Stems no section, smooth. Basal leaves with petiole8-25cm long handle, long, glabrous, basal sheaths; leaf blade orbicular or reniform,2-5cm long,5-11cm wide, apex slightly concave, base deeply cordate, margin serrate teeth round, the top often Weiao, glabrous on both surfaces or in veins were short coarse Fu Mao; palmately veined7-11, in the middle of the above differences. Involucral bracts 2, leaflike, sessile, opposite; peduncle 3-6, born of leaflike bracts, unequal, usually the shorter sides; umbels, flower stalk was weak, when fruit is ripe stalk stout, base the Ministry has broad linear or lanceolate small involucral bracts; petals white or green, oval in shape; stamens 5, filaments shorter than petals; style short, outward retroflexion. Fruit dorsoventral flat pressure, nearly four prismatic, rear main ridge5, a winged edge extension. Fruit period4-10 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: located in the southwest and Hubei, Hunan and other places.
[ ] taste spicy; bitter cold;
[ ] Qufeng functions of clearing away heat and dampness itching. The main cold; headache; measles; epidemic typhus; significant eruption; skin pruritus
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g. External: amount, trace and apply; at the end of the inquiry and decoction; or wash.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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