Bean:

[ ] Dò u Pinyin name Liè Dā n
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Redanko plant beans broomrape total grass.
Latin plant animal name: Mannagettaea labiata H. Smith mineral
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of bean broomrape parasitic herbaceous, tall 10-11cm. The part on the ground only high 3-3.5cm. Stems stout, short. Leaves few, scaly, fresh lanceolate, ca. 1.5cm, wide 6-9mm. Flowers numerous, often 8-10 a dense clusters in the top of the stem, is head of Zhengzhou city; bracts ovate-lanceolate, long 1.8-2.2cm, wide 4-5mm. Apex acuminate, both surfaces subglabrous; bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate; calyx tubular, apex 5 crack; corolla two lip, dry yellow, erect, 5-6cm long, corolla lobes and margin densely long woolly; stamens 4, inserted on corolla tube base from 1-1.2cm, filaments slightly brawny, long 3-3.5cm below middle, densely long woolly, upward gradient glabrous, anther densely yellow-white long woolly; ovary ovoid, style long 4-4.5cm, stigma subglobose. Florescence 6-7 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: often parasitic on Caragana ( Caragana ) on plant roots.
Resource distribution: distribution in sichuan.
[ indications ] swelling detoxification; diarrhea. The main boils innominate toxic swelling; diarrhea;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-10g. External: amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from " Chinese Materia Medica " [ ]

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