All over the mountain

All over the mountain

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonyms] buyaklang, Xiebai (Guizhou folk medicine), manshanhong, Sanye Teng (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant or root of Melastomataceae.

[plant morphology] conifer

Shrub, 0.6-1.7 m high. Branchlets, inflorescences and dorsal veins of leaves were covered with brown stellate hairs at the beginning and then shed. Leaves opposite, ovate, long elliptic, 10-21 cm long, 4-13 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margin irregularly shallowly serrated, 5-7 main veins, numerous parallel veinlets between veins; long petiole, a pair of leaves below the upper inflorescence sessile. Panicle terminal; calyx, petals are purplish red; calyx tubular, stellate hair, apex with 4 teeth; petals 4, obovate, apex acuminate; stamens 8, 4 longer, anthers S-shaped, purple, 4 shorter, anthers straight, yellow; ovary inferior, 4-locular, style S-shaped. Capsule fusiform, loculicidal, 8-ribbed. Seeds numerous, falcate.

Born in the mountains and jungles. It is distributed in the southwest of China.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet and slightly astringent. "

[functions and indications] ① Guizhou folk medicine: "detoxify heat and poison". "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "cure scabies, poison sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. To treat dysentery: one or two roots or leaves of Rhododendron paniculatum. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of diarrhea: red all over the mountain, the whole grass one or two. Take it in boiling water.

③ Treatment of sores: Smash and apply the tender leaves of Rhododendron amurense to the affected area, and take one or two pieces of fried water. (Guizhou folk medicine was selected)