Broad bean flower

Broad bean flower

(Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the flower of faba bean, a leguminous plant.

[collection] harvest, sun dry or dry before and after Qingming Festival.

[herbal medicine] the dried flower is dark brown, shrunken, about 2 cm long; the calyx is tightly attached to the corolla tube, and the apex has 5 lobes, each of which is incomplete due to drying and breaking; the flag petal of the flower is outside, and it is wrapped with wing petal and keel petal, which is not easy to distinguish due to shrinkage and curling. It is slightly fragrant and tasteless. The flower is dry, complete and purple black.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan and other places.

Sweet and smooth.

① Suzhou native medicinal materials: "Gan, Ping. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is flat in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

③ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "Gan Wei Xin, Ping. "

Function indications: cool blood and stop bleeding. Treatment of hemoptysis, epistaxis, dysentery, leucorrhea, hypertension.

① "Modern practical Chinese medicine": "treatment of hematemesis, hemoptysis. "

② "Herbal medicine produced in Suzhou": cooling blood and harmonizing stomach. "

③ "Anhui herbal medicine": treating epistaxis. "

④ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicine": "treat cough, stop leucorrhea. "

⑤ "Shanghai commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "hemostasis, tourniquet, hypotension. Treatment of various internal bleeding, leucorrhea, hypertension. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang); mash juice or steam dew.

[prescription selection] ① for hemoptysis: broad bean costs three yuan. Decoct with water to remove residue, dissolve rock sugar in proper amount, take two or three times a day. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of blood heat leakage: fresh silkworm bean flower one or two. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)