BUJING

BUJING

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[synonym] five finger chancre, five finger wind, mountain Bauhinia (Guangxi medicine plant directory), meihanren (Dai name).

[source] it is the root or trunk heartwood of Vitex negundo.

[plant morphology] Vitex trifolia

Trees, up to 10-20 m high. The heartwood is yellowish brown with strong odor. Palmate compound leaves opposite, petiole 5-10 cm long; leaflets 5, few 3, middle leaflet largest, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base cuneate, entire, glabrous, scattered white glandular dots above, yellow glandular dots below. Panicles axillary, 10-20 cm long, covered with gray hairs; bracts linear; calyx cup-shaped, truncate, pubescent, enlarged as a disk when bearing fruit; corolla yellow white. Drupe ovoid with persistent calyx at the bottom. The flowering period is late autumn and early winter.

Born in forest or cultivated. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, peeled and dried in the sun.

[flavor] light, flat.

Functions and indications: relieving cough and asthma, calming and reducing fever. Treatment of acute and chronic tracheitis, bronchitis, asthma, shortness of breath, fever and restlessness in children.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. (the following is a selection of Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine.)