Caulis sarmentosus

Caulis sarmentosus

(Honghe Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Sargassum japonicum, Salix mandshurica and Cornus officinalis.

[source] it is the whole plant of Cornaceae.

[plant morphology] Cornus microphylla

Deciduous shrubs. Stem erect, about 3 meters high, young branches quadrangular, reddish brown, densely covered with fine hairs. Leaf blade elliptic lanceolate or elliptic ovate, 4-7 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, entire, lateral veins 2-4 pairs, ascending to apex, both sides covered with hairs, petiole 5-8 mm long. Cymes corymbose, terminal, pubescent; florets white; calyx teeth lanceolate triangular; petals 4, lanceolate; stamens 4; ovary subglobose, densely covered with grayish white closely pubescent. Drupe ovate, black.

Born in the hillside, stream, forest shade. Distribution in Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei to southwest, South China and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested, washed, dried or fresh all year round.

It's bitter and astringent.

[function indications] it can disperse blood stasis, relieve pain, stop bleeding and connect bone.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Stewed eggs or soaked in wine. External use: tamping, grinding, sprinkling or frying.

[prescription selection] ① for diarrhea: wear five coins of fish vine, grind the powder, stew the eggs.

② Treatment of low back pain, rheumatism and numbness: wear one or two dried roots of Yuteng, five coins of black bone, five taels of wine, take 10 ml each time, twice a day.

③ Treatment of fracture: fresh through Yuteng, big Jiegudan leaf appropriate amount, tamping.

④ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: wear the leaves of Derris, research the "external" at the end.

⑤ Treatment of yellow water sores: wear Yuteng leaves, research and sprinkle; or use fresh wear Yuteng, fried water wash.