Pomegranate

Pomegranate

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] pomegranate (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan).

[source] it is the fruit and root of Rosa Emei.

[plant morphology] Rosa rugosa

Deciduous shrub, 3-4m high. The stem is erect, with flat broad skin spines; the young branches are densely clustered, with spiny hairs. Leaflets 9-17, oblong to oblong elliptic, 8-25 mm long, apex rounded or apical, base suborbicular, margin with sharp teeth, lower midrib with very fine hairs; stipules oblanceolate, at the base of petiole. The flowers are white, solitary, 3-4 cm in diameter; sepals are 4, lanceolate; petals are 4, obovate; stamens and pistils are numerous, enclosed in a pot like receptacle, styles protruding out of the receptacle, united into a head. The fruit is pear shaped, bright red, with persistent calyx at the top and yellow fleshy peduncle. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

Born in Alpine coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest or shrub, like loose and fertile soil. Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Henan and other places.

[collection] fruit: harvested in autumn; root: harvested all year round. Dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] 1. Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and astringent, flat. "

② "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "sour, astringent, flat. "

[function indications] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "stop bleeding, stop dysentery. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, red white dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or grinding powder.

Avoid iron.

[selected formula] 1. To treat women's blood avalanche: pomegranate and Sanguisorba officinalis. A total of fine powder, with scorpion seven decoction.

② Treatment of red and white dysentery: Pomegranate three money. Stir fried rice flour, 3 cents per serving under 5 years old, 1 yuan per serving for adults, 3 times a day, with brown and white sugar as the guide and boiled water as the guide. (the following should not be published)