Chestnut

Chestnut

(Shaanxi herbal medicine)

Wild head.

[source] it is the fruit of Rosa tenuifolia.

[plant morphology] Rosa tenuifolia

Deciduous shrub, 2-3m high. Stem erect, reddish brown, many branched, with sharp spines. Leaves alternate, odd pinnate; leaflets 9-11, ovate, apex obtuse or rounded, margin simple or double serrate, base broadly cuneate, sessile: flowers solitary or clustered, light red; petals 5; stamens numerous; carpels numerous. The fruit is spherical, spiny and crimson. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from August to September.

Growing on hillsides, roadsides or in woods and grass. It is distributed in Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] from August to September, the fruits are harvested after ripening, the fruit stalks are removed and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] sweet acid, slightly astringent, flat.

[function indications] astringent, detumescence. Treatment of dysentery and hemorrhoids.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.