Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa

(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

[synonym] Cha Ru (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the fruit of saxifrage.

[plant morphology] big thorn tea cane

Deciduous shrub, 1-3 m high. There are 3 needles on the branch, the length of which is 2 cm, trigeminal and thick; the internodes are densely covered with or without bristles. The leaves are nearly round or round, 2-2.5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide. The leaves are 3-lobed, the base is truncated or slightly cordate, the lobes are blunt at the top, sparsely pubescent on both sides, and the hairs in the axils of veins are dense or almost hairless; the petioles are 1-3 cm long, white sparsely pubescent or short hairy, often mixed with capitate glandular hairs. The flowers have 1-2 single branches, green or reddish; the sepals are oblong with glandular hairs on the outside of sepals and calyx angles; the petals are white, oval, half of the calyx; the stamens extend out of the petals, with cup-shaped glands at the apex; the ovary has glandular hairs, and the style is longer than the stamens. Berry glabrous or with sparse glandular bristles, fruit subglobose or elliptic, 1. 6 cm long, purple. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.

It grows under the forest and in the shrubbery. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.

[collection] from August to September, the ripe fruits were collected and preserved with white sugar.

Sour and smooth.

[Guijing] into the liver meridian.

[function indications] for atrophic gastritis and bile deficiency.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; or for tea.