Baiyao

Baiyao

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] xiaobaiyao, Wuteng, dadoujiesheng, dabaijiaoniu.

[source] it is the whole plant of macrobaiyao in Asclepiadaceae.

[plant morphology] Baiyao

Climbing vines, more than 10 meters high. Stem cylindrical, gray brown, with obvious corky lenticels, young branches green, glabrous, slightly expanded on nodes. Single leaf opposite; papery; ovoid to oblong ovoid, 8-13 cm long, 5.5-8.5 cm wide, apex acute, base rounded, upper green, lower yellow green, entire, 4-5 pairs of lateral veins; petiole 1-4 cm long. Cymes axillary, flowers small. Follicles thick, fleshy. The seed has a corolla. It blooms in summer.

Born in alpine valleys and hillsides.

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

It is bitter and astringent, cool and poisonous.

[function indications] hemostasis and bone grafting. Treatment of trauma, bleeding, fracture, sore poison.

Usage: apply to the affected area.

It is forbidden to use it with herbal cream.