Big side Gong

Big side Gong

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] big side green (Emei medicinal plant), white hair grass (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Gesneriaceae.

[plant morphology] big side Gong

Herbs perennial, densely yellowish hirsute. Rhizome lignified with adventitious roots. Stem erect, 15-33 cm high. Leaf 1, erect, at the top of stem, almost sessile; leaf broadly ovate elliptic, 22 cm long, 12.5 cm wide, sometimes with 1-2 scaly leaflets, also attached to stem tip, about 2 cm long, nearly 2 cm wide, apex pointed; margin serrate, base heart-shaped or round. Flowers arranged in umbels or single at the top of the stem, pedicel about 2 cm long; calyx 5-lobed, lobes long elliptic, apex pointed, 12 mm long; corolla lower part combined into a tube, 4 cm long, apex 2-lipped, with 2 rows of hairs in the tube; stamens 4, after pollen dispersal, filaments curled, anthers pulled into the corolla tube.

It grows in the moist alkaline soil near the forest.

[collection] collect the whole grass in spring and summer. Fresh or sun dried.

[nature and taste] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet and salty, and it is non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] ① Emei medicine plant: "root: Resolving Phlegm and relieving cough. "

② "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "whole herb: treat heart weakness, red collapse, leucorrhea, urine leaching and night dream spermatorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.