Break through?

Break through?

(Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] small horned thorn (list of medicinal plants in Guangxi).

[source] it is the leaf, thorn and seed of tussah.

[plant morphology] tussah with long leaves, also known as "chisel tree".

Bare shrubs or trees, up to 7 m in height. Branches weak, often spiny. Leaves leathery, oblong obovate or oblong lanceolate, 5-15 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin obtuse serrate, lateral veins 8-12 pairs, both sides slightly protruding. Raceme very short, 1-2 cm long, axillary, with many flowers, pale yellow, solitary or clustered; sepals 4 (～ 5), ovate or lanceolate, inner surface glabrous; without petals; male flowers with many stamens, disk composed of many glands, located at the periphery of stamens; female flower disk round disk, ovary 1-locular, with 2 membranous placentas, style short, stigma usually 2-lobed. Berries globose, brown when ripe. It blooms in spring.

Born in the wilderness, by the woods, by the way. It is distributed all over the south of the Yangtze River.

[collection] leaves and thorns can be harvested all year round; seeds and fruits can be harvested when they are ripe.

[nature and taste] Guangzhou Air Force's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "bitter in taste, cold in nature. "

[functions and indications] ① in the list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: "seed: treating amenorrhea, sore ringworm and scrofula; pricking: promoting lactation. "

② "Cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, detumescence and relieving pain" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou air force. Treatment of sprain and contusion, fracture and dislocation. "

[selected formula] for the treatment of sprain, contusion, fracture and dislocation after reduction: fresh broken leaves, smashed external application; or 30% liniment made of 35 degree alcohol, external application and wet compress. (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine)