Aidi tea

[Chinese name]:

[category]:

Japanese Ardisia herb

[alias]: flat wood, old not big, not out of the forest, ye dizhu.

[source]: the whole plant of Ardisia japonica (hornst.) B1.

[harvest]: in summer and autumn, when the stems and leaves are luxuriant, they are dug to remove sediment and dry.

[nature and taste]: it is mild in nature, pungent and slightly bitter in taste.

[plant morphology]: small evergreen shrub, 10-30cm high, usually creeping at the base, dark red, with slender adventitious roots. Stem often single, cylindrical, surface purple brown, short glandular hair. The leaves are alternate, usually 3-7 pieces, with terminal impeller shaped; elliptic or ovate, 3-7cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, apex short pointed, base cuneate, margin sharp serrated, glandular dots sparsely distributed on both sides, light red below, midvein hairy; petiole densely covered with short glandular hairs. Inflorescence subumbelliform, axillary or terminal; calyx 5-lobed, glandular punctate; corolla 5-lobed, white, with reddish brown glandular punctate; stamens 5-lobed, shorter than corolla lobes, glandular punctate on the back of anther. Drupe globose, red at maturity, with black glandular dots, persistent style and calyx. The flowering period is from June to September and the fruiting period is from August to December.

[growing place]: it grows under the forest, in the valley, and in the shady and wet place beside the stream. Produced in the south of the Yangtze River Basin provinces.

[chemical composition]: it contains ardisinol I, II, ardisin, dergenin, Embelin, rapanone, quercetin and volatile oil.

Function indications: resolving phlegm, relieving cough, diuresis, promoting blood circulation. It is used for cough, blood in sputum, chronic bronchitis, damp heat jaundice and falling injury.

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