Frozen green leaves

Frozen green leaves

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[source] it is the leaf of Zhennan yunnanensis.

[plant morphology] Machilus yunnanensis

Tree, 20 m high; crown globose, fragrant; bark grayish brown. Branchlets grayish green, smooth, glabrous. Leaves alternate, leathery, obovate, 7-9 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, base broadly cuneate, dark green above, greenish pale below, glabrous on both sides, entire, with pinnate veins, 8-9 pairs of lateral veins, protruding below; petiole 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous. Cone inflorescence axils in involucre axils; involucre early fall; yellow flowers; perianth 6, rectangular round, with villous inner surface, into 2 rings, outer ring smaller; fertile stamen 9, anther 4-locular, the third round stamen anther outward lobed. Fruit elliptic, 1 cm long, 5 mm in diameter, black at maturity, with slightly expanded persistent perianth segments at base. The flowering period is late autumn and early winter.

Born in the wet mountain. It is distributed in Yunnan.

[collection] winter and spring.

[flavor] bitter and astringent, cool.

[function indications] clearing away heat and inflammation. Treatment of parotitis, sore poison, water and fire burns, rheumatism, traumatic fracture.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan, or grinding powder. External use: grind and apply.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of mumps, sore poison: freeze green leaves and cypress branches and leaves, grind them, mix chicken egg white and apply them externally.

② Treatment of water and fire burns: a frozen green leaves grind powder, water transfer application. Grind two frozen green leaves, peel and mash with thistle, boil water, mix with frozen green leaf powder and apply externally. Grind the three frozen green leaves, mash the Lithospermum bark, remove the dregs after boiling, and apply the frozen green leaf powder externally.

③ Treatment of rheumatism, traumatic fracture: a frozen green leaves, a small red ginseng, snow on a Artemisia 1 to 2%, a total of research at the end, to wine delivery service. Two frozen green leaves, green grapes, cohosh, and blood Dan, and then apply it with boiling water, honey or baijiu. If it is very cold, add Aconitum kusnezoffii, and if it is very hot, add banzhuanggen.