Bean curd dregs

Bean curd dregs

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[source] it is the root and leaf of Raphanus sativus.

[plant morphology] radish tree

Small evergreen trees, smooth and glabrous. Skin thick, gray white, much branched. Leaves simple, alternate, long ovate, 10-15 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, entire or coarsely serrate, yellowish when dry. Flowers bisexual, arranged in axillary racemes, radially symmetric; perianth lobes 4, linear, dorsiflexed when open; stamens 4, anthers sessile, arising from the expanded part of perianth lobes; hypoglandular 4; ovary superior, sessile, 1-locular, style apical rodlike, ovules 2. Nuts round or oblate, not dehiscent; 2-seeded.

It grows in sparse forest on hillside. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong and other places.

[collection] all year round.

It is astringent and cool.

[function indications] convergence, detoxification. Treatment of enteritis, diarrhea, food poisoning, mushroom poisoning, pesticide "BHC" poisoning.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.