Saussurea involucrata

Saussurea involucrata

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] Primula emeiensis is a plant of Primula family.

[plant morphology] Primula emeiensis

It is a perennial erect herb with short and stout underground stems and is covered by many scaly leaves in winter. The fibrous roots are thick. Leaves basal, oblanceolate to oblong or ovate, 5-10 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed and extended to petiole winged: leaf blade anterior 23 with very thin pointed serration, 13 near base for entire, upper green, lower light green and with sparse spots, midrib on both sides of the leaf are significant, lateral veins are not obvious; petiole 2-3 cm long. Scapes 18-26 cm high, apex powdered; flowers 5-12, often drooping into dense umbels; bracts oblanceolate, 10-15 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, often covered outside calyx; pedicels short: calyx campanulate, 1 cm long, lobes 5, rectangular or oblanceolate; corolla yellow, campanulate, about 2 cm long, corolla tube base cylindrical, above gradually expanded, apex 5-lobed, lobes obovate, entire or slightly concave and irregularly serrate: stamens 5, inserted at the base of corolla; ovary ovate, style 1-2 mm long. Capsule, calyx, etc., slightly shorter. The flowering period is from June to July.

It grows on the grass slope of mountain. It is distributed in Sichuan and other places.

In addition, the whole plant of Primula sonchifolia is also used as medicine. The leaves are oblong lanceolate, 20-27 cm in length and 3-7 cm in width, with irregular lobes on the margin and serrations of different sizes on the lobes, and 8-20 flowers in umbels.

[herbal medicine] it has many fibrous roots, grayish brown, and lotus like scaly leaves on the head of the root. The scaly leaves are oval or oval, green, brown and purplish on the outside, wrinkled vertically, yellow and hairless on the inside. The inner layer of the scaly leaves has normal leaves, and most of them are wrinkled and curled, grayish green to dark green.

Produced in Sichuan.

[nature and taste] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and non-toxic. "

[function and indications] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "remove dampness and heat, stop sweating. It is used to treat five kinds of diseases, such as dysmenorrhea, male leukorrhea and female leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan.