Limonium bicolor

Limonium bicolor (Handbook of Gansu Chinese herbal medicine)

[alias] Artemisia liaomei (Gansu Chinese herbal medicine manual), Limonium, broom grass, Spatholobus, xuejianchou (Northern common Chinese herbal medicine manual), alopecia (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine manual), fly flower (Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual), baihualaike (Henan Chinese herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of Limonium bicolor, a plant of plumbagiaceae.

[plant morphology] Limonium bicolor

Herbs perennial, up to 60 cm tall, all glabrous and smooth. Stems tufted, erect or oblique. Leaves many rooted; spatulate or long obovate, base narrowly winged, nearly entire. Stem erect, many branched, inflorescence inserted at the end of the branch on one side, or close to the head; calyx tube funnel-shaped, hairy on the edge, margin 5-lobed, folded, dry membranous, white or light yellow, persistent; flower box 5, spoon shaped to elliptic; stamen 5, inserted at the base of petals; ovary superior, 1-locular, style 5, separated, stigma capitate. Capsule 5-ribbed, enclosed in calyx. The flowering period is from July to October.

Most of them live in saline land. Distributed in Liaoning, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia and other places.

[collection] sprout in spring or harvest in autumn and winter.

[taste] sweet and bitter, flat.

① "Gansu Chinese herbal medicine manual": "light, slightly warm. "

② "Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

③ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it tastes astringent and bitter, and its nature is flat. "

Functions and indications: tonifying blood, stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis, regulating menstruation, benefiting spleen and strengthening stomach. Treatment of metrorrhagia, hematuria, irregular menstruation.

① "Gansu Chinese herbal medicine manual": "invigorating blood and Qi, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. After treatment, the body is weak, dyspepsia, irregular menstruation. "

② "The manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the north": "stop bleeding and disperse blood stasis. Treatment of uterine bleeding, cervical cancer and other bleeding. "

③ "Selected Chinese herbal medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai": hemostasis and blood circulation. Treatment of pyelonephritis, blood in urine. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.6-1 Liang.

[optional formula] for functional uterine bleeding, cervical cancer, pyelonephritis, and blood in urine: Wuqian to Erliang of bicolor buxuecao, decocted in water. (selected Chinese herbal medicines from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai)