Feixincao

Feixincao

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] meihuacao and Pleurotus albus.

[source] it is the whole plant of Saxifraga angustifolia.

[plant morphology] meihuacao

Perennial herbs, 10-45 cm high. Basal leaf thick papery, reniform or heart-shaped, 2.5-6 cm long; petiole 16 cm long; cauline leaf 1, round, base heart-shaped, amplexicaul, entire. Flowers white, solitary; sepals 5, ovate or broadly obovate, apex obtuse; petals 5, spatulate, obovate, oblanceolate, 2.5 cm long, entire, sometimes lower or base sparsely ciliary cleft; stamens 5, alternate with petals, connective brown, subulate, long protruding above anthers, pistil degenerated, stamens 3-parted above middle; ovary superior, carpels 3, syncytial Style slightly longer than ovary, stigma 3-lobed. Capsule elliptic. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.

It grows on hillside, roadside, forest edge, under forest or grass slope. Distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan and other places.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, washed and dried.

Sweet and cold.

Functions and indications: clearing heat, moistening lung, detumescence and relieving pain. Treatment of tuberculosis, mumps, lymphadenitis, laryngitis, leucorrhea, fever, sore swelling, traumatic injury.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: tamping.