Kadsura

Kadsura

(list of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang)

[synonym] xiaoyefengsheng (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources list), xiaomulian (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora).

[source] it is the root and stem of banyan climbing vine.

[plant morphology] banyan climbing vine, also known as Ficus pumila.

Evergreen climbing shrub, 2-10M long. The branches are brown with brown lenticels, the young branches and buds are brown hairy, sometimes rooting on nodes. Leaves alternate, leathery, elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 5-9 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, base rounded or cuneate, apex acuminate, vein network raised below, forming a honeycomb; petiole 4-7 mm long, densely covered with brown hairs, peduncle single or paired, solitary in leaf axils or gathered on old branches, spherical. Male flowers and gall flowers in the same inflorescence receptacle, female flowers in another inflorescence receptacle; male flowers in the mouth of inflorescence receptacle, perianth segments 3-4, stamen 2, gall flowers with 5 perianth segments. The flowering period is April. The fruiting period is July.

They often climb on the tree trunks in the mountains, on the rocks by the stream or on the walls of houses. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, etc.

[functions and indications] Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resource list: "treating rheumatism. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 2-3 Liang.

[selected formula] for chronic joint gout: two to three pairs of banyan root or rattan climbing vine, zuandifeng root and moso bamboo root, one to two pairs of Achyranthes bidentata and Salvia miltiorrhiza. Fry in water, make yellow rice wine, take it before breakfast and dinner. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)