Windmill vine

Windmill vine

(color atlas of common Chinese herbal medicines)

Another name: huangniuye and Honglong.

[source] it is the old stem of pterocephalaceae.

[plant morphology] windmill vine

Rattan woody, up to 30 m long, young branches and inflorescences pubescent. Stem cylindrical, with small yellowish white lenticels. Leaves leathery, opposite, elliptic oblong to ovate lanceolate, 7-15 cm long and 3-7.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, glossy above. Inflorescence: inflorescence 3-5-lobed, glandular margin 3-5-lobed, staminate; inflorescence 1-10-lobed, glandular margin 3-5-lobed; inflorescence 1-lobed, glandular margin 3-5-lobed; inflorescence 1-lobed. The fruit has 3 wings, the middle wing is longer, oblong or suborbicular. It blooms in early spring.

Wild or cultivated in forests, valleys and roadside shrubs. It is distributed from southwest to southeast of China.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and cut into sections for drying.

[flavor] warm.

[function indications] warming kidney and benefiting qi. It is used to treat asthenospermia, spermatorrhea, weakness and sweating.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-1.5 Liang.