Windmill

Windmill

(experimental study of traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the fruit of Dioscorea nipponica.

[plant morphology] Dioscorea nipponica

Perennial twining herbs. The underground rhizome is cylindrical, fleshy and sticky. Stem slender, less branched. Single leaf opposite, long petiole, leaf blade long ovate, apex pointed, base heart-shaped, with two ears, 5-10 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, green, glabrous; leaf axils with bulbils (zero surplus seeds). The flowers are unisexual, dioecious; 3-5 spikes, axillary; the flowers are white, the male spikes are erect, the female spikes are drooping; the male perianth is 6 pieces, the stamen is 6 pieces, there are ovary traces; the female perianth is 6 pieces, the ovary is 3 rooms, the lower position, there are false stamens. The fruit is round and flat with 3 wings, 2 cm wide and 1.2-1.4 cm long. Seeds oblate, broadly rounded, with membranous wings. It blooms in summer.

It grows in the mountains and forests. It is distributed all over the south of the Yangtze River.

[collection] harvest from August to October.

[function indications] Experimental Study of traditional Chinese medicine: "tinnitus treatment. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-7 yuan.