Koelreuteria Paniculata

Koelreuteria Paniculata

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonyms] Sorbus bungeana, pohuashu (Chinese tree taxonomy), nepenthus bungeana, maanshu (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root, root bark or flower of Koelreuteria paniculata.

Morphology of Koelreuteria Paniculata

Deciduous trees, up to 20 meters high. Bark dark gray; branchlets gray, pubescent and lenticel dense. 2-pinnate compound leaves, opposite, thick papery, total rachis cylindric, densely silky gray pubescent; leaflets 9-15, long elliptic ovate, 4.5-7 cm long, 1.8-2.5 cm wide, apex short acuminate, base rounded, margin irregularly serrated, gray tomentose on main vein below; petioles short, 2-3 mm long. Panicle terminal, ca. 20 cm long; flowers yellow. Capsule ovate, ca. 4 cm long, 3 cm wide, apex rounded, pointed, 3-valved. Seeds round, black.

It grows in mountainous area and sparse forest. Distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

It is slightly bitter and pungent.

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, clearing heat, relieving cough and killing insects.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of wind heat and cough: compound the roots of Koelreuteria pinnatifida or spend five money, simmer water, three times a day.

② Drive Ascaris lumbricoides: compound leaf Koelreuteria root bark three money. Simmer water clothes, twice a day.