Kalanchoe

Kalanchoe

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonym] qingbeitiankui and jizhaosanqi (Guangzhou army's "manual of common Chinese herbal medicine"), wuzhaosanqi and feichuanlian (Guangzhou Air Force's "manual of common Chinese herbal medicine").

[source] it is the whole plant of Crassulaceae.

[plant morphology] Kalanchoe

Perennial fleshy erect herb, 0.5-1 m high, green in whole plant, red in old branches, glabrous. The leaves are opposite, 8-18 cm long, smaller near the top, pinnate, lobes lanceolate, entire or with irregular obtuse teeth to lobes, terminal leaves are lanceolate. Cymes are terminal, inflorescence 10-30 cm long; flowers are erect, most; calyx is green, 4-lobed, lobes linear lanceolate, membranous; corolla is yellow or light orange red, 1.5-2 cm long, diameter about 2 cm, tall Stamens 8, 2-whorled, inserted at the throat of corolla tube, filaments short; lower scales 4, linear. It blooms almost all year round.

Most of them are cultivated. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and used fresh.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cold.

① "Sweet and astringent, cold" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou army. "

② "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine": "the taste is sweet and light, slightly bitter and pungent, and the nature is slightly cold. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. It is used to treat sore, abscess, traumatic injury, wound bleeding, scald and eczema.

① "Clearing away heat and toxin, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. For snakebite, sores, abscesses and injuries. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "cooling blood to stop bleeding. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, soup fire injury, eczema. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.