Red boy

Red boy

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] Shilian, hongtiankui, Huban Haitang, banbianlian, jiutoothlian, Honglian (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), Yanhong (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection).

[source] it is the whole plant of Begoniaceae.

[plant morphology] Begonia fissa

Herbs perennial, 1.5-60 cm high. The rhizome is thick and long. The aerial stems are herbaceous, erect or creeping, somewhat Brown woolly. Leaf membranous, alternate, broad heart ovate, 12-20 cm long, 10-15 cm wide, polygonal or irregular 5-7-lobed, lobes acuminate, margin with small serrations and eyelashes, above green, slightly pilose, below light green or light purple, brown woolly; stipules lanceolate, 2 cm long, falling off. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, axillary, with shorter rachis and leaves, bearing 3-4 male flowers and 1 female flower, with light red flowers; the male perianth segments are 4, with 2 larger ones on the outside and 2 oblong ones on the inside, with many stamens; the female perianth segments are 5, obliquely ovate, with lower ovary, pilose; the stigma is hypertrophic. Capsule 10-15 mm long, narrowly winged. The flowering period is from June to August.

It is distributed in the south of China. It is also cultivated.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, washed and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "sweet, cold. "

[functions and indications] it is used to treat cold, cough, rheumatism, bone pain, low back pain, dyspepsia, swelling and pain of bruises and sores.

① "Treatment of low back pain" in "textual research on the names and facts of plants". "

② Lu Chuan's materia medica: "Ye: anti inflammation and detoxification. It is used to treat sores, carbuncle swelling, urine dripping and snake bite. "

③ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "whole strain: treatment of rheumatism, bone pain, stomachache, dyspepsia. Gen: for hematemesis. "

④ "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": clearing away heat and toxin, moistening lung and relieving cough, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. Treat cold, acute bronchitis, pneumonia. "

[usage and dosage] oral: boil soup, 2-3 yuan. External use: tamping.

[selection] treatment of traumatic swelling and pain: fresh Begonia crabapple, mashed and outsourced. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)