Sarcandra rubra

Sarcandra rubra

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the root of the cotyledon pod of loniceraceae.

[plant morphology] egg leaf pod pregnancy, also known as rattan grass and sorghum flower.

Erect shrubs. Branchlets smooth, glabrous. The leaves are broad ovate to long elliptic ovate, 5-8.5 cm long and 4-6.3 cm wide, apex acuminate as caudate, base rounded, margin dentate serrate, with sparse stellate hairs on the veins. Cyme terminal, 4-8 cm in diameter, with 5-7 shoots; calyx 5-toothed; corolla 5-petal; stamen 5, shorter than corolla; ovary inferior, stellate pilose, style very short, 3-lobed. Drupe, red. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is July.

It grows in the forest edge of Zhongshan District. It is distributed in Sichuan, Hubei and Yunnan.

[nature and taste] Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is flat in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "regulating menstruation, astringent essence. Treatment of irregular menstruation, dream of empty slip, lung heat, halitosis and turbidity, leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.