Red Gate orchid

Red Gate orchid

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole plant of Orchidaceae.

[plant morphology] Magnolia mongolica

Perennial herbs, 15-40 cm high. Leaves alternate, oblong lanceolate; base sheathed. The inflorescence is terminal, compact, many flowered, becoming dense and thick inflorescence; the flower is light purplish red, the lip tip is 3-4-cleft or slightly cleft, such as wavy tooth shape, the distance from panicle or long saccate, shorter or nearly equal to ovary.

It is distributed in Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

Sweet and smooth.

Functions and indications: strengthening heart, tonifying kidney, generating body fluid, relieving thirst, strengthening spleen and stomach. Treatment of irritability and thirst, do not think diet, yin deficiency, irregular menstruation.

[selected prescription] to treat deficiency, tuberculosis, anemia, dizziness and dizziness: hongmenlan, panlongshen, Huangjing and Polygonum multiflorum are fried in water.