Butterfly tree

Butterfly tree

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

Bitter sour soup.

[source] it is the root or stem of honeysuckle.

Butterfly pod pregnancy

Deciduous shrub, up to about 1 meter high. Yellow stellate pubescence was found in twigs, petioles and peduncles. Leaves opposite; leaves broadly ovate, ovate, 4-6 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, apex pointed, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin sharply serrate, pale yellow stellate hairs on the lower veins; petioles 1-2 cm long. Cyme at the top of branch, peduncle of county head; many florets, several sterile flowers; calyx 5-lobed, persistent; petals 5, white; stamens 5; ovary 1-locular. The stone fruit is oval, blue black at maturity, and the flowering period is from April to May. The fruit ripens from August to September.

Shengshanye roadside. It is distributed in East China, central China and southwest China.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] bitter, sour and pungent, slightly warm.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, strengthening spleen and eliminating accumulation.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of infantile malnutrition: kusuan decoction, stem and three coins. Simmer water clothes.

② Treatment of lymphadenitis: burn the roots and stems of bitter sour soup, collect bituminous coal on the fire with iron knife, and apply bituminous coal on the affected area.