Flower sour moss

Flower sour moss

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Yunnan Province)

[synonym] crabapple and crabapple.

[source] it is the whole plant of Begonia.

[plant morphology] Begonia variegata

Perennial succulent herbs, about 60-80 cm high. The rhizome is large and nodal. Stem with reddish brown villous, mixed with a few white hairs, nodes expanded. Leaves alternate, obliquely heart-shaped, apex acuminate, more or less lobed, lobes wide triangular, sharp, edge with small teeth and eyelashes, above green, with color ring lines, veins dark red. Cyme axillary, with 8-10 flowers, scarlet. 4 male perianth segments and 5 female perianth segments. Capsule has 3 wings, two wings short, one wing long. The flowering period is September.

Under the forest and at the edge of the green. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and Fujian.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, fresh or dried in the sun.

[flavor] sour and astringent, cool.

[function indications] it can eliminate inflammation and heat, detoxify and remove blood stasis. Treatment of water and fire burns, carbuncle, furuncle, bruise and pain.

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[selected formula] to treat Dieda Yuzhong: apply proper amount of huasuan moss and gounao Huaye to the affected part.