Huanghuamu

Huanghuamu

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[source] it is the seed of leguminous plant flaviflora.

[plant morphology] huanghuamu

Shrub, 1-3 m high. Stem cylindrical, glabrous, skin green gray, branchlets pilose at nodes. Leaflets 3, oblong lanceolate or oblong, apex acuminate, base cuneate, 4-10 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, dark green above, glabrous below, green pale below, densely pubescent when young, later sparse; stipules connate, ca. 8 mm long; petiole 2-3.5 cm long. Raceme terminal, with 3-7 rounds of flowers, 2-7 flowers in each round; bracts whorled, ovate or suborbicular; calyx tubular, 1 cm long, densely seriform hairy, lobes lanceolate; corolla yellow; ovary strip, villous. The pods are linear, flat, 7-12 cm long and 1-1.4 cm wide, with narrow and mutated apex and fine spines of style. The flowering period is from April to June.

In grassland, forest or forest edge. Distributed in Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] the fruits are harvested when they are ripe, dried in the sun and seeded.

[flavor] sweet and light, slightly cold.

[functions and indications] it can clear the liver, clear the eyes, promote diuresis and moisten the intestines. Treatment of wind heat, headache, acute conjunctivitis, hypertension, chronic constipation.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.