Wine cake leaf

Wine cake leaf

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonyms] shanjuye (Lingnan medicine collection record), houyahua (Chinese tree taxonomy), jizhaoxiao (Luchuan materia medica), baotazi, jizhaoxiang, jizhaolan (Nanning medicine records), Zhuzhu Jiubing ye, Zhuzhu (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II), jizhaoteng (Chinese economic flora), jizhaofeng (Guangxi Folk commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the leaf of the Annonaceae.

[plant morphology] pseudotalon

Rattan shrub. The branches are rough, with gray white and convex lenticels. Leaves alternate, thin leathery, oblong or oblong elliptic, 4-12 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, glabrous, apex obtuse or short pointed, base rounded, entire, upper bright, lower pink green. Flowers yellow white, born on the petiole of 2-4 cm long, opposite or nearly opposite to the leaves; sepals 3, ovoid, 3-5 mm long, outer pubescent; petals 6, 2-row, outer whorl larger than inner whorl, oblong, oblong lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 1-1.8 cm wide, apex obtuse, outer pubescent; stamens many, cuneate, locule linear, outward, filaments thick, fleshy. The fruit is beaded, 2-5cm long. Seeds globose, ca. 5 mm. The flowering period is June.

It is distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi.

The root (wine cake leaf root) and bark (chicken claw bark) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn, wash, dry or fresh.

[herbal medicine] the dry leaves are mostly broken, thin leathery, bright green or light brownish green on the top, light gray or grayish green on the bottom, oblong or oblong elliptic in shape, 4-12 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, bald and clean, with blunt or short pointed apex, rounded base, entire margin and short stalk. It is light in taste and weak in breath.

It is produced in Guangxi and Guangdong.

Bitter, pungent and warm.

① "Lingnan caiyao Lu": "it tastes bitter and astringent, and has little poison. "

② Lu Chuan's materia medica: "Xin, Wen. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, removing dampness, relieving pain and killing insects. Treatment of rheumatism, bone pain, malaria, edema, traumatic injury, rubella, scabies, rotten feet.

① According to Lingnan medicine collection record, "the feet are scalded with boiling water, and the toes are wet and rotten with tamping.". Remove wind evil, remove blood stasis and generate new. "

② "Lu Chuan materia medica:" pain, malaria, kill scabies. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism, bone pain, cold malaria, sweat spots, scabies. "

③ Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "removing dampness, dispelling wind and promoting qi. Take it orally to relieve edema and cough; use it externally to relieve rubella and itch. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang; or soaking in wine. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of bone pain and skin swelling caused by falling: mash the wine cake leaves, stir fry them in an iron pan until they are scorched, then add the good wine to boil, take the wine to drink, and apply the residue to the wound. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

② Treatment of gastrointestinal flatulence, dyspepsia, nephritis, edema, bronchitis: dry wine cake leaf five money to one or two. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)