Corydalis bark

Corydalis bark

(notes on materia medica)

[source] the phloem of the bark of Fagaceae.

[plant morphology] Korla, also known as Mu Nu tree (Linhai foreign body records), Stone Oak, green tin, Castanopsis fargesii, thick tree.

Evergreen trees. Bark bluish gray, smooth: twigs covered with yellowish brown pubescence, then gradually smooth. Leaves alternate, leathery, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, 7-12 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, apex short caudate, obtuse, base cuneate, entire, dark green above, bright, gray white below, densely scaly, midrib sunken above, appearing below, lateral veins 8 pairs, inconspicuous above, disappearing near margin; petiole 1-1.5 cm long. Flowers monoecious; inflorescence terminal, covered with very dense woolly hair, male inflorescence spicate, 5-10 cm long. The female inflorescence is 10-13 cm in length, the rachis is stout, 3-5 flowers gather and the style is 3. The cupule is nearly sessile, flat bottomed, plate-shaped, 5-6 mm high, 10 mm in diameter, covered with tile like scales, which are small, triangular, gray white, connected into a ring, and more dense at the edge of the cupule. Nuts exserted, ovate. The surface is dark and glossy. The flowering period is from August to October. The fruit is in October of the next year.

It grows in the hillside jungle. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[nature and taste] notes on materia medica: "it is pungent, mild and poisonous. "

[function]: "herbal medicine collection": "the main ascites disease, take white skin for frying, for the pill, such as Wutong big, Ping Dan (served) three pills, instant pill. "