Kunming chicken foot Coptis

Kunming chicken foot Coptis

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma jijiaoci, Rhizoma sankezhen (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), Rhizoma jijiaohuanglian (Kunming folk herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Berberidaceae.

[plant morphology] Berberis KUNMINGENSIS

Evergreen shrub, about 2 m high. The root is stout, with curved branches and grayish yellow surface. Branchlets cylindrical, grayish brown, slightly angular; spines usually on 3 nodes, 6-21 mm long. Leaves 3-5 clustered, hard leathery, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong ovate, 4-10 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, margin slightly retrovolved, spiny serrate, almost sessile. There are 20 florets clustered in leaf axils, bright yellow; petals 6, ovoid. Berry ovate oblong, stigma flat, persistent. It blooms in spring.

It grows in the shrub on the hillside.

Berberis officinalis, also known as Berberis macrophylla. Branchlets smooth, glabrous. The leaves are thin and leathery, elliptic to broad elliptic, with spiny teeth, white frost below, yellow flowers, 10-25 clusters in leaf axils. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places. Its root is also used as medicine.

[collection] all year round.

"Bitter" is commonly used in Kunming. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. Treatment of enteritis, dysentery, gonorrhea, sore throat, burns, carbuncle.

① "Clearing fire and detoxifying herbs" is commonly used in Kunming. It is used for the treatment of urine red drenching pain, gingival swelling pain, throat swelling pain, eye red pain and mumps. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat, detoxifying and detumescence. Prevention and treatment of dysentery, enteritis; treatment of burns, carbuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or grinding.

[selected formula] for carbuncle, sore, swelling and pain: external application of Rhizoma Coptidis of chicken feet, or external application of grinding powder and adjusting water. (common folk herbs in Kunming)