Lingxiao flower - Lingxiao

Chinese Name: Lingxiao flower

[category]: Flowers

Chinese trumptcreeper flower

[alias]: bigwig flower, centipede flower on tree, inverted golden bell.

[source]: it is the flower of Campsis grandiflora (Thunb.) Loisel.

[picking]: picking flowers in summer and autumn, drying in the sun or at low temperature.

[nature and taste]: most of them are wrinkled and curly, and the complete ones are about 5cm long. The calyx tube is about 2 cm long, dark brown, the apex of calyx teeth is not equal to 5-lobed, and there are 5 distinct longitudinal ridges from the base of calyx tube to the tip of calyx teeth. Corolla yellow brown, apex 5-lobed, lobes semicircular, lower joint funnel-shaped, with brown red veinlets on the surface. Stamens 4, inserted on corolla, dichotomous, anthers zigzag, style 1. The gas is slightly fragrant, the taste is slightly bitter and slightly sour. Cold in nature, sweet and sour in taste.

[plant morphology]: deciduous woody vines. Leaflets 7-9, ovate to ovate, lanceolate, 3-7 cm long and 15-3 cm wide, apex long and pointed, base asymmetric, glabrous on both sides, margin sparsely 7-8 serrate, yellowish pilose between two leaflets. The flowers are orange red, with three cymes forming a sparse terminal panicle; the calyx is bell shaped, thin, green, with 10 longitudinal veins, 5-lobed to the middle, and the calyx teeth are lanceolate; the Corolla is funnel-shaped, about 7 cm in diameter. The capsule is as long as a pod, with a blunt tip. The seeds are numerous. The flowering period is June to August and the fruiting period is November.

[growing place]: on hillside. Distributed in the Yellow River and Yangtze River Valley, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, cultivated in various places.

[chemical constituents]: apigenin, β - sitosterol, etc.

Function indications: removing blood stasis, cooling blood and dispelling wind. It is used for amenorrhea, postpartum breast swelling, rubella redness, skin itching and acne.