Desmodium oxyphyllum

Desmodium oxyphyllum

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] Cynanchum komarovii.

[source] it is the root and leaf of Desmodium rotundifolia.

[plant morphology] Desmodium rotundifolia

Small shrub, about 1 m high. The stem is angular, sparsely covered with pubescence. The leaves are alternate, with 3 leaflets. The leaves on both sides are smaller. The apex is round rhombic, 4-7 cm long and 3.5-6 cm wide. The apex is acute or obtuse, the base is broad cuneate, the whole margin is covered with scattered pubescence on both sides. The stipules are linear lanceolate. Inflorescence terminal panicle, 30 cm long, axillary racemose; flowers purplish red; calyx small, campanulate, lobed; pistil linear, glabrous. Pods usually with 2 nodes, dorsally curved, covered with hooked trichomes, nodes dehiscent to ventral sutures. The flowering period is from July to September.

It grows under mountain forest or in grass slope. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Yunnan, etc.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

Bitter and warm.

Functions and indications: disperse cold and stop bleeding.

[prescription selection] 1. For common cold: the root of small sticky seed, the root of shansuma and the root of huzhangcao (anemone rosea on the Bank of the river) are three dollars each. Take it in boiling water.

② Cure cough: small sticky son grass root five money. Simmer water clothes.

③ Treatment of knife injury: ramming the leaves of mucilaginous vetiver. Apply to the affected area.