Dragon bone lotus

Dragon bone lotus

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] shuilonggu, Zimu lotus and wild lotus.

[source] it is the rhizome of water lily.

[plant morphology] Longgu lotus

Perennial aquatic herbs. Rhizome recumbent, white, with spiral arrangement of black leaf trace. Leaves floating, ovate to broadly ovate, about 8 cm long, 6-8 cm wide, apex rounded, entire, base deeply cordate, thick, smooth on both sides, glabrous, densely dotted below; petiole slender, flat and hollow. Flowers solitary at the top of pedicel; sepals 5, coronoid, yellow, broadly ovate, ca. 2 cm long, persistent; petals numerous, rectangular, apex depressed, ca. 6 mm long; stamens numerous; ovary superior, ovate, style very short, stigma 12 notched. Berry. The seeds are numerous.

Born in ponds.

[collection] all year round.

It is cool in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste.

[function indications] it has the function of nourishing and clearing away heat in the treatment of tuberculosis.

[prescription] to treat Yin deficiency and weak tuberculosis: two pairs of fresh dragon bone lotus root (removing beard), stewed meat, once in the morning and once in the evening