Salvia miltiorrhiza

Chinese Name: Salvia miltiorrhiza

Class: root

Bowley sage root

[alias]: red ginseng, red root, galloping horse grass, qilima.

[source]: it is the root of Salvia bwleyana Dunn, a Labiatae plant.

[collection and preparation]: the same as Salvia miltiorrhiza.

[character and taste]: the rhizome is short and thick with residual stem base. The roots are cylindrical, often slightly curly, grayish brown or grayish red, 2-8mm in diameter. It is hard, easy to break, uneven and horny. The rest is the same as Salvia miltiorrhiza.

[plant morphology]: similar to Salvia miltiorrhiza, the difference is that the root is smaller and the skin is gray red. Leaflets 5-7 (9), ovate lanceolate, apex acuminate or caudate acuminate, glabrous on both sides except veins. Calyx tubular or subtubular; corolla short, bluish purple, containing or slightly protruding calyx, upper lip about 1.2cm long.

[growing place]: on hillside, forest edge, water edge, etc. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi.

[chemical constituents]: tanshinone I, tanshinone II, dihydrotanshinone I, methylene tanshinone, methyl tanshinate, cryptotanshinone, proto acid, protocatechuic aldehyde, etc.

[function indications]: the same as Salvia miltiorrhiza.