He Xue Dan

He Xue Dan

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonym] Hu Zhizi (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), big leaf Wuzhi and big leaf maliaozhi (Tianmu Zhi Zhi of Zhejiang Province).

[source] it is the root or whole grass of Lespedeza macrophylla.

Lespedeza macrophylla

Deciduous shrub, 1-3 m high. Stem branches ribbed and winged, densely white tomentose. It has 3 compound leaves, 2-8 cm long petiole, 4.5-7 cm long and 3-5 cm wide leaflets, smaller lateral leaflets, rounded or slightly absent apex, rounded base, entire margin, both sides and petiole densely covered with silky hairs at the beginning, and then gradually falling off. Inflorescence lanceolate; stamens oblong, 2 cm long, bracteate; stamens lanceolate, ca. 1-5 cm long; stamens lanceolate, bracteate; stamens oblong. Pods obovate elliptic, about 1 cm long, flowering from July to September. The fruit period is from October to November.

It grows on the dry hillside and in the grass of forest edge. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

[function indications] textual research on the names and facts of plants: "breaking blood. "

[optional prescription] to treat stuffy Sha (dizziness, heavy headache, no sweat, numbness in upper body): one or two leaves or roots of hexuedan, five to six coins of Muye, four to five coins of Maogen, one or two, boiled and peeled ginger. Fried with brown sugar, take it in the morning and before dinner. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)