Ma niaohua

Ma niaohua

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

[synonym] shuixuanfu (Diannan materia medica), youzhuojiao, Pengcai (yecai Zan), Baiping (Diannan materia medica).

[source] it is the whole plant of hydrocharidae.

[plant morphology] water turtle (compendium)

Aquatic floating herbs with stolons and bearded roots. The leaves are thick, round or kidney shaped, about 2.5-6 cm long and 2.5-6.5 cm wide, with dark green on the top and reddish purple on the bottom, and floating tissue, so they can float on the water surface; the petioles are round and thick, about 1-8 cm long, and the flowers are unisexual, born in leaf pus; the male flowers are 2-3, gathered on the pedicel, with 2 leaflike spathes; the sepals are 3; the petals are 3, white; the stamens are 9, and the filaments are forked The female flowers are solitary in the spathe, perianth and male flowers are the same number, with 6 sterile stamens in pairs; ovary inferior, ovate, 6-locular, stigma 6, linear, apically 2-lobed. After anthesis, it bears round oval fleshy fruit with many seeds.

It is often found in ponds. It is distributed in Hebei, South to East China and Yunnan.

[flavor] slightly cold in nature and slightly salty in taste.

[function indications] it is used to treat women's leucorrhea.

[optional formula] to treat women's red and white belt: water whirl is used as powder, cooked water beef is used as food. (the nature and taste of this book is from the south of Yunnan materia medica)