Maliugen

Maliugen

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

[synonym] Xiao Hongliu (medicinal plant in desert area of China), Wulan bulegasu (Mongolian name).

[source] it is the root and fibrous root of Salix ussuriensis.

[plant morphology] Salix

Shrub, 1-2m high. Branchlets semipendulous, grayish brown, silky villous when young, slightly pubescent or glabrous when old; buds ovate, filiform, 2-5 mm long; leaves linear or narrowly linear lanceolate, 1-5 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, nearly entire, involute, or margin sparsely denticulate, silky pubescent on both sides at first, then nearly glabrous; petioles 3-5 mm long, glabrous or filiform pubescent . The catkin is 1-15 cm long, nearly without pedicel; the inflorescence axis is sparsely pilose; the bracts are elliptic or lanceolate, glabrous on both sides; there is a gland on the ventral side; the male flower has two stamens, and the filaments are all united; the female ovary is glabrous and sessile. Capsule, ca. 4 mm, glabrous. The flowering period is June. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows on the river bank, fixed sand dune and light salinized sandy land in desert area. Distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places.

[collection] collect as you use.

[taste] bitter, cool.

Functions and indications: clearing heat, purging fire and smoothing Qi. For wind fire, toothache and acute lumbar sprain.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: gargle in boiling water.

[selected formula] for acute lumbar sprain: a handful of fresh roots of Wuliu and an appropriate amount of cortex Rehmanniae. Take it in water.