Lantana camara

Lantana camara

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonyms] miconghua, camellia, Rhododendron, maliguang (Yunnan herbal medicine selection), YINGSHANHONG (Guizhou medicinal plant list), cangshanrhododendron (Guangxi plant list).

[source] it is the flower of Rhododendron camara.

[plant morphology] Rhododendron camara

Evergreen trees, 3-8m high. The bark is brown, irregularly flaky, with alternate leaves; long elliptic lanceolate, 10-15 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, apex short pointed, base cuneate, margin entire and microwavy, dark green above, light brown below, densely covered with yellowish brown tomentose. Most of the flowers are clustered at the top of the branch, forming a raceme of umbels; the flowers are large and beautiful, purple red, funnel-shaped corolla, 3-5 cm in diameter. Capsule cylindrical, 5-ribbed, covered with yellowish brown tomentose. It blooms in spring.

It grows on the hillside, roadside, and in the bushes near the village. It is distributed in Southwest China.

[collection] spring and summer. Fresh or dry in the shade.

[nature and taste] selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "bitter, cool, with little poison. "

[functions and indications] 1. Selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "clearing heat, removing poison, stopping bleeding, regulating menstruation. Treatment of osteomyelitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, bleeding, hemoptysis, irregular menstruation. "

② "The list of medicinal plants in Guizhou Province": "treating Hongbeng. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.