Melastoma pubescens

Melastoma pubescens

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonyms] shankeluo, honghuayemudan, baoyalang (Guangxi medical plant directory), jackal dog tongue, red explosive tooth wolf (Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine").

[source] it is the root and leaf of Melastoma pubescens.

[plant morphology] Rhododendron pubescens

Erect shrub, 1-2m high. The stems and branches are covered with scattered and expanded long coarse hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate lanceolate to lanceolate, 10-14 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base rounded or blunt, main vein 5, above green, bald net, below often red, veins with scattered, compressed sparse hair. The flowers are large, 1-3 on the branch tip, 7-8 cm in diameter, purplish red; calyx tube covered with long and hard setae, lobes linear lanceolate, much shorter than calyx tube, with equal additional lobes; petals 5; stamens 10. Fruit cup-shaped, with long hard red hairs. The flowering period is May.

Born in the wilderness, grass, stream or bush. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guangzhou army's Manual of common Chinese herbal medicine: "astringent, slightly warm. "

[functions and indications] ① in the list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: "root: for treating Sha Qi, snakebite and traumatic injury; leaf: for cooling blood, detumescence, hemostasis, pain relief and regeneration. "

② Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "astringent hemostasis, Xiaoshi Zhili. Root: treatment of watery diarrhea, hematochezia, women menorrhagia. Ye: treatment of traumatic bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 Liang. External use: grind and sprinkle.