Triceps pubescens

Triceps pubescens

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[synonym] huangmaishan pepper.

[source] it is the root, leaf and bark of Cinnamomum camphora.

[plant morphology] xiangmianye

Small trees, 4-12m high. Young shoots and leaves covered with yellow or rust colored pubescence. Leaves alternate, nearly leathery, ovoid or oblong elliptic, 6-9 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, apex caudate acuminate, base broadly cuneate, dark green above, yellow or rust pubescent below, veins 3 from base; petiole about 1 cm long, hairy. Flowers small, yellowish green, unisexual, dioecious; solitary or clustered spikes; perianth segments 6, oblong; fertile stamens 9, anthers 2-locular, intropetal lobed. The fruit is spherical, 5-6 mm in diameter. The flowering period is from February to March.

In sparse forest or hillside shrub. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] all year round. Dried in the shade or powdered.

[flavor] slightly sweet and pungent, warm.

[function indications] hemostasis and myogenesis, regulating qi and relieving pain. It can treat sprain, trauma, blood stasis, bleeding, chest pain and cough.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or grinding powder scattering.

[selected formula] treatment of sprain and blood stasis pain: three tendons of Maoye, leaves of Paeonia suffruticosa, leaves of Datura stramonium, tamping on the affected part.