Cap orchid

Cap orchid

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] it is the bark and root bark of purple stem of Camelliaceae.

[plant morphology] purple stem

Small trees. Bark brown, branchlets hairy or smooth. Leaves alternate, often gathered at the top of branches; leathery; elliptic, obovate to oblong elliptic, 5-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex apical, base narrowly cuneate, rarely rounded, margin sparsely crenate, hairy or nearly smooth; petiole 5-8 mm long. Flowers white, solitary below leaves or axils; pedicels 4-8 mm long, but also 2 cm long; bracteoles 2, lanceolate; sepals 5, similar to bracts; corolla 5, broadly ovoid; stamens numerous, filaments base United. Capsule oblate, 5-ribbed. The flowering period is April.

It grows in the forest edge and half shade of low mountain area. It is distributed from central China to Sichuan.

[flavor] it is cool, hard and nontoxic.

[function indications] Shujin Huoxue. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism and numbness.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: soak wine, 0.5-1 Liang.