Mengzi Wood Blue

Mengzi Wood Blue

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] big iron broom, iron horse bean, white bean, multi flower wood blue.

[source] it is the root of the leguminous plant Magnolia mongolica.

[plant morphology] Magnolia mongolica

Small shrubs, up to 1.5 meters high, young branches with dense white hairs, with significant nodes. Pinnate compound leaves, 4-7 cm long, leaflets 13-17, opposite, narrow rectangular or elliptic rectangular, 5-13 mm long and 3.5-6 mm wide. Paper, with sparse white hair below. Raceme axillary, shorter than leaf sequence, flowers blue purple. Pods, 2.4 cm long.

Born in the mountains and sparse forests. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] collection in summer and autumn. Dry or fresh.

Bitter, cold.

[function indications] anti inflammatory and analgesic, Shujin Huoluo.

[selection] ① treatment of pneumonia: Mengzi mulangen powder for one to two yuan. Take it three times a day with boiled water. Or three to five dollars, fried in water.

② Treatment of vasculitis, osteomyelitis, traumatic injury; trial treatment of tumor: Mengzi mulangen five money to one or two. Soak one jin of wine, 5-10 ml each time, three times a day. Or three to five dollars, fried in cold water.

③ Cure rheumatism paralysis: Mengzi mulangen 2-3 money. Stewed chicken suit.

④ Treatment of sores and ulcers: spread Mengzi blue root powder on the affected area.