Rice, flower and fruit

Rice, flower and fruit

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[source] it is the fruit of Rhododendron.

[plant morphology] rice flower, also known as pearl flower, Xiabo, yangdoufan and xiaosantiaozi.

Evergreen shrubs, up to 2 m tall, smooth and glabrous. Leaves alternate, obovate lanceolate or ovate elliptic, 5-8 cm long and 1.2-2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base slightly rounded or broadly cuneate, margin serrate, leathery, glabrous, petiole short. Raceme axillary, 3-7 cm long, constant inflorescence gathered at branch ends; bracts lanceolate, caducous; calyx tube campanulate, 5-toothed; corolla white, tubular ovate, 6-8 mm long, apex 5-lobed; stamens 10, anthers with 2 awn like appendages; ovary inferior. Berry globose, ca. 5 mm in diam. The flowering period is April. The fruiting period is July.

It grows mostly in shrubbery. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Yunnan.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet. "

[functions and indications] ① Guizhou folk medicine: "detumescence". Treatment of systemic edema.

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. It can also be used to remove the bullet and sand. "

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