Panax notoginseng

Panax notoginseng

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] caozishu (Leguminosae), jixinaituotuotuo (Kunming folk herbal medicine), bulbous hairy petal flower, shancaogou, paihongcao, shanjitou (Yunnan herbal medicine selection), shantugua, Caogou Yinxiao, dicaogou (Honghe herbal medicine), and a single seedling (Sichuan herbal medicine).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Panax notoginseng.

[plant morphology] Panax notoginseng

Perennial herbs, 10-20 cm high. The root tuber is hypertrophic, fusiform to subglobose, with brown outer skin. The stem is much branched, and the branches are angular, densely covered with sparse Brown villi. Leaves alternate, oblong or linear oblong, 1.5-4 cm long, 6-7 mm wide, apex obtuse or acute, pointed, base rounded or cuneate, sparsely pilose above, densely white pilose below, petiole 1 mm long, densely hairy: stipules linear. Flowers yellow, solitary in leaf axils; calyx cup-shaped, calyx teeth lanceolate, densely rusty villous; corolla abaxially sparsely silky pubescent. Pods oblong, apex with short beak, densely rusty villous. Seeds purple black, kidney shaped. The flowering period is June.

On shady hillsides or in pine forests. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet.

[collection] excavation in summer.

[taste] sweet and bitter, flat.

① "Kunming folk commonly used herbs": "bitter slightly sweet, flat. "

② "Yunnan herbal medicine selection": sweet and astringent, flat. "

③ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "sweet slightly bitter, flat. "

Functions and indications: invigorate the stomach, relieve pain and detoxify. It is used to treat stomachache, diarrhea, dysentery, infantile malnutrition, testicular swelling, hernia, traumatic injury and sore poison.

① "Kunming folk commonly used herbal medicine": "analgesia, remove sore poison. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "invigorating stomach, astringent, analgesic. "

③ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "treatment of testicular swelling and pain, hernia, dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: grind and apply.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of gastrointestinal pain and diarrhea: bulb hair petal flower root, dried powder, five to one cent each time, boiled water delivery service. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

② Treatment of infantile malnutrition, dyspepsia: fresh bulb root hair petal flower root one to two raw, or with dry product five money to one or two, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

③ Cure Europe hit injury: miansanqi soak wine clothes. (common folk herbs in Kunming)

④ Cure sore poison: grind the root of Panax notoginseng and apply it with honey. (common folk herbs in Kunming)