Magnolia officinalis

Magnolia officinalis

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

Fish coriander.

[source] it is the leaf of Litsea officinalis.

[plant morphology] Litsea officinalis

Erect perennial herbs. Stem square, purplish red, densely pubescent, upper part with opposite branches. Leaves opposite; elliptic, 3-5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, apex pointed, base cuneate, margin serrate, both sides densely pubescent, with many golden glandular dots below; stipitate. The flowers are small, arranged in compact spikes; the bracts are linear, longer than the flowers; the calyx is bell shaped, 5-toothed; the Corolla is light purple, slightly 2-lipped, with sparse and micro lobes, and the calyx and bracts are white woolly; the stamens are 4, extending out of the corolla tube. Nutlets 4, erect, smooth.

Often on sunny slopes; or cultivated in gardens. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

It is pungent and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving exterior. Cure cold, cure sore, nasopharynx, throat moth.

[prescription selection] 1. For cold and cold, it costs five yuan for wood ginger and three pieces of ginger. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of sores: wood ginger flower and Douchi mashing, external application of the affected area.

③ Treatment of nasopharynx: wood ginger flower tamped down the nostrils.

④ Moth treatment: wood ginger flower mash juice clothing.