Schima superba

Schima superba

(Jinhua, selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)

[synonym] mugwort tree (Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines) and he tree (Chinese higher plant Atlas).

[source] it is the root bark of Schima superba.

[plant morphology] Schima superba

Trees, 8-18 m high; glabrous, or young branches slightly hairy. The leaves are leathery, ovate elliptic to oblong, 10-12 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, and the petiole is 1.4-1.8 cm long. Flowers white, single axillary or apically forming short racemes; pedicels 1.2-1 cm long, usually erect; sepals 5, margin hairy; petals 5, obovate; stamens extremely numerous; ovary base densely hairy. Capsule subglobose, ca. 1. 5 cm in diam., 5-lobed, pericarp woody. The flowering period is May.

It grows in the mixed forest of mountains. It is distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Taiwan, Guizhou, Sichuan, etc.

[collection] all year round.

It's poisonous.

[function indications] external application of acne, nameless swelling toxin.

Don't take it orally. (the following is from Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines.)