Dog Medicine

Dog Medicine

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] chicken bone Changshan, see blood fly.

[source] it is the leaf of xiaojiguchangshan, a neriaceae plant.

[plant morphology] xiaojigu Changshan, also known as asmu and yangjiaomian.

Evergreen shrub, more than 1 meter high. Stem erect, old dry gray, top young branches dark green, with white round or oval lenticels. Leaf 4 whorls, lanceolate, about 8 cm long, 1 cm wide, apex acuminate, base narrow, entire, upper green, lower green gray, main vein and lateral vein obviously raised; no stipule. Cymose panicle, terminal or nearly terminal; calyx short, 5-lobed, lobes triangular ovate; corolla tube thin, nearly apically expanded, lobes 5, oblique obovate; stamens 5, anthers not prominent, base rounded; disk with 2 ligulate glands; carpel 2, free, style filiform, stigma obovate. Follicles linear, 5-6 cm long; seeds elliptic, flat, with white villi at the front.

It grows in the shrubbery of rock mountain. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] it is warm in nature, pungent in taste and poisonous.

Functions and indications: disperse blood and relieve pain, discharge pus and generate muscle. It can cure the wound, bleeding and poison.

[usage and dosage] external use: mash and apply or grind and sprinkle.