Caragana

Caragana

(selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

[source] it is the whole grass of Caragana intermedia.

Caragana intermedia

Dwarf shrub, 30-100 cm high, much branched. The bark is yellowish gray, yellowish green or yellowish white; the young branches are silky pilose and the branches are elongated; the stipules on the long branches are persistent and hardened into needles, 3-10 mm long. It has double pinnate compound leaves, 6-18 leaflets, elliptic or obovate elliptic, apex rounded or acute, with fine needle tip, base broadly cuneate, both sides densely covered with gray white pubescence. Flowers usually solitary, or clustered on short branches, pedicel 15-25 mm long, middle upper part articulated; calyx bell shaped; corolla butterfly shaped, yellow, 2-2.5 cm long. Pods lanceolate, apical, 2-2.5 cm long, thick leathery. The seeds are red. The flowering period is from May to June.

It grows on sand dunes, hillsides and dry slopes. Distributed in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and other places.

The root (Caragana root), seed (Caragana seed) and flower (Caragana flower) of this plant are also used for medicine. See special section for details.

The following plants are also used as medicine.

① Caragana microphylla, see "Caragana microphylla fruit" for details.

② Tree Caragana, tall shrubs or small trees, 2-5 meters high, rarely up to 7 meters high. Leaflets 8-14 pinnate. Flower 1 or occasionally 2 on a pedicel, calyx cylindric, calyx teeth very short. Pods linear, flat, glabrous. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is July. Born in plains and sand dunes. Distribution of northeast, North China, northwest and other places.

[nature and taste] medicinal plants in desert areas of China: "sweet, warm. "

[function indications] medicinal plants in desert areas of China: "nourishing yin and nourishing blood. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan (fresh 0.8-1 Liang).

[formula selection] ① irregular menstruation: take Caragana korshinskii in water. (medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

② Treatment of cervical cancer, breast cancer: Caragana two to four Liang, decoction, one dose a day; at the same time, rinse the vagina with Caragana liquid, or use Caragana injection local closure, once a day, so that symptoms can be alleviated. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)