Beef ribs

Beef ribs

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] glutinous rice medicine (Guizhou folk medicine), axillary grass, huanghuamu, digaocao (Guangxi medicine plant directory).

[source] it is the whole plant of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Rhododendron microphylla

Erect, branched, subshrub, usually less than 0.5 m tall. Leaves very small, oblong, obovate to obovate, 1-2 cm long, apex concave, truncate or rounded, usually broad, base cuneate, margin dentate, back gray white, densely stellate pilose. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, usually shortly petiolate, ca. 8 mm in diam. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes valvate; petals 5, yellow; stamens numerous; mature carpels smooth or rugose, with short awns. It blooms in winter.

Born on the roadside of wasteland. It is distributed in South China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest after autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is slightly cold, the taste is bitter and pungent. "

Functions and indications: clearing away dampness and heat, relieving sores and toxins. For dysentery, jaundice, sores, swelling and toxin.

① "Guizhou folk medicine": "eliminate red swelling sores, treat sores. "

② "List of medicinal plants in Guangxi": cool and detoxify. Treatment of knife wounds, jaundice. "

③ Guizhou herbal medicine: "eliminating heat and removing dampness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping.

[formula selection] ① for dysentery or jaundice: one to two ribs of cattle. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of sores: appropriate amount of cattle ribs, chewing down, apply to the affected area.

③ Treatment of redness, swelling and sores: beef ribs and Bidens bipinnata are equally divided, and the affected area is covered with cashmere. (Guizhou herbal medicine was selected)