Milk milk

Milk milk

(Zhejiang folk herbs)

[synonyms] Niu Rufu (questioning materia medica), Tai Nai Zi (Fujian folk herbal medicine), ye pipa, Shan Nai, Niu Ruzhu, Mao Tianxian Guo, Da Ye Niu Nai Zi (Zhejiang common folk herbal medicine), Nai Zi (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the fruit of a mulberry plant, tianxianguo.

[plant morphology] tianxianguo

Deciduous small trees or shrubs, about 3-8 m high. The branches are reddish brown. The leaf blade is long ovate or obovate, 7-20 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, wider above the middle, apex acuminate, base round or slightly heart-shaped, entire, with short hairs on the top and fine hairs on the middle vein below, 5-7 pairs of lateral veins, veinlets conspicuous, reticulate; petiole 2-4 cm long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, light red. Inflorescence cryptocephalous; flowers unisexual, florets numerous, inserted in fleshy receptacles; receptacles petiolate, usually solitary or paired in axils, globose or nearly pear shaped, ca. 15 mm in diameter, purplish red, covered with white short hairs or glabrous; bracts 4, not glabrescent; stamens pedunculate, perianth 4, stamens 2 or 3. Achenes are small. Huapeng, April. The ripening period of cryptocarps is from August to September.

It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan.

The root (milk pulp root) and stem and leaf (milk wood) of this plant are also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[harvest in autumn].

[functions and indications] 1. Summary of traditional Chinese medicine: "treating hemorrhoids. "

② "Slow down, moisten the intestines". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.