Spareribs

Spareribs

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] guangxiangteng (a textual research on the names of plants) and manshanxiang (a selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines).

[source] it is the root bark of the Annonaceae.

[plant morphology] Cucurbitaceae polybracteata

Climbing evergreen vines, up to 10 m long. The stems and vines are gray green, with small lenticels, and the branchlets are covered with yellowish brown hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong, 4-15 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate to round, entire, few glabrous above, densely covered with yellowish brown pubescence below, lateral veins protruding on both sides of leaves, such as ribs. The flowers are small, yellow, with several flowers in a cluster, opposite to the leaves. Fruit globose, about 1.5 cm in diameter, stipe about 3 cm long, all covered with yellow hairs.

Born in the valley roadside, wet forest. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] all year round. Cut into sections and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "pungent and astringent, warm. "

[functions and indications] ① textual research on names and facts of plants: "detoxify, nourish blood and clear away heat. "

② "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "Shujin, Huoxue, Xiaoyan, Zhixue. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, fractures, injuries. "

[usage and dosage] external use: Yanmo Tiao Fu.