Callicarpa arborea

Callicarpa arborea

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonyms] Zizhu (selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), muzizhu (selected Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine), dazhuzizhu (Dai name).

[source] it is the root and leaf of Callicarpa australis.

[plant morphology] Callicarpa australis

Evergreen tree, 3-10m high, with stellate hairs. Stem cylindrical. Single leaf, opposite, leathery, oblong, 15-24 cm long, 7-9 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base wide cuneate, with few hairs on the top, densely stained yellow hairs on the bottom, entire, 7-9 pairs of lateral veins. Many flowers densely arranged into axillary cymes, small flowers, purplish red. Drupe berry shaped, globose, about 2 mm in diameter, purplish red. It blooms in summer.

Most of them live on roadsides or in sparse forests. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

[collect] root, dig, wash, slice and dry all year round. Leaves, harvested in summer.

[nature and taste] selected Chinese herbal medicines of Simao in Yunnan Province: "the nature is flat, the taste is bitter. "

[function indications] selected Chinese herbal medicines from Yunnan Simao: "cooling blood to stop bleeding. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, gastrointestinal bleeding, bleeding, women metrorrhagia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: grind the end and spread it on the affected area.