Green cotton vine root

Green cotton vine root

(name of Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources)

[source] it is the root of Gossypium hirsutum.

[plant morphology] qingmianteng, also known as Zhuma, Zhuma, Datong, houtouteng, zhijiateng, houdasheng and hongmianmaoteng.

Evergreen woody vines, up to 15 meters long, smooth and glabrous. The vegetative branch is full of roots. Leaves opposite, thin leathery, elliptic oblong to lanceolate elliptic, 10-16 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, apex short pointed or acuminate, glabrous on the top, sparsely stellate hairs on the bottom, slightly undulate sparsely toothed on the whole or upper margin; petiole 1-3 cm long. Corymbose panicle terminal, 10-14 cm long; flowers aggregated, bisexual, white or greenish white; calyx often 5-lobed, lobes 3-angled; petals 5-ovate, coronoid at the top, whole flower abscission when open; stamens about 8-10, filaments curved wavy, 4-5 mm long; style stick shaped, 1 mm long, stigma 6-lobed, ovary inferior. Capsule gyrate, 2-3 mm long. Seeds oblong, 1 mm long, apex winged. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from October to November.

Born in the wild, often climbing on the cliff. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Taiwan.

The leaves of this plant (Gossypium hirsutum L.) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[function indications] it is used to treat lumbocrural pain.

[prescription selection] 1. To cure the general mood and pain in both legs: the roots of green cotton vine and pig's hoof are boiled together and taken with white sugar. (list of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang)

② For women with postpartum hot flashes, backache, sore feet, sallow complexion and thin muscles: one jin of green cotton vine root, one jin of white horse bone root, half Jin of gold belt root. Stir fry the same thin, add half a jin of yellow rice wine, stuffy night. Divided into five doses, one dose a day, add water to fry, red sugar, yellow rice wine. Take it every morning and evening before meals. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)