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(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] zhujiehuang (Chinese herbal medicine plant), xiaojiegu (Guangxi medicine plant directory).

[source] it is the whole plant of Acanthaceae.

[plant morphology] Rabdosia Serrulata

They are scattered herbs. Stems with fine longitudinal lines, twigs covered with short hairs. Leaves lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, slightly curved falcate, 4-11 cm long, entire or dentate. Flowers dark red, drooping cymes, on the top of branches, bracts and bracteoles are small, linear; sepals 5, linear cone; corolla tube long, limb 2, lip shaped; stamens 2. Capsule long elliptic, about 0.5 cm long, with short stalk; 4 seeds.

In sparse forests or shrubs. It is distributed in the South and southwest of China.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Chinese herbal medicine plants: "Ganping. "

[function indications] it is used to treat jaundice hepatitis, traumatic fracture, rheumatism and pain.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis, detumescence, relieving pain. Treatment of traumatic fracture, anemia, jaundice, rheumatism. "

② "Chinese herbal medicine plants": "it has the effect of clearing liver and gallbladder, treating jaundice and hepatitis ascites. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan. External use: tamping or frying and washing.