Spatula bean

Spatula bean

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[source] it is the pod of leguminous plant spatula.

[plant morphology] spatula

Perennial twining herbs. Stem slender, with short coarse hairs. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; stipules lanceolate, with short hairs; leaflets elliptic ovate, about 2-3.5 cm long, 1.3-2.5 cm wide, apex obtuse or suborbicular, slightly concave, with cuspidate, base broadly cuneate, obtuse or truncate, above nearly glabrous, below sparsely short hairs; middle petiole about 1 cm long, both petioles very short, sparsely short hairs; petiole thin, 2.5-4 cm long Cm. 3-6 flowers in raceme, axillary; calyx tubular, corolla yellow. Pods falcate linear, pod nodes obvious. It blooms in autumn.

Born in the wet area of the valley. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry in the sun.

[nature and taste] it is flat in nature and bitter and astringent in taste

[function indications] it can relax muscles and activate collaterals, and relieve pain. Treatment of sciatica, muscle pain.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.