Myrica pubescens

Myrica pubescens

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Myrica rubra, Wuqi Chaoyang grass (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass and root of Rosaceae plant Myrica pubescens.

[plant morphology] Myrica pubescens

Perennial herbs, 50-70 cm high, all densely yellowish pilose. The rhizome is short and thick with many fibrous roots. The basal leaves are pinnate compound, with long stalks and obvious stipules. The apical leaflets are large and blunt, and the leaflets on both sides are of different sizes. The margins of the leaflets are coarsely serrated or notched, and the base is cuneate. The stem leaves are alternate, and the smaller they are toward the top of the stem. Flowers solitary or arranged in corymb, yellow; accessory sepals linear lanceolate; calyx lobes ovate triangular; 5 petals; pistils and pistils are majority. Achene slender, with persistent long spiny style. When fruiting, receptacle is yellowish hirsute. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from August to September.

Growing on hillside wasteland or wet grass. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Shandong and Zhejiang.

[collection] collection in summer and autumn. Cut and dry.

[nature and taste] 1. Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, wet, cool. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "Gan Xin, Ping. "

Functions and indications: tonifying spleen and kidney, expelling wind and dampness, removing carbuncle and swelling. It can cure diarrhea, dysentery, leucorrhea, metrorrhagia, rheumatism, lumbocrural pain, traumatic injury, carbuncle and sore.

① Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney, detoxifying. Treat food stagnation, diarrhea, kidney deficiency, low back pain, anemia, mastitis, sore poison. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and removing dampness, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence, relieving inflammation and pain, relieving spasm, treating lumbocrural pain, traumatic injury, mastitis, sore throat, tonsillitis, carbuncle, sore, scrofula, dysentery, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, infantile convulsion. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: tamping.