Three drill wind

Three drill wind

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[alias] Piper nigrum and Folium morifolium (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the bark of Cinnamomum officinale.

[plant morphology] Sanya Wuyao, also known as xianglimu, Sanya diaozhang, houcatalpa, Acer truncatum, Alpinia officinalis, pseudolaoshan stick and ginger sheep.

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 3-10m high. Leaves alternate, ovate or broad ovate, 6.5-12 cm long and 5.5-10 cm wide, apex acute or slightly obtuse, entire or upper 3-lobed, green above, with short hairs at the beginning, glabrous behind, grayish green below, densely brown yellow, sericeous or glabrous, with three veins; petiole 2-3 cm long. Flowers unisexual, allotype, pale yellow; integrated umbels, axillary, total pedicels short; perianth segments 6, fertile stamens 9, anthers 2-locular, intropetal lobed. Drupe globose, 7-8 mm in diameter, red when fresh, grayish brown when dry, hairy.

It is found in valley and stream, mixed wood forest or forest margin. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "the taste is pungent and the nature is warm. "

[function indications] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation, relaxing tendons, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. Treatment of traumatic injury, blood stasis, swelling and pain. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping.