Crataegus pinnatifida

Crataegus pinnatifida

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] yeshancha (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet), zabahin luomaniemai (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the fruit of Chuanli, a Rosaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Chuanli, also known as Tangli.

Deciduous trees, up to 12 m high. They usually have spines. The trunk is thick and branched, the bark is gray brown, the branchlets are blue purple and woolly when young. Leaves alternate or clustered on short branches. They are ovate or long ovate, 4-7 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base rounded or subcordate, narrowly broadly cuneate, margin obtuse serrate; petiole 1.5-3 cm long. The flowers are white or pink, 2-2.5cm in diameter, with 5 petals; stamens 25-30, slightly shorter than petals; styles 3-5, free, glabrous. The pear is nearly spherical, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, and red at maturity. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit period is from August to October.

Born on hillsides, fields, villages near the sun. Distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet and other places.

[collection] the mature fruits were harvested from September to October and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "sour and sweet, warm. "

[function indications] "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "xiaoshiji, huayuzhi. Treatment of meat stagnation, indigestion, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis pain, hypertension. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.