Eriobotrya japonica

Eriobotrya japonica

(classified herbal medicine)

[synonym] wild loquat.

[source] it is the fruit of Eriobotrya japonica.

[plant morphology] Eriobotrya japonica

Evergreen trees or shrubs, 3-6M high. Branchlets dark brown, current year's branches angular. Leaves alternate, thinly leathery, obovate elliptic, long elliptic to oblanceolate, 7-12.6 cm long, 1.7-3.5 cm wide, margin serrate, apex acute, base cuneate; petiole 6-12 mm long. The flowers are white, fragrant, 4-numbered; the male flowers are 1-3 cymose florets, corolla wheel shaped; the sterile pistils are conical, apex obtuse. Female flowers simple 1, calyx cup-shaped, lobes ovate triangular, apex obtuse or rounded, 1 mm long, with sparse bristles; petals elliptic ovate, 2 mm long; sterile stamens shorter than corolla; pistil as long as corolla, ovary ovate, stigma discoid, 4-lobed, corolla. Fruit globose, stigma persistent, red at maturity, 6 mm in diam., longitudinally sulcate; 4 separate nuclei. It blooms in spring.

He was born in shulinyang of mountain area. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan.

The leaves (Eriobotrya japonica leaf) and roots (Eriobotrya japonica root) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in summer and autumn.

[functions and indications] 1. Classified herbal medicine: it is used to treat itching, rheumatism and numbness. "

② "Collection of commonly used folk herbs": "Qingfei, Jiere, xiaru. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: stewed meat, 7-10 pieces.