Root bark of Prunus mume

Root bark of Prunus mume

(list of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Zhejiang)

Another name is tuchangshan.

[source] it is the root bark of Prunus mume.

[plant morphology] Prunus mume

Deciduous shrub, 1.5-4 m high. The bark is yellowish brown, flaking; the young branches are glabrous, reddish brown. Leaves opposite, elliptic ovate to lanceolate ovate, 5-11 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate or long acuminate, base broadly cuneate or suborbicular, margin serrate, sparsely white hirsute or glabrous above, white hirsute below, veins axillary and tufted with hairs, veins from base 5, main vein base and petiole often red or mauve. Raceme, 5-12 cm long, 5-11 flowers, 2.5-3 cm in diameter; calyx tube cup-shaped, 4-lobed, lobes triangular ovate, apex pointed; calyx tube and pedicel surface are densely covered with white short bristles; petals 4, broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, pure white; stamens numerous, outer whorl, stamens longer than inner whorl; style 4, nearly upper half separated, ovary inferior, 4-locular. Capsule obovate, 4-lobed; seeds numerous. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows on both sides of the valley or on the edge of the forest. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou.

[function indications] treat malaria, headache, contusion, lumbago and hypochondriac pain, stomachache.

[selection] 1. Treatment of malaria, contusion, lumbago and stomachache: Prunus mume root bark Baqian. Stew with dog meat and take white sugar. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

② Treatment of headache in the sun: root skin of Prunus mume and sugar were mashed, applied to the affected area. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)