Mountain cherry

Mountain cherry

(compendium)

[synonyms] Zhu Tao, Mai Ying (Wuxi materia medica), Niu Tao, Ying Tao (Natural History), Ying Tao, Ying Dou (BU Lu), Li Tao, naitao (Meng?), Mei Huai (Bamin Tongzhi), Shan Ying Tao (compendium), Mao Tao (Hebei common tree illustration), wild cherry, Shan Dou (Chinese tree taxonomy).

[source] it is the fruit of Rosaceae cherry.

[plant morphology] Cherry

Deciduous shrub, up to 3 meters high. The young branches are densely yellow tomentose. There are usually three buds in parallel, with flower buds on both sides and leaf buds in the middle. Flower buds open earlier or simultaneously with leaf buds. Leaf blade obovate or elliptic, 4-7 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate or thinly 3-lobed, base broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrate, dark green above, pubescent below, with dense yellowish villi; petiole 2-7 mm long, densely hairy; stipules linear. Flowers solitary or two; sepals 5, base even tubular, both inside and outside hairy; petals 5, white or pinkish, obovate; stamens numerous; pistils 1. Drupe Subelliptic or subglobose, red when ripe, ca. 1 cm in diam. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from May to June.

Born on the sunny hillside. It is distributed in most areas of China.

The seeds of this plant (Prunus Cerasus seed) are also used for medicine. See special section for details. Its nucleolus is also used as "Yu Li Ren" in the market, see "Yu Li Ren".

[nature and taste] 1. Bielu: "pungent, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Seven volumes of the book of food": "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[function indications] Yiqi Gujing. It can cure diarrhea and spermatorrhea.

① Bielu: "it is mainly used to stop diarrhea, remove heat, regulate the middle and improve temper. "

② "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "Buzhong Yiqi, main water valley dysentery, Zhixie essence. "

③ Qi Juan Shi Jing: "tonifying the heart qi, adjusting the middle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Jin.