A cage of chicken

A cage of chicken

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[source] it's the root of the Acanthaceae.

[plant morphology] shanyilongji

Perennial herbs, 20-45 cm high. The stem is tufted, square, with nodes, and the stem and leaf are densely covered with inverted short hairs or long woolly hairs. The leaf blade is elliptic, 2.5-4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, pointed at both ends, entire. The flowers are axillary, with 4 involucral bracts, 2 blue flowers in each bract, 5 calyx, and 5-lobed corolla tube.

It grows on grass slope. Distributed in Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] pungent, slightly bitter, cool.

[function indications] sweating, relieving exterior, clearing lung and relieving cough.

[selection] 1. To cure cold and fever: three to five dollars for a cage chicken. Simmer water clothes.

② Cure cough: mountain a cage chicken five money. Simmer water clothes.