Ghost lantern

Ghost lantern

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonyms] tiger lantern, white lantern, bitter lantern, red lantern, red yangmiqing, roadside green, night ghost lantern, local antelope, and gang lantern.

[source] the whole plant of the family Nepenthes.

[plant morphology] nepenthes

Small shrubs, 0.9-1 m high. Young branches covered with yellowish brown pubescence. Leaves opposite; stipitate; papery; oblong to narrowly oblong lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or slightly wavy, subglabrous, dorsal veins distinct. Cyme axillary, with 5-9 flowers, densely covered with small black brown hairs; calyx blue purple, with 5 edges, about 10 mm long, with white glandular spots, lobes broad ovate and sharp, slightly enlarged when bearing fruit; corolla nearly white, about 15 mm long, tube about as long as calyx, lobes 5; stamen 4, short, protruding; pistil 1, style prominent, stigma 2-lobed, ovary incomplete 4-locular. Drupe globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., enclosed in calyx. The flowering period is July.

Born in the hills or wilderness. It is distributed in the south of China.

The root or root bark of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical constituents] the roots of the same genus contain zhentongsterol, shematol, zhentongone and zhentongdiol enone. The leaves contain the helminthicidal component zhentongding.

[nature and taste] "bitter slightly sweet, cold. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the medical records of Nanning City: "clearing away heat and detoxification. It is used to treat warm heat disease, bone steaming, fatigue heat, cough and infantile acute convulsion. External use for treating traumatic brain injury. "

② "Guangxi plant list": "root, clearing away heat and toxin, relieving cough, dispelling wind. Treat cold, sore throat, cough, lung disease, stomachache, abdominal pain, furuncle, contusion, rheumatism. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping fresh products.