Lion seven

Lion seven

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] astringent pimple.

[source] it is the rhizome and root of Rhodiola stenophylla.

[plant morphology] Rhodiola stenophylla

Perennial herbs, 30-40 cm high. The rhizome is stout, massive and branched. Stem round, erect, single or clustered, yellowish green. Leaf blade linear or linear lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, apex acute, margin sparsely serrate, or where entire, base gradually narrowed, downward extended, sessile; to base, leaf blade gradually smaller, scaly, ovate lanceolate to ovate triangular. Flowers dioecious; cymes terminal, densely capitate; flowers small, yellow green; sepals 4-5, lanceolate; petals 4-5, strip oblanceolate; stamens 8-10; pistils 4-5, free. Follicles lanceolate, 7-8 mm long, apex beaklike. Seeds very fine, linear lanceolate, grayish brown.

Born in mountainous rocky grassland. It is distributed from Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi to Xinjiang, and Hebei in the East.

[collection] all year round.

[herbal medicine] rhizome is massive, irregular, 3-6cm in diameter, with gray brown and uneven surface, many bud eyes protruding, thin and wrinkled cork, easy to fall off, hard, loose bud eyes, purple brown cross section, many pores and spongy. The root is thin, hard, not easy to break, the section is round, reddish brown, with most light colored patterns. The taste is sour and bitter.

It is astringent and warm.

Functions and indications: stop bleeding, relieve pain, break hardness, eliminate accumulation and stop diarrhea. Treatment of traumatic injury, low back pain, vomiting, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, dysentery.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-4 yuan.

[selected prescription] for hematemesis, metrorrhagia and dysentery: shiziqi, cinnabar Qi, Xiezi Qi, suogudan and pomegranate peel, 2 yuan each. Decoct in water and add or subtract with symptoms.