Shi pengzi

Shi pengzi

(Jiangxi traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonyms] Ya pomegranate (a textual research of plant names), balizi, Ya Lizi (Chinese tree taxonomy), Shi pengpeng (Jiangxi traditional Chinese Medicine), Xiao Mulian (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora), bingfenzi (Sichuan).

[source] it is the receptacle of the mulberry plant pearl lotus.

[plant morphology] pearl lotus, also known as Manglietia, kudzu and Bingfen tree.

Evergreen climbing vines. Young branches yellowish brown or purplish brown, brown pilose at first, glabrous later, with longitudinal furrows. Single leaf alternate; leathery, long elliptic, lanceolate or long ovate, 6-21 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, base rounded, apex pointed or short caudate, entire, pubescent below, lateral veins 7-11 pairs, protruding below; petiole stout, 1-2 cm long; stipules about 8 mm long, pubescent at first, caducous. Flowers unisexual, numerous, inserted on the inner wall of fleshy receptacle, receptacle single or paired axillary, sessile or shortly petiolate, globose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., pubescent, glabrous; bracts 3, broadly triangular; male flowers with long pedicels, perianth 4, stamens 2. Achenes are small. The flowering period is from March to October (Yunnan).

Growing in dense forests or shrubs in valleys or waterside. It is distributed in East China, South China and southwest China.

The root of this plant (Pearl lotus root) is also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] collected in early winter and dried in the sun.

[herbal medicine] the receptacle is obconic in shape, gray in appearance, about 1 cm in diameter, with prominent apex, a stalk at the base, verrucous protuberance on the surface, and yellow Tricholoma. It is hard and not easy to break; it contains many yellow ovate achenes and has red peel. It tastes sweet and astringent. It is better to be full and wrinkle free.

[nature and taste] Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine: "sweet and astringent in taste, flat in nature, non-toxic. "

[function and indications] Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine: "it is used to treat testicular deviation, internal hemorrhoids and hematochezia. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.