Acanthopanax senticosus

Acanthopanax senticosus

(Emei medicine plant)

[source] it is the bark of Acanthopanax senticosus.

[plant morphology] Liangwang tea, also known as Liangwang tea.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, 3-6 m high, sometimes up to 13 m, spinless. Branchlets green or grayish green, with special odor. Leaf blade leathery, oblong to oblong lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, 6-18 cm long, 4-8 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base round or broadly cuneate, 3-veined, margin sparsely serrate; petiole 2-16 cm long. The panicle is composed of many umbels, 7-9 cm long, sometimes 18 cm long; the diameter of the umbel is about 2.5 cm; the calyx has 5 teeth, tiny; the petals are 5, greenish; the stamens are 5; the ovary is inferior, the style is 2, the lower part is united, the upper part is bifurcated. Drupe flat, 5-6 mm in diam., black. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit ripens from September to October.

Growing in shrubs or mixed forests. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

[function indications] it is used to treat traumatic injuries.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: soaking wine.