Sweet potato

Sweet potato

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan)

[synonym] Eriobotrya japonica, milkvetch root and Turtledove seed (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan).

[source] it is the root and fruit of Ficus fissa.

Ficus fissa

Shrubs, up to 1.5 m tall, with milk. The bark is grayish brown. The leaves are simple, alternate, hard papery or nearly leathery, obovate, salty oblanceolate, with deeply cleft teeth on the edge, dark green on the top, light green on the bottom, coarsely Brown hairy, more dense on the veins; the petioles are densely white pilose. The inflorescence of cryptocephalus is solitary in leaf axils; the flowers are small and numerous; the receptacle is petiolate, thick, hairy, with bracts at the base and mouth of the receptacle, with green surface, white spots and pubescence; the flowers are unisexual, monoecious, with 2-6 male perianth lobes and 1-2 stamens; the female perianth is sometimes incomplete or absent, and the style is oblique and linear. Cryptocephalon ovoid or subglobose, hairy and white spotted. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from August to October.

It grows in shrubbery and roadside. It is distributed in Sichuan and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] root: astringent, slightly salty, flat. Fruit: sweet.

[function indications] lower breast, convergence. Treatment of red and white dysentery, gonorrhea, swelling and pain, less milk, Jiuzi ulcers, hemorrhoids.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 5-8 yuan.