Water hyacinth seedling

Water hyacinth seedling

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] Qu rubella (Tibetan name).

[source] the whole plant of Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] water hyacinth seedling

Herbs perennial, stoloniferous. The leaf blade is nearly round, kidney shaped or broadly ovate, 0.4-2.5 cm long, 0.4-2.8 cm wide, 3-or 5-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed near the middle, base broadly cuneate, truncate or heart-shaped, with 3 veins at the base; petiole 3-13 cm long. Stem 4.5-16 cm high; bracts strip-shaped; flower diameter about 7 mm; sepals 5, pale green, broadly elliptic, glabrous; petals 5, yellow, narrowly elliptic, base with honeypot; stamens and carpels are numerous. Aggregate fruit ovoid, up to 6 mm; achenes densely arranged, flat, longitudinally ribbed.

It grows in the wet area beside the ditch, or in the saline and alkaline marsh by the sea or river. It is distributed in Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China.

[collection] harvest from July to September.

Cold in nature, sweet and light in taste.

[function indications] diuretic detumescence, Qufeng dehumidification. Treatment of arthritis, edema.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1.5 yuan.