Water wet Salix

Water wet Salix

(manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment)

[synonym] Du Mu Niu (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole grass of Salicaceae.

[plant morphology] Salix macrophylla

Perennial herbs, 20-50 cm high. Upper part of stem pubescent. Leaves lower opposite, upper alternate, strip lanceolate to substrip, 2-4 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, usually entire. Flowers bisexual, solitary in upper leaf axils, pink, 4-7 mm long; calyx lobes 4, sparsely pubescent outside; petals 4, obovate, apex concave; stamens 8, 4, long and 4 short; ovary inferior, stigma short clavate. The capsule is cylindrical, 4-6 cm long, pubescent, with a cluster of white tassels at the top of the seed.

It is found in swamps and wet hillsides. Distributed in Northeast, North China, northwest, southwest and other places.

[collection] harvest from August to September, wash and dry.

[flavor] light, flat.

[meridian tropism] entering lung, large intestine and bladder meridian.

[function indications] it is used to treat sore throat, hoarseness due to wind heat and diarrhea due to high heat.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-6 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① for throat inflammation: water wet willow leaves with arrow, blue skirt, Jinggu grass, alpine gentian, three needle skin, decoction.

② Treatment of wind heat, cough, hoarseness, bronchitis: water wet willow leaf vegetables with Longshu rhododendron leaf, asparagus, fried soup.