Sour is not smooth

Sour is not smooth

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Polygonum bifurcatum, Polygonum bifurcatum and Zingiber officinale (medicinal plants in desert areas of China).

[source] it is the whole plant of Polygonum bifidum.

[plant morphology] Polygonum bifidum

Perennial herbs, 1-1.5 m high. Stem from the base began to produce many forked branches, forming a semicircular cluster. Leaves alternate, linear lanceolate or oblong, 15 cm long and 3 cm wide, entire, hairy; shortly stipitate or sessile; stipules membranous, brown, dehiscent, glabrous. Panicles terminal, spreading; flowers small, white or yellowish. Nutlets elliptic, with 3 sharp edges. Seeds elliptic.

It is distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Sichuan and Tibet.

The roots of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and dry in the shade.

[chemical constituents] fresh leaves contain Isoquercitrin.

[flavor] sour, bitter and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, eliminating accumulation, dispersing gall and stopping diarrhea. Treatment of large and small intestinal heat, gall, heat diarrhea abdominal pain.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan, or grind 0.5-1 yuan.

[selected formula] treating abdominal pain due to heat diarrhea: one acid does not slip away. At the end of the study. Take it three times a day, one money each time, with boiling water. If you don't slip five yuan, Ophiopogon japonicus and Rubia cordifolia will each have three yuan. At the end of the study. Take one for each, three times a day, boiled water. (the following is the Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)