Panax notoginseng

Panax notoginseng

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Simao, Yunnan)

[synonym] Tengzi Sanqi.

[source] it is the bulbil of notoginseng.

[plant morphology] Panax notoginseng

Small fleshy vines. Leaves alternate, fleshy, ovoid, 4-6 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, smooth and glabrous; petiole short. The leaf axillary nodular bulbils, the surface is nodular, green, about 3-4 cm in diameter. Long spikes axillary, 20 cm long, pendulous; flowers small, green, corolla 5-petal.

Most of them are cultivated.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] slightly bitter, warm.

[function indications] nourishing, strengthening waist and knee, detumescence and stasis. It is used to treat lumbago and knee arthralgia, weakness after illness, traumatic injury and fracture.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: stewed chicken or pork, 1-2 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] treatment of sprain: notoginseng vine, yuzilan, Achyranthes bidentata, fennel. Tamp the affected part.