Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[source] it is the tuber of the orchid plant hyacinth.

[plant morphology] hyacinth dichotomous

Herbaceous, 30-50 cm high. Tubers 2, subobovate, fleshy, yellow white, with fibrous roots at the top. Stem erect, glabrous, usually with several scalelike leaves in the middle, gradually turning upward into bracts. There are 2 basal leaves at the base, which are elliptic, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate elliptic, with blunt apex and sheath petioles at the base. Spike terminal, there are more than 10 flowers, white, outside 3 flowers were slightly green.

It grows on the moist grass under the wild forest.

[collection] from August to October.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "bitter, flat. "

[function indications] "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "tonifying the lung and promoting muscle, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. Treatment of tuberculosis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bleeding, trauma, carbuncle, soup fire injury. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan. External use: tamping.