Pentagonal grape

Pentagonal grape

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] wild grape (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root bark of Vitis tomentosa.

[plant morphology] Vitis tomentosa

Liana essential, 8 m long. The young branches, petioles and inflorescence axes are densely covered with white or bean sand spider filiform hairs. Leaves ovate or pentagonal ovate, 8-11 cm long, 6-8 cm wide, margin serrate, undivided or inconspicuous 3-5-angled, or 3-5-lobed, first acute, base nearly truncate or shallowly cordate, glabrous above, densely covered with grayish white or grayish brown tomentose below. Panicles 8-11 cm long, branches nearly spreading, densely tomentose; flowers small, yellowish green, pedicellate, glabrous; calyx inconspicuous; petals 5, ca. 1.8 mm; stamens 5. Berry globose, black purple, 6-8 mm in diameter.

It grows in the bush of low hillside, stone cliff or ditch side. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc.

The whole plant and leaves (wild grape vine) of this plant are also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] root bark can be harvested all year round, washed and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly sour in taste, flat in nature. "

[functions and indications] 1. Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "wither meridians, activate blood circulation, tonify deficiency and stop bleeding. Treatment of irregular menstruation, leucorrhea. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "Shujin Huoxue, Qingre Jiedu, Shengji, Lishi. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: tamping or powdering.

[formula selection] ① Jiegu: root bark of wild grape, mashed and mixed with wine, covering the affected area,

② It is divided into three parts: the root of wild vegetable and the root of wild grape. Pound the affected area with honey.

③ Treatment of dysentery: wild grape root skin, Polygonum multiflorum, Potentilla each two money. Fried water, brown sugar. (Guizhou herbal medicine was selected)