Booty vine

Booty vine

(Practical Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the root or tender branch of Gymnema sylvestre.

[plant morphology] Gymnema sylvestris

Liana, up to 4 meters long. Branches and inflorescences pilose. Leaves opposite; obovate, ovate or oblong, 2.5-3 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, apex obtuse or short pointed, base narrow or rounded, both sides bare or only pilose on veins; petiole 6-8 mm long, pilose, with tufted glands at the top. Umbelliform cyme axillary, 1.5 cm long; calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovoid; corolla campanulate, yellow, 5-lobed, about 4 mm in diameter, with 5 fleshy scales alternate with corolla lobes; stamens 5, filaments connected into tube; style broad and obtuse, concave conical, protruding outside stamens. Follicles rigid, ca. 5 cm long, base wide. Seeds ovoid, thin and concave, with whorled, white, silky hairs. The flowering period is July.

Growing in forests or shrubs. It is distributed in Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, etc.

[medicinal material] the dry root is cylindrical, about 1-3cm thick, the outer skin is gray brown, rough, with fine cracks and lenticels. Herbs are usually cut into 2-5mm thick oblique slices with yellow section, 4 / 5 xylem, fine pores, wavy cambium, light brown pith and loose texture. It tastes bitter.

[pharmacological action] oral or intramuscular injection of alcohol extract from the leaves of rat can inhibit hyperglycemia induced by anterior pituitary extract, pituitary growth hormone or adrenocorticotropic hormone.

[nature and taste] practical Chinese herbal medicine: "the nature is flat, the taste is bitter. "

[functions and indications] ① practical Chinese herbal medicine: "root, detumescence and detoxification, heat clearing and blood cooling, treatment of multiple abscess, deep abscess, mastitis, carbuncle sores and toxin. "

② "Common Chinese herbal medicine color atlas": "tender branches and leaves, pain, muscle, swelling. For gunshot wounds. Kill lice. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: genjian decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.