Salted shrimp flower

Salted shrimp flower

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonyms] salted prawn flower with big leaves, paparazzi (flora of Guangzhou), wanchonghua, gougoumugen (list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants), paparazzi flower (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of salted shrimp flower in Compositae.

[plant morphology] salted shrimp flower

Annual erect herb, about 1 m tall, gray pilose. Leaves alternate, sessile or shortly stipitate, ovate or elliptic lanceolate, 2-7 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, apex short pointed, base cuneate, margin shallowly toothed, covered with gray pubescence below. Inflorescence ovate, ca. 1 cm long, ca. 8 mm in diameter, scattered or paired, or arranged in a leafy panicle; involucre green, bracts in series, short pointed, outer row shorter; flowers small, mostly bisexual, tubular, 5-lobed, lavender. Achene short, 4-5-ribbed, corolla white, glabrescent.

Born on grass slope. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[chemical constituents] the root contains flavonoid glycosides, triterpenoids, phytosterols, volatile oil, amino acids and organic acids.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, flat, non-toxic. "

[function indications] for wind heat, cold, malaria, heat diarrhea, liver Yang headache.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of cold and heat, snake injury, malaria. "

② Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and stopping diarrhea. Treatment of heat diarrhea, headache, cold and wind heat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

[selection] 1. Treatment of heat diarrhea: two pairs of paparazzi flowers. Take it in water.

② Treat liver Yang headache: paparazzi spend three Liang. Take it three times.

③ Cure cold wind heat: paparazzi flower one or two, mountain sesame one or two. Fried in water, twice a day. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine was selected)