Robinia pseudoacacia

Robinia pseudoacacia

(records of TIANRI yam in Zhejiang)

[source] it is the root and fruit of Sophora japonica.

[plant morphology] Robinia pseudoacacia

Deciduous trees, 4-16m high. The bark is grayish brown, the young branches are grayish green, and the biennial branches are purple brown, glabrous, with small lenticels. The upper leaves are gradually larger, ovate elliptic or oblong; the apical leaves are obovate elliptic, 10 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, smooth on the top and sparsely brown pilose along the main veins on the bottom. Panicles lax, terminal or axillary; pedicels brown pubescent. Flowers ca. 20 mm long, white; calyx campanulate, apex 5-lobed, calyx teeth triangular; petals several equal, petals suborbicular, apex slightly concave; stamens 10, subdetached; ovary linear, shortly stipitate, densely sericeous. Pods flat, 4.5 cm long, ca. 12 mm wide, densely pubescent. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows in the mixed forest on the hillside. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] root, which can be collected all year round. The fruit is harvested in autumn.

[function indications] for joint pain: two liang fresh roots of Sophora japonica, two liang skin of Acanthopanax senticosus (Acanthopanax senticosus) and two liang zuandifeng (Acanthopanax senticosus, Radix Lycii, radix ginseng). Water fried, red rice wine, brown sugar, sooner or later before meals each time. Treatment of intestinal parasites and abdominal pain due to unclean diet: stir fried fruits for cooked food, induce vomiting.