Patrinia villosa

Patrinia villosa

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

Another name: Dunhu, Gongbu district.

[source] it is the whole plant of Veronica javanica in Scrophulariaceae.

[plant morphology] Veronica javanica

Annual herb, whole plant hairy. The stem is developed from the root, ascending, thick short or slender, with scattered and repeated branches, leaves opposite, ovate, apex obtuse, base round, subcordate or halberd shaped, margin serrate, petiole very short. Flowers small, terminal or axillary, arranged in short racemes; corolla radial, purplish red, corolla tube very short, petals 4-5. Capsule small, broadly obcordate, shorter than persistent calyx.

Born on the roadside, ditch.

[collection] harvest from June to August.

It is cool in nature, bitter and pungent in taste.

[function indications] dispel wind and heat, detoxify and detumescence. Treatment of mastitis, dysentery, injuries, all sores and boils swelling.

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