Little white support

Little white support

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Artemisia ordosica, Aconitum stylosum (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Aconitum plicatum or Aconitum Formosa in Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] 1. Aconitum lappa

Erect herbs. The tuberous root column forms carrot shape, about 4 cm long, often has the seed root, the outer skin is dark brown. The stem is 50-80 cm high. The leaves are pentagonal, 5.5-13 cm long and 8.5-20 cm wide, 3-lobed, central lobe obovate rhombic, 3-lobed, lobules narrowly ovate; the other 2-3 stem leaves are sparsely arranged and smaller. Raceme 16-30 cm long, densely white puberulent and spreading yellow glandular hairs; pedicel 1-4.5 cm long; bracteoles elliptic, 3.5-7 mm long; sepals 5, purplish blue, sparsely puberulent outside, upper sepals boat shaped galeate, lower margin nearly straight, 1.3-2 cm long; petals 2, glabrous, short; stamens numerous; carpels 5. Follicles, mostly 4, with many seeds.

It grows in alpine mountain area, grass slope and under forest. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places,

② Beautiful Aconitum

herbaceous. Tubers small, obconic, ca. 7 mm long. The aerial part of the stem is 6.5-30 cm high, glabrous. Basal leaves 2-3, with long stalks; leaf blade outline round pentagonal, 1-2 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, 3-lobed, lobes finely lobed, lobules lanceolate or strip-shaped, glabrous; cauline leaves 1-2. Inflorescence racemose with 1-4 flowers; pedicel 2-6 cm long, with retroflexed pubescence and upper spreading pubescence; bracteoles strip-shaped or absent; sepals 5, blue, upper sepals galeate boat shaped, 1.7-2 cm long from base to beak, lateral sepals 1.3-1.6 cm long; petals 2, glabrous, spur about 1.5 mm long; stamens numerous; carpels 5, ovary pubescent.

In the mountain grass slope or shrub edge. It is distributed in Northwest Yunnan, Southwest Sichuan and Southeast Tibet.

[collection] harvest in autumn and winter, wash and dry.

[nature and taste] Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "hard work, warm, highly toxic. "

[function indications] Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, activating collaterals and relieving pain. For lumbar muscle strain, soft tissue contusion, joint sprain, rheumatoid arthritis, intercostal neuralgia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 50-100 mg, once or twice a day, with wine or warm water.

[taboo] selected works of the whole exhibition: surgery: "it is forbidden for children under five years old. "