Male soybean

Male soybean

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Yunnan bamao)

Another name: Sausage bean and Paiqian bean.

[source] it is the fruit of the leguminous plant realgar.

[plant morphology] male soybean

tree. Pinnate compound leaves, 4-8 pairs of leaflets, ovate or elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, pilose on both sides. Flowers light red, raceme, drooping. The fruit is cylindrical, brown at maturity, 30-60 cm in length and 2-3 cm in diameter, with more than ten yellow, sulfur flavored oblate seeds.

Most of them are cultivated. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] collected in autumn and winter. Use it after frying.

Bitter and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, regulating qi and moistening intestines. Treat stomachache, malaria, cold, measles, varicella, constipation.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.