Pinus elliottii

Pinus elliottii

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

Gosling intestines.

[source] it is the whole grass with roots of Sedum parvifolium.

[plant morphology] Sedum parvifolium

Herbs annual, glabrous, with fibrous roots. Stems solitary or clustered, 5-30 cm high. Leaves 3-5 whorls, oblong spatulate, 8-20 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, apex acute, base gradually narrowed, entire, sessile or almost sessile. Inflorescence panicle or corymbose, with long branches and inflorescences in the lower leaf axils; flowers sparse; pedicel 5-8 mm long, thin and weak; sepals 5, narrowly triangular to ovate lanceolate; petals 5, white, oblong ovate; stamens 10; scales broadly spatulate, apex deeply notched; carpels 5, suberect, lower part connate, with small papillae. Even at maturity, the upper part is obliquely spreading; the seeds are few and minute.

Grass, barren slope, stone. Distributed in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Gansu, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] collect the whole grass with roots in spring and summer, wash it, dry it in the shade or use it fresh.

[flavor] sour and astringent, cold.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. Treatment of erysipelas in children, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, soup fire injury, orchitis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: mash juice and spread it.