Yangque flower

Yangque flower

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] zhamaxing (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the flower of Caragana yunnanensis.

Plant morphology of Caragana yunnanensis

Deciduous shrub, 1-2 m high, with many branches and grayish brown skin. Stipules triangular or ovate lanceolate; rachis on Long Branch persistent and hardened into needle, 2-5 cm long, rachis on short branch abscission; pinnate compound leaves, leaflets 10-14, oblong or obovate lanceolate, 7-9 mm long, 3-3.5 mm wide, apex with short hard tip, lower surface pubescent. The flower is solitary; there are nodes in the middle of the pedicel; the calyx is broad and cylindrical, one side of the base is oblique and saccate; the calyx teeth are triangular, nearly as long as the calyx; the Corolla is yellow, the flag petal is nearly round, and the apex is round. Pods cylindric, 30-45 mm long, outside densely pilose.

In the forest edge, roadside and hillside shrubs. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet.

The root of this plant (yangquehua root) is also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[nature and taste] it is flat in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste.

[function indications] tonifying qi and kidney. Treatment of dizziness, headache, tinnitus, dizziness, tuberculosis, cough, infantile malnutrition.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.