Myrica rubra

Myrica rubra

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] big tree red bayberry and wild red bayberry (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the bark or root bark of Myrica rubra.

[plant morphology] Myrica rubra

Evergreen trees, 5-15m high. The bark is grayish brown, the branchlets and buds are densely felted, and the lenticels are dense and obvious. The leaves are simple, alternate, aggregated on the upper part of the branches, leathery, wedge-shaped obovate to oblanceolate obovate, 5-18 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, entire or occasionally with a few round teeth or serrations above the middle, and extremely sparse golden glands below the leaves. Panicle axillary; male inflorescence 6-8 cm long, bracts dense, imbricate arrangement, each bract axillary has a male flower, stamens 3-7; female inflorescence due to extremely short branches, only 1-4 pregnant bracts and spike like, 2-3.5 cm long, each bract axillary has a female flower, ovary has 2 long bright red style branches. Drupe oval, slightly compressed, red when ripe, with papillary protuberance outside. Exocarp fleshy, juicy and resinous.

Born in sunny forests on hillsides. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, sliced and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "astringent, flat. "

Functions and indications: anti inflammation, astringency, antidiarrhea, bleeding, pain relief, dysentery, enteritis, metrorrhagia, stomachache.

① "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "bark anti-inflammatory hemostasis, convergence antidiarrhea. It is used to treat blood collapse, dysentery, stomachache and gastric ulcer. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine": "root skin detumescence, blood stasis, pain, insecticidal, convergence. For dysentery, enteritis, lumbar muscle strain, sprain, eczema, alopecia, chronic sore. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: grind powder, sprinkle or boil ointment.