Yebazi

Yebazi

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] bengchuang medicine (Guangxi medicine plant list), gouweixiang, xiangzhihao, Mosla rugosa (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection).

[source] it is the whole plant of Elsholtzia tenuifolia.

[plant morphology] Elsholtzia tenuifolia

Erect shrub, 0.5-1.5m high. The stem is grayish brown, with irregular cracks on the outer skin, many branches, branches ascending, branches yellowish brown, with fine stripes, with pink white pubescence. Single leaf opposite; long petiole; elliptic or rhomboid elliptic, 1-3 cm long, 0.6-2 cm wide, apex acute, base broadly cuneate, upper green, wrinkled, lower white green, densely flat white pubescent. Flowers pale purple or white, small, closely arranged in terminal pseudospikes. Nutlets ovoid, not more than 1 mm long. It blooms in summer.

Born in wasteland, sunny hillside and forest. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi.

[collection] autumn collection. Dry in the shade.

[nature and taste] selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "pungent, cool. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the catalogue of Guangxi medicinal plants, it is used to treat ulcers. "

② "Clearing away heat and toxic substances, eliminating food and resolving accumulation" is one of the main contents of selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines. Treatment of cold, indigestion, abdominal pain, abdominal distension. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.