Schisandra chinensis

Mountain (commonly used folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] Laomi wine (commonly used folk herbs in Kunming), lengfanzi (contents of medicinal sandalwood in Guizhou).

[source] roots, leaves, fruits and bark of loniceraceae.

[plant morphology] Schisandra chinensis

Shrub, 1-2.5m high. Stem erect, brownish red, branchlets numerous, coarsely hairy, old gradually glabrous, with suborbicular lenticels. Single leaf opposite, closely arranged; obovate, 12-21 mm long, 9-15 mm wide, apex obtuse or slightly pointed, base cuneate, leaf margin with shallow undulate obtuse teeth, veins protruding below, hairy; petiole 3-6 mm long. Cymes arranged in panicles; flowers white, pedicels less than 3 mm long; corolla tubular, apex 5-lobed, lobes obtuse; stamens 5-lobed. Drupe red. Hot shield dark, elliptic, ca. 5. 4 mm long. One seed, oblong, 5-ribbed, often adherent to pulp. It blooms in summer.

It grows in the thickets of mountains and hillsides, forest margins and roadsides. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places,

[collection] the fruits are harvested in autumn; the roots, leaves and trees can be harvested all year round and dried in the sun. After removing the fibrous roots, wash, slice and dry.

[nature and taste] common folk herbs in Kunming: "sour, slightly sweet, flat. "

[functions and indications] ① common folk herbs in Kunming: "clearing away heat, relieving exterior symptoms and relieving cough. Treat headache and pain all over the body. "

② Guizhou medicine and plant Catalogue: "clearing heat and cooling blood, dispersing wind and relieving cough. It is used to treat wound of wind and heat, cough and bleeding. "

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

[selection] treatment of heat cough: after dissolving, put Schisandra (grind powder) into the mixture and eat it. (common folk herbs in Kunming)