Baikema leaf

Baikema leaf

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[source] the leaves of this plant.

[plant morphology] pendulous pearl flower, also known as white flower tree.

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, about 8 m high. Twigs covered with stellate hairs, then smooth. Leaves alternate, elliptic oblong to obovate, 5-10 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, base cuneate or suborbicular, apex long pointed or short pointed, upper margin denticulate, glabrous on top, sparsely stellate hairs on bottom at early stage, then abscission; petiole short, 1-2 mm long. Raceme, with more than 10 flowers; pedicel 6-8 mm long; calyx campanulate, with irregular fine teeth, covered with stellate hairs, persistent; corolla white, 1.5 cm long, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, arranged like tweezers at the time of flower bud; style as long as corolla. Fruit ovate, about 6 mm long. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is July.

Most of them live in the mixed forest on the sunny slope of the mountain. It is distributed in Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, etc.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "cold in nature, bitter and sweet in taste. "

[function indications] Guizhou folk medicine: "Runfei Zhike". Treatment of lung dry cough. "

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