Impatiens balsamina

Impatiens balsamina

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[synonym] false Impatiens and false henna (Luchuan materia medica).

[source] the whole plant of Impatiens balsamifera.

[plant morphology] Impatiens balsamina

Herbs perennial, ca. 60 cm tall. The roots are well developed, fleshy, rhizome like, or round or oval tuberous roots. Stem fleshy, nodes swollen, branched, green with purplish red, hairy. Leaves alternate, ovate, ovate elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 6-16 cm long, apex pointed, base rounded, decurrent, margin serrate, teeth with very fine linear lobes. Inflorescence racemose, axillary; pedicel base with 1 oblique ovate bract; sepal 3, middle 1 lower, saccate, extra large, extending backward to form curving, yellow, small on both sides, green; petal 5, yellow, upper 1 petal erect, 2 petals on each side healed into 1; stamen 5, filaments white, anthers healed around the top of pistil; pistil 1, ovary long cylindrical, 5-locular. Capsule, horny, long fusiform. The flowering period is from June to July.

It grows in mountain forest, water depression and wet place near flowing water. It is distributed in the northeast and southwest of China.

The tuberous root of this plant (bawangqi) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Bi: "cold in nature, bitter in taste. "

[function indications] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "cool, detoxify and remove corruption. It can cure ulcers. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping or boiling.