Wild Litchi

Wild Litchi

(Honghe Chinese herbal medicine)

Synonym: four bright flowers with pointed leaves.

[source] it is the flower and leaf of Tetrastigma angustifolia.

[plant morphology] narrow leaf sizhao flower

Small evergreen trees or shrubs. Branches thin, sparse yellow hairs when tender. Single leaf opposite, leathery; leaf blade long elliptic or ovate elliptic, 7-12 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, entire, pubescent when tender above, glabrescent later, densely covered with white pubescence below, 3-4 pairs of lateral veins; petiole pubescent when tender. Inflorescence subglobose; involucral bracts 4, white, ovate, 2.5-3.5 cm long, 1-2.2 cm wide; calyx tubular, 4-lobed, coarsely hairy; petals 4, yellow; stamens 4; ovary inferior. Drupe many, integrated with succulent spherical aggregate fruit, red purple.

Born in the forest on the hillside. It is distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, etc.

It is astringent and smooth.

[function indications] astringent hemostasis.

[selection] ① treatment of traumatic bleeding: fresh wild litchi leaf tamping, or dry leaf and Huayan powder external application.

② Treatment of dysentery: dry Wild Litchi flowers, leaves three to five money, water decoction service.

③ Fracture treatment: fresh wild litchi flowers, leaves with vine eucommia, big Jiegudan, etc., tamping.