Wild bitter pear root

Wild bitter pear root

(Guizhou folk medicine)

The roots of Rosaceae are cotyledons.

[plant morphology] pachyhylla

Semi evergreen shrubs. Branchlets with yellowish gray flat soft tomentose when young. Single leaf alternate, leathery, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex short acuminate, with small protuberance, base cuneate, entire, densely yellow white soft hairs below, petiole about 4 mm long. Compound corymb terminal on lateral branches, flowers small, pedicel densely attached tomentose; calyx 5-lobed, densely attached tomentose; petals 5, broadly obovate, reddish purple; stamens numerous; ovary inferior, stigma 2. The pear is reddish brown.

Born in the shade of the mountains. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest after autumn

Bitter, cool and nontoxic.

[function indications] detumescence, detoxification.

[selected formula] treatment of redness, swelling and maliciousness: root bark of fresh wild bitter pear, mash the affected part, all the parts are covered if they are not broken, and the head is left if they have broken.