Platinum ancient olive

Platinum ancient olive

(Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] baijieshu, qianjinshu, Jinshu, jinyindai (Guangxi medical plant directory).

[source] it is the tuberous root of three canals.

[plant morphology] three tube, also known as Sinomenium.

Climbing vines perennial. The root tubers are spherical or long columnar in shape, connected with each other, and the inlay is gray white. The stem is rusty and coarsely hairy, falling off when old. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or linear lanceolate, 9-20 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cordate, below pink green, pubescent; petiole short, densely rusty, hairy or bald. Flowers dark purple, solitary in leaf axils. Capsule. It blooms in spring.

Born in deep mountain forest. It is distributed in Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] collected in summer, washed, sliced and dried.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter in taste, cold in nature. "

[functions and indications] ① Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, treating bacillary dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, sore swelling and pain. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treatment of snakebite, scabies. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boil soup, 3-5 yuan.