Jasminum indicum

Jasminum indicum

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] flower of chicken claw and flower of vegetable pan (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass and flower of osmanthaceae.

[plant morphology] Jasminum multiflorum

Climbing shrubs. Young branches cylindrical. Leaflets ovate lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, entire, with 3 veins. The cyme apex is axillary, with many flowers arranged in panicles; the flowers are light red and fragrant; the pedicel is 2-2.5 cm long; the bracts are 1-lanceolate; the calyx is tubular, and the sepals are 5-linear; the Corolla is white or light red, high footed and discoid, and the tube is 2-3 cm long; the petals are 5-oval. The berries are usually geminate, solitary, dark purple, with persistent calyx at the base. It blooms in summer.

It grows in the hillside shrub and the edge of valley, or near the village. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] the whole grass can be harvested all year round, and flowers can be harvested in summer.

[nature and taste] 1. Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "light, cool. "

② "Kunming folk commonly used herbs" says: "the nature is flat, bitter and slightly pungent. "

[functions and indications] 1. Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat and eliminating inflammation. Treatment of orchitis, lymph node tuberculosis. "

② "Common folk herbs in Kunming": "promoting blood circulation, promoting qi and relieving pain. It is used to treat fullness of chest diaphragm, stomachache, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and leucorrhea. To cure the wound of knife, it should be rammed and applied externally together with roentgenol. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.