Wild Peucedanum

Wild Peucedanum

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

A thousand years old rat shit.

[source] it is the root or whole grass of Aquilegia inermis, a Ranunculaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Aquilegia inermis

Perennial herbs. The taproot is thick and long, and the skin is dark brown. Stem 20-60 cm high, sparsely pubescent, often branched. The basal leaves have long petioles, 2-fold and 3-out compound leaves, the leaflets are obovate, fan-shaped or ovate, 3-lobed, the lobes have round teeth, glabrous on the top, sparsely pilose or glabrous on the bottom; the stem leaves are smaller. Inflorescence with 2-6 flowers; pedicel 6 cm long, pubescent; flower diameter 1.5-2.8 cm; sepals 5, dark purple, nearly horizontally expanded, ovate or elliptic, 1-1.4 cm long; petals of the same color as sepals, apex truncate, without spur; stamens many, medicine dark green, staminode lanceolate; carpels 4-5, ovary superior. Follicles 8-11 mm long, erect, hairy, dehiscent at maturity.

It grows on the edge of mountain forest with an altitude of 1800-3500 meters. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai.

[collection] harvest after autumn.

[nature and taste] it is flat in nature and sweet in taste.

[function indications] Shengji Jiedu.

[prescription selection] 1. Treat yellow water sores for a long time without closing the mouth: divide the root of Peucedanum praeruptorum, the leaf of millet bubble, and the leaf of Lang Dou Chai into equal parts, dry in the sun as the end, and apply vegetable oil.

② Treatment of ulcers: appropriate amount of wild Peucedanum, mashed with sweet wine, applied to the affected area.