Fruit Root on leaf

Fruit Root on leaf

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[source] it is the root of Tilia amurensis.

[plant morphology] Tilia amurensis, also known as Qingke Lang and jiahe'er.

Deciduous trees, about 15 m high. The bark is gray, rough and cracked. Leaves alternate, membranous, obliquely ovate, 7-10 cm long, 6-7 cm wide, base very oblique, truncate or subcordate, apex slender acuminate, margin sparsely spiny dentate, usually entire below middle, glabrous above, sparsely stellate pilose below, often glabrescent, vein axils tufted; petiole about 3 cm long. Cyme axillary, long peduncle; bracts oblong, membranous, the total pedicel and bracts healed to the upper part of bracts; calyx and petals are 5, stamens 25-30, with staminode 5, petaloid; ovary by white stellate hairs. Nuts globose, ca. 8 mm in diam., with glandular processes and stellate hairs on the surface. The flowering period is July and the fruiting period is October.

In broad-leaved mixed forest on valley or hillside. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, etc.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the taste is slightly bitter and the nature is warm. "

[functions and indications] ① Guizhou folk medicine: "dispelling wind and promoting blood circulation. Treatment of traumatic injuries. "

② "Guizhou medicine plant catalog": "dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation, analgesia. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism and numbness. "

[selected formula] treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism and numbness: two liang fruit roots on the leaves, take them with wine or rub them on the pain. (Guizhou folk medicine)