Wild brown

Wild brown

(selected Chinese herbal medicine of Yunnan ensmao)

[synonym] mountain palm.

[source] it is the root of Sinomenium bicolor.

[plant morphology] double seed vine, also known as Gemini brown.

Shrubby, stem brown. Leaves large, terminal, unequally pinnately divided, leaflets few, rhombic, grayish white below, margin erosive, veins fan-shaped. The fleshy inflorescence is extracted from the foliage, with many spathes, unisexual flowers, slightly larger and yellow; the male flower has cup-shaped calyx, 3-lobed petals, leathery petals and stamens of 10-30; the female flower is nearly spherical, sepals are round, petals are thick, triangular, ovary of 2-3-locular. The fruit is spherical.

It grows under the hillside forest or near the bamboo forest. Distributed in Yunnan and other places

[collection] all year round. Peel, slice and dry.

[flavor] sour and astringent, cool.

[function indications] hemostasis, heat clearing and convergence. Treatment of menorrhagia, HAEMORRHEA, uterine prolapse, tuberculosis hemoptysis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

[selected formula] for treatment of blood avalanche: wild palm with Rubia cordifolia and stir fried wormwood leaf decoction.