Gynura rigida

Gynura rigida

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

It is a traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of pomegranate.

[source] it is the whole plant of Gynura rigida.

[plant morphology] Gynura rigida

Annual herb, 50-100 cm high. Stems clustered, often unbranched or 2-3-branched, erect, stout, purplish at nodes and lower parts. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to oblong, sometimes ovate lanceolate, 3-10 cm long or longer, 8-25 mm wide or wider. Inflorescence racemose in the upper part of the branch, forming clusters in the leaf limb pairs; pedicels of different lengths, pubescent; calyx tubular, with 10 veins outside, glabrous; petals 5, white, slightly longer than calyx, apex 2-lobed, base gradually narrowed into claws, throat with 2 scales; stamens 10; ovary oblong, style 3. Capsule long ovate, slightly longer than calyx. Seeds reniform, brown.

It grows in hillside, valley, shrub or grass on plateau hillside. It is distributed in North China, Northeast China, Zhejiang and Sichuan.

[collection] collected from July to August, cut into sections and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "sweet, light, cool. "

[Guijing] Manual of plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment: "into the small intestine, gallbladder and bladder meridian. "

[functions and indications] ① identification of main wild medicinal plants in Heilongjiang Province and new preparations of Chinese herbal medicine: "promoting lactation and regulating menstruation. "

② "Plateau Chinese herbal medicine treatment manual": "heat clearing and detoxification, dehumidification and diuresis. For sore throat. tympanitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-4 yuan.