Sabina chinensis Leaves

Sabina chinensis Leaves

(medicinal plants in desert areas of China)

Another name: Sabina przewalskii and Sabina przewalskii.

[source] it is the leaf of Sabina przewalskii.

[plant morphology] Sabina przewalskii

Evergreen trees, more than 10 meters high, young branches spreading or drooping, branchlets thin, very dense, nearly square, or cylindrical, diameter about 1.3 mm. Leaves scaly, closely attached to branches, often with wax powder, alternate opposite, 1-2.5 mm long, apex acute or pointed; glands round, at the base of leaf back; spiny impeller, obliquely spreading, 4-8 mm long. Cones ovoid or subglobose, 9-14 mm long, blue black or black after ripening, with one seed inside. The seeds are oblate or broadly obovate, with obvious ridges on both sides. The top is wide, round, truncated or slightly concave. There are often convex and blunt points in the center, and shallow and irregular resin grooves on the surface.

He was born in the mountains. It is distributed in Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, raw or fried.

[flavor] bitter and astringent, slightly cold.

[function indications] hemostasis, antitussive.

[selection] ① treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia and uterine bleeding: two to four coins of Sabina vulgaris leaves, fried with charcoal and water.

② Treatment of epistaxis: one or two Sabina leaves, fried, fried, twice a day.

③ Treatment of pertussis: Sabina leaves five money, fried, twice a day. (nature and taste are listed in medicinal plants in desert areas of China)