Pearl style

Pearl style

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[synonym] pearl willow (herbal formula), fish roe, lacquer white (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records), carp (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources list).

[source] it is the root or branch of Verbenaceae.

[plant morphology] pearl wind

Shrubs, up to 3 m high. Young branches and branchlets are usually densely covered with tawny pubescence, stellate hairs and glandular dots, while old branches are smooth or glabrous. Leaf blade broad elliptic, elliptic ovate or elliptic lanceolate, 7-18 cm long and 2.5-8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin denticulate or denticulate, below densely covered with single and branched pubescence, stellate hair and glandular dots, upper hair sparse and single hair, lateral veins 6-9 on each side, projecting forward from main vein slightly curved. The flower is small, light red, axillary, dense cyme; calyx is short bell shaped, 4 shallow teeth, inner surface is nearly smooth and glabrous; corolla is short tubular, 4-lobed, lobes oval; stamen 4, filament is longer than corolla lobes, anther is long elliptic, connective densely glandular; pistil 1, ovary spherical, style longer than stamen. Berry shaped drupe, globose, purple when ripe, with 2-4 seeds. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows on hillside, woodland or mountain. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian and other places.

The seeds of this plant (zhenzhufengzi) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] four to five years after planting, the shoots and leaves were picked up in summer and autumn, and then the roots were dug out, dried or dried.

[nature and taste] "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "Xin, Ping. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and dredging meridians, eliminating wind and dampness. Treatment of irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, exogenous cold, rheumatic pain.

① "Cao Mu Bian Fang": dispelling wind and dampness, eliminating toxin accumulation. Treatment of blood stasis, postpartum blood gas pain. "

② "Classified herbal medicine nature": "it can treat rheumatism, numbness, muscle and bone pain, women's red collapse, leucorrhea, irregular menstruation. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can promote menstruation and blood circulation, treat irregular menstruation, asthenia, leucorrhea, postpartum blood gas pain, cold, cold and head and body pain. For external use, it can be used to treat snake erysipelas. "

④ "Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine resources list": "Ye: treatment of visceral bleeding; research end treatment of skin itching pain, insecticidal. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: grind and apply.