Double leaf lotus

Double leaf lotus

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole plant of Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] taibaimeihua

Herbs perennial, all glabrous. The rhizome is dark brown with many fibrous roots. It has 3-5 basal leaves with long stalks, expanded into sheath at the base, pinnately lobed leaflets, nearly circular outline, often imbricate overlapping, and stem leaves with sheath like short stalks. Flowers single, terminal; sepals 5, bluish purple; petals 7-13, white, nearly obovate, base with short claws, orange red; stamens many; carpels many, with an ovule. Achenes numerous, aggregate into cones.

It grows on the grass of high mountain and hillside. It is distributed in Shaanxi and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and dry in the shade.

[flavor] bitter, pungent and cool.

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. The treatment of infantile pneumonia.

[selection] treatment of infantile pneumonia: double leaf lotus two money, spring does not see a money, Taibai Coptis one money. Take it in water.