Sarcandra glabra

Chinese Name: Sarcandra glabra

[category]: whole grass

English Name: glabrous sarcandra herb

[alias]: jiujiecha, jiujiefeng, jiegulian.

[source]: it is the whole plant of Sarcandra glabra (Thunb.) Nakai.

[picking and processing]: digging in summer and autumn, removing impurities and drying in the sun.

[flavor]: mild in nature, bitter and pungent in taste.

[plant morphology]: perennial evergreen herbs or subshrubs, up to 2m in height. The rhizome is thick with many and slender branches. Stem erect, multi branched, nodes swollen. Leaves opposite, nearly leathery, oblong or ovate lanceolate, 6-18cm long, 2-7cm wide, margin coarsely serrated, tooth tip glandular; petiole about 1cm long, base united into sheath; stipules minute. It has 1-3 spikes, 1-3 stem apex; bracts ovate triangle; flowers small, no perianth, yellow green, fragrant; stamens 1, white, rod-shaped, anthers 2-locular; pistils globose, ovary inferior, stigma subcapillary. Drupe globose, bright red. The flowering period is from June to July and the fruiting period is from August to September.

[growing place]: it is distributed in East China, Central South China and southwest China.

[chemical composition]: it contains volatile oil, esters, phenols, tannins, flavonoids, cyanosides, coumarins and lactones.

[function indications]: antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, Qufeng Tongluo, Huoxue Sanjie. For pneumonia, appendicitis, cellulitis, rheumatic arthralgia, falling injury, tumor.