Stoloniferous herb

Stoloniferous herb

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the root of leguminous plant hangzi shoot.

[plant morphology] Hangzhou Branch

Shrubs deciduous up to 2.5 m high. Young branches densely white pubescent. The apical leaflets are oblong or elliptic, 3-6.5 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, with rounded or slightly concave apex, short tip, round base, glabrous above, reticulate veins obvious, yellowish pilose below; lateral leaflets are smaller, stipules lanceolate. Inflorescence racemose or panicle, terminal axillary; flowers butterfly shaped, purple; calyx broadly campanulate, calyx teeth 4, puberulent; stamens 10, 2-bodied. Pods obliquely elliptic, membranous, ca. 1 cm long, reticulate. The flowering period is from April to August. The fruiting period is September.

It grows in hillside, gully, grass slope, forest edge or sparse forest. Distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Hubei, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] in summer and autumn, dig, wash, slice and dry.

[flavor] bitter, slightly pungent, flat.

[function indications] Shujin Huoxue. Treatment of numbness, hemiplegia.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; or soak in wine.