Chicken crop

Chicken crop

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonym] Wild Litchi (Atlas of higher plants in China), mountain covered basin (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Kunming).

[source] it is the leaf and fruit of the head like flower of Cornaceae.

[plant morphology] Tetrastigma capitatum

Small evergreen trees, 3-10m high. Twigs densely white pilose. Single leaf opposite, leathery or thinly leathery, oblong or oblong lanceolate, 5.5-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, entire, dark green above, grayish green below, both sides adnate with white pubescence, lateral veins 4-5 pairs, raised below the leaf, with obvious axillary at the intersection of midvein. Inflorescence subglobose, ca. 1. 2 cm in diam., with 4 yellow white petaloid involucres. Involucral bract obovate, apex pointed, 3-4 cm long, 2-3 cm wide; calyx tubular, 4-lobed, lobes round and obtuse; petals 4, yellow; stamens 4; disk cup-shaped; ovary inferior, 2-locular. The inflorescence is oblate, purplish red; the total stipe is stout, 4-7 cm long.

It grows on hillsides, ditches and shrubs. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

Bitter and smooth.

① "Kunming folk commonly used herbs": "nature is flat, taste bitter. "

② Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter, astringent, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting diuresis and killing insects. Treatment of hepatitis, ascites, ascariasis, burns.

① "Xiao Ji Da Chong" is a common folk herbal medicine in Kunming. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "water, anti-inflammatory, cholagogic, insecticidal. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat and detoxifying. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or grind powder. External use: leaf: grind powder, sprinkle or decoct and wash.

[selection] ① to treat hepatitis, ascites: one chicken crop, three to five coins, fried in water. (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Kunming) two chicken crop leaves, three to five coins, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

② Treatment of Ascaris lumbricoides: chicken crop fruit or leaf three money, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

③ Treatment of infantile malnutrition, insect accumulation: chicken crop cotyledon research powder oral, or steamed eggs to eat. (common folk herbs in Kunming)

④ Treatment of placenta: Chicken leaves three money, water decoction. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of burns and scalds: chicken crop dry leaves appropriate, powdered outside the injury. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

⑥ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: the cotyledon of chicken crop is grinded and sprinkled. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of leprosy: chicken crop cotyledon formula washing. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)