Chicken feet?

Chicken feet?

(drug records of Nanning City)

[synonym] Jichui (flora of Guangzhou), tangjiaoyu (flora of Nanning).

[source] it is the whole plant of Rubiaceae.

[plant morphology] chicken feet?

Erect spiny shrub, 2-5M high. Young branches often hairy; spines opposite, in leaf axils, stout and straight, 5-15 mm long. Single leaf opposite, oblong, sometimes ovate, 4-10 cm long, 1.8-4 cm wide, apex short pointed or obtuse, base rounded, margin entire, above bare, below pubescent or along veins with sparse hirsute, papery; Stipule base broad, apex conical, 3-5 mm long, hirsute. Cyme terminal; calyx campanulate, ca. 2.5 mm long, coarsely hairy; corolla white, high pedunculate, outside bald, tube weak, 1.2-2 cm long, lobes oblong to lanceolate, 4-8 mm long. Berry globose, ca. 10 mm in diam., glabrous, apex with a ring scar of calyx. The flowering period is autumn and winter.

Born near the village or garden. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, sliced and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] "slightly bitter, sweet and astringent. "

Functions and indications: in Nanning medical records: "removing blood stasis to produce new, astringent. Cure dysentery. Tamping ulcers and bruises. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.