Gold belt

Gold belt

(Hunan medical records)

[source] it is the flower, root and stem bark of Daphne lappa.

[plant morphology] Hedysarum nutans, also known as Hedysarum gracile, Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium hirsutum and wild hemp.

Small shrubs, 1-2m high. Bark rough, branchlets thin, scattered, reddish brown, glabrous. Leaves opposite, membranous to papery, ovate or ovate elliptic to ovate lanceolate, 2.5-8.5 cm long and 1.5-2.5 (~ 4) cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate or suborbicular, dark green above, glabrous below, pale green below, powdery, veins raised below, conspicuous; petiole 0.1-0.2 cm long. The flowers are yellowish green, with 4-8 flowers forming a terminal raceme near the head. The total pedicel is very slender, pendulous, glabrous, 5-15mm long; perianth is tubular, 12-13MM long; glabrous, lobes 4, obtuse; stamens 8, 2-whorled; disk is deeply divided into 4 square scales; ovary obovate, glabrous. Fruit oval, dark red when ripe.

Wild in open forest or shrub. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian and Taiwan.

[collection] the flowers are harvested when they are open, and the root and stem bark can be harvested all year round.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

[function indications] it can eliminate hardness and blood stasis, stop bleeding and relieve pain.

[formula selection] 1. The first treatment of scrofula: the second skin of scrofula pendula and brown sugar were mashed and applied externally.

② Treatment of traumatic injury: it costs five yuan for Chuichui, three yuan for angelica, fried in water and served in wine.