Jinmaoqi

Jinmaoqi

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] red cohosh and iron cohosh.

[source] it is the rhizome of astilus multiflora.

Floral astilus

Perennial herbs, more than 1 meter high, all with short glandular hairs, nearly glabrous when old. The rhizome is stout and irregular, with many fibrous roots. The basal leaves are 2-3 cycles and 3-pinnate compound leaves. The leaflets are ovate or broadly ovate, 2.4-15 cm long and 1.5-8.5 cm wide. The apex is acuminate, the base is heart-shaped, the edge is doubly serrate, and the lower part is only short hairy along the veins. Panicle 60 cm long, densely pubescent and purulent; bracts subulate, shorter than calyx; pedicel 1 mm long; flowers bisexual or unisexual, dioecious; calyx white, 1-1.8 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes narrowly ovate; petals absent; stamens 7-10; carpels 2, free. Follicles ca. 4 mm long.

Under the forest on the hillside. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu and other places.

[collection] in spring and autumn, the rhizomes were dug, the fibrous roots were removed, sliced and dried in the sun.

[flavor] it is pungent, slightly astringent and flat in nature.

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and relieving pain. Treat cold, headache, migraine.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.