Goldilocks

Goldilocks

(collection of compendium)

[synonyms] cuilingcao (Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs), Luosong (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), nuluo (Hanying Yunfu), Jinping Feng (flora of Guangzhou), jinsixian (list of medicinal plants in Guangxi).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of the family Convolvulaceae.

[plant morphology] pineapple

Annual weak twining herbs, bald and glabrous, up to 4 meters long. The outline of the leaf is ovate, 4-7 cm long, pinnately divided into many linear discrete lobes; there are two stipules in the same shape as the leaf. Cymes axillary, with several flowers, usually longer than leaves; flowers erect; sepals 5, green, elliptic, ca. 5 mm long, apex obtuse and cuspidate; corolla dark red (also white varieties), high pedunculate discoid, 2.5 cm or more long, tube weak, upper part slightly inflated, short 5-lobed; stamens 5; ovary 4-locular, stigma capitate. Capsule, ovate, 7-8 mm long. The flowering period is from spring to autumn.

It is cultivated in many places.

[functions and indications] 1. In Gangmu Shiyi, it is used to treat ear rash and hemorrhoids. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "antipyretic. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan. External use: daub with mashed juice or wash with fried water.