Elderberry 1

Elderberry 1

(drug records of Nanning City)

[synonym] Red Hen medicine (Nanning medicine records), red feather hen and zhuangyangcao (Guangxi medicine plant list).

[source] the branches and leaves of leguminous plant gymnosperms.

[plant morphology] wucao (Youyang Zazu)

Small shrubs, up to 1.5 m high. Stem terete, longitudinally sulcate, glabrous. Leaves alternate, pinnate compound, 1-3 leaflets; terminal leaflets rectangular or lanceolate, 5.5-10 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, apex rounded or obtuse, with short tip, glabrous on top, close pubescence on bottom; lateral leaflets very small, rectangular to linear, sometimes absent; petiole 1.1-2 cm long. Terminal inflorescence paniculate, 24 cm long, axillary racemose; bracts dense, broadly ovate, ca. 6 mm, glabrescent; flowers purplish red, ca. 7.5 mm; sepals 5, ca. 1.5 mm, calyx teeth short; corolla butterfly, keel spurred. Pods falcate or straight, 5-9 nodes. It blooms in autumn.

It grows in hills, hillsides or small thickets. Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical composition] it contains trans crocetin dimethyl ester.

Bitter and smooth.

Functions and indications: remove blood stasis and generate new, relax muscles and activate collaterals. It can strengthen muscles and bones and treat rheumatism and bone pain. Ye Zhi is a Dieda, a bone graft.

[usage and dosage] oral: 1.5-3 yuan.

[should not] pregnant women should not use it. (the nature and taste are listed in the drug records of Nanning City)