Pseudoaquilegia

Pseudoaquilegia

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] pseudoaquilegia microphylla (selected Chinese herbal medicine from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai), and its leaf spear opposite hook (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the leaf of Ranunculus pseudoaquilegia.

[plant morphology] pseudoaquilegia

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is long, and the upper part is densely clumped with persistent petioles. The leaves are mostly basal, 2-whorled and 3-compound, glabrous; the leaflets are deeply lobed, and the lobules are oblate; the petiole is 2.5-11 cm long, and the flower stem is 3-18 cm high; the bract is 2, lanceolate, 0.3-3.3 cm below the flower; the flower is single terminal, 2.8-5 cm in diameter; the sepal is 5, Violine or light purplish red, obovate, 1.4-2.5 cm long; the petal is 5, yellow, narrowly obovate, about 5 mm long M; stamens numerous; staminodes absent; carpels 5-7. Follicles erect, 0.9-1.2 cm long, reticulate veined.

Most of them grow on the stony slopes or cliffs of high mountains. Distributed in Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and other places.

[collection] harvest from August to September.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "cold in nature, bitter and astringent in taste. "

[functions and indications] ① common Tibetan herbal medicine: "removing blood stasis, hemostasis and analgesia. For lower stillbirth, uterine bleeding. "

① Selected Chinese herbal medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. Treatment of traumatic injury, removal of foreign bodies, traumatic bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan. External use: grind and sprinkle.