Pseudojute

Pseudojute

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] pseudoephedra region (essential preparation of raw herbs), sweet Ephedra (flora of Guangzhou).

[source] the whole plant of pseudojute in Tiliaceae.

Pseudojute

Annual subshrub like herbs, up to 1 m high. The stem is reddish brown and slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate lanceolate, 2-5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, apex obtuse or apiculate, base rounded, often with 2 short tails, margin serrate, glabrous or sparsely pilose; lower leaves smaller, rounded; petiole 1-2 cm long, pilose; stipules linear conic. The flower is small, yellow, 1-4 gather on total pedicel: pedicel is short, have link; sepal and petal are 4 or 5; stamen is most. Capsule cylindric, 1.8-3 cm long. It has 6-8 edges, 3-4 of which have wings and 3-4 beak like protuberances at the top. The seeds are small. The flowering period is July. The fruiting period is September.

Roadside, grassland, open field, hillside, forest edge and ridge. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Taiwan.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn and dry in the sun.

The stem is about 3-6 mm thick and brown. The surface of the stem is usually prismatic and sunken with mesh. The skin is thin and strong fibrous, which is hard to break. The leaves are shriveled, yellow and easy to fall off. Capsule most dehiscence, exterior tan. It is better to dry the whole plant with leaves.

Produced in Guangdong and Guangxi.

[chemical constituents] phloretin was isolated from the whole herb.

[nature and taste] "preparation of raw herbal medicine:" it is light in taste and cold in nature. "

[function indications] clearing away heat and toxin. For measles, fever, scabies and swelling.

① It can also relieve heat, apply sores, disperse poison, detumescence and stop bleeding. "

② According to Lingnan caiyao Lu, "treating typhoid fever and dysentery by mistake; washing scabies and scabies with boiling water.". "

③ Flora of Guangzhou: "tender leaves, used as vegetable soup, have the function of cooling and relieving summer heat; and yellow sugar mashed and applied on sores have the effect of detoxification. "

④ "Treatment of Dieda" in the book of wild medicinal plants. "

⑤ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "leaf, cool detoxification. It can cure the pain of muscles and bones. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: fried, washed or tamped.