Pregnancy

Pregnancy

(Tang materia medica)

[synonym]? MI, Qiatan (Lu Ji's Shi Shu), Yi Xian (Tang Ben Cao), and child fist (salvation Ben Cao).

[source] stems and leaves of pods of loniceraceae.

Podpregnancy

Deciduous shrub, up to 3 m high. Stem erect, brown, multi branched, winter buds with 2 scales, shoots with stellate hairs. Single leaf opposite, membranous, leaf blade round to broadly ovate or even oblong, 6-8 cm long, 5 cm wide, apex pointed to short acuminate, base round to nearly heart-shaped, leaf margin triangular serrate; above with sparse hairs, below with stellate hairs and yellow scalelike glandular dots; leaves feathery, 5-8 pairs, straight to leaf margin; no stipules. Cymes many flowered, 8-12 cm in diameter, stellate hairy; calyx tube short, 5-toothed, persistent; corolla lobes 5, hairy; stamens 5, longer than corolla, anther separated, 2-locular; style short, stigma pointed, 3-lobed; ovary inferior. Berry shaped drupe, broadly ovoid, dark red, glabrous. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from September to October.

Growing in shrubs in mountainous or hilly areas. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian and other places.

The fruit of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer.

[nature and taste] Tang materia medica: "sweet and bitter, flat, non-toxic. "

[function indications] for infantile malnutrition.

Tang materia medica: "master the three insects, lower the Qi and eliminate the valley. Cook branch juice and porridge to feed children and kill Ascaris. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.

[selected formula] for infantile malnutrition: one to two pairs of leaves and stems of pods, five to one or two pairs of Gorgon seeds. Drink water, fry for three hours, add some sugar, eat Euryale and soup. You can take it regularly. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)