Flowers

Flowers

(a textual research on the names and facts of plants)

[synonyms] Zhimo flower, Jiji, baiqingming flower, tuihua.

[source] it is the flower of Hamamelidaceae.

[plant morphology]? Flower, also known as? Wood, shanqichai, tieshuzi, Shanmu, daoyanmu, sawblade, yangyongshu, shanshuchai.

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, about 1-4 meters high. The bark is dark gray; the twigs, new leaves, inflorescence, calyx back and fruit are light brown yellow stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate elliptic, 1.5-6 cm long, 8-20 mm wide, apex mucronate, base obtuse, asymmetric, entire, leathery; petiole 2-9 mm long. The flower has 6-8 clustered branches; sessile; calyx short, 4-lobed; petals 4, yellowish white, striped; stamens 4, filaments very short, anther lobes involute, connectives protruding into spines; pistils obovate, ovary half inferior, 2-locular, stigma 2, with hairy protuberances. Capsule globose, ca. 7 mm in diam., brown, loculicidal; seeds elliptic white. The flowering period is May. The fruiting period is October.

Born in low forest on hillside. It is distributed in Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, etc.

The roots (flower roots) and stems and leaves (flower leaves) of this plant are also used for medicine.

[collection] harvest in summer.

[chemical constituents] the content of quercetin and isoquercetin in flowers was 0.156% and 0.321%, respectively.

[nature and taste] Mindong materia medica: "the nature is flat, the taste is slightly sweet and astringent. "

[Guijing] Mindong materia medica: "entering lung, spleen, stomach and large intestine four meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, relieving fever, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. Treatment of cough, hemoptysis, spermatorrhea, thirst, epistaxis, dysentery, diarrhea, women's HAEMORRHEA.

① "Treating epistaxis" in Jiangxi folk herbal medicine. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "clearing heat, relieving fever, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. It can cure dry cough, hemoptysis, thirst, dysentery and diarrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-4 preserves.

[selection] 1. Treatment of epistaxis: it costs four yuan to take it in water. (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

② Cure dysentery: spend three money, Drynaria three money, Schizonepeta tenuifolia one money five points, green wood incense two money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of blood avalanche: stew pork for four yuan, take several times a day. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

④ Treatment of spermatorrhea: wood costs four yuan, pig meat four Liang. Stew in water, take soup and meat, one dose a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)