Flat bud

Flat bud

(Inner Mongolia Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Timur digeda (Mongolian name).

[source] it is the whole plant of Gentianaceae, PLATYPHYLLUM chinense.

[plant morphology] Chinese flat bud

Herbs biennial to perennial, 10-40 cm high. Branches erect or slightly purplish brown, subquadrangular. Leaves opposite, base almost connected, sessile; basal leaves spatulate or lanceolate, apex obtuse, withered early; cauline leaves lanceolate, 1.5-6 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, apex pointed, margin slightly retrorse. Flowers solitary at the top of branches, pedicel long; calyx tubular campanulate, 4-ribbed, calyx teeth 4; corolla campanulate, tube about 1.5-3 cm long, 4-lobed, blue, lilac blue or purple. Capsule fusiform cylindrical, with long stalk. The seeds are numerous.

It grows on hillside, grassland or under forest. Distributed in Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and other places.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer and dry in the shade.

Bitter, cold.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying and detumescence. Treatment of infectious fever, traumatic swelling and pain, liver and gallbladder damp heat.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo decoction, 2-3 Qian; or into pills, powder.

[selection] ① treatment of fever and headache: five coins for Bian Lei, four coins for Longgu and two coins for Cao Wu Ye. All of them are fine. Two times a day, eight to one cent each time, mint soup.

② Treatment of headache, outbreak of fire eye: flat bud, Sophora flavescens, Qu Mai, etc. The total is fine. Three times a day, one to five cents a time, slightly fried, oral.

③ Treatment of fever, headache, vomiting: flat bud, Sophora flavescens, Coptis, qingmuxiang each equal. The total is fine. Three times a day, one to five cents per serving, fried or boiled water delivery service.

Chinese PinYin : Bian Lei