Limonium

Limonium

(Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual)

[source] it is the whole herb of Limonium sibiricum, which belongs to the family Paeoniaceae.

[plant morphology] Limonium sibiricum, also known as Pinus taiwanensis.

Perennial herbs, 20-40 cm high. All parts are glabrous except calyx. The roots are stout and few branched. Leaves basal, many, arranged in rosette shape; broadly elliptic to obovate, 15-25 cm long, light green or grayish green, apex obtuse, slightly round or slightly pointed, base gradually narrowed into a wide petiole; cauline leaves degenerated into scaly, brown, margin white membranous. There are many branches on the upper part of the rachis; the flowers gather into short and dense spikelets at the top of the rachis branches, and the spikelets form round shield or tower inflorescence; the spikelets usually have 2-3 flowers; the calyx tube is funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, the sepals are dry membranous, white; the petals are 5, blue purple; the stamens are 5; the pistil ovary is superior, the style is 5, and the stigma is filiform. Fruit obovate, yellowish brown.

It grows on hillside and meadow saline soil. Distribution of northeast and Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places.

[chemical constituents] the root contains myricetin, rutin, myricetin, rhamnoglucoside, myricetin, isorhamnetin, quercetin, myricetin methyl ether and tetrahydroxyflavone. It contains anthocyanin, rhamnoside and delphinidin.

[nature and taste] Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual: "stop bleeding and disperse blood stasis. Treatment of functional uterine bleeding, cervical cancer and other bleeding. "

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

Chinese PinYin : Bu Xue Cao