Spring flowers and trees

Spring flowers and trees

(Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

[source] it is the branch, leaf or root of Rosaceae.

[plant morphology] lunlunmei, also known as Chunhua, grouper, Leigong, Goujiao, tielimu, Shigui.

Erect shrub, nearly bald, 1-4 m high. Leaf blade from ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 4-7 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, apex short acuminate or slightly obtuse, base narrowly short petiole, both sides bare and bright, margin serrate; Stipule conic tip, 3-4 mm long, falling off. Flowers white and pink, ca. 1 cm in diameter, terminal, slightly dense corymb or panicle, ca. 5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles membranous, narrowly lanceolate, long pointed; calyx tube glabrous or tomentose, glabrous when bearing, lobes 5, lanceolate, 6-8 mm long; petals 5, ca. as long as sepals: stamens 15-20; ovary inferior, 2-locular. Fruit globose, unequal in size, usually about 6 mm in diameter, apical crown with base of calyx limb forming a ring. The flowering period is spring and summer. The fruit period is from October to November.

Born in the mountain forest in the bush near the ring stream. It is distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical composition] bark contains tannin.

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "cold in nature, slightly bitter and astringent. "

[function indications] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "Ye: anti inflammation and anti-corruption. Treatment of ulcer swelling, fried and washed. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: dry root of grouper, Sanjiao, decocted with water, or smashed with leaves for external application. (records of medicinal plants of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province)

② Treatment of foot and ankle pain: grouper root 3 jin, sliced, plus Sichuan Niuxi 42, with 10 jin of Shaojiu, soak for a month after the lake dregs take wine, daily morning and evening before meals according to the amount of wine. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

Chinese PinYin : Chun Hua Mu