Big wupaogen

Big wupaogen

(classified herbal medicine)

[synonym] wupao (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan).

[source] it is the root or leaf of raspberry.

[plant morphology] Sichuan Raspberry

Deciduous shrubs. It is 2-5 meters high. Stem cylindrical, spinless, densely grayish brown pubescent, sometimes mixed with setae. Single leaf, nearly nursery or broadly ovate, 6-17 cm in diameter, apex acute or obtuse, base heart-shaped, margin irregularly serrated, often 5-7-lobed, rough above, gray green below, reticulate veins obvious, with short villi; petiole 5-7 cm long; stipules wider, nearly oval, base asymmetric, tip shallow, with early drop. Panicle terminal or axillary; pedicel and pedicel densely villous; flowers purple, 1-1.5 cm in diameter; calyx lobes triangular ovate, apex caudal tip, inner and outer sides hairy; petals obovate; stamens numerous. Aggregate fruit subglobose, 6-8 mm in diameter, black. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows on hillside, roadside, forest edge, forest and shrub. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei and Tibet.

[collection] roots were collected in autumn and winter, and leaves were collected in summer.

[nature and taste] Sichuan common Chinese herbal medicine: "sour, salty, flat. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood and promoting blood circulation. It is used to treat labor injury, hematemesis, hemoptysis, irregular menstruation, dysentery, scrofula and fracture.

① "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "root: dispelling wind, removing dampness, stopping vomiting, promoting blood circulation. It can be used to treat labor injury, hematemesis, irregular menstruation, fishy smell in the mouth, rash, blurred eyes after acne, and mad dog bite. Ye: for yellow water sores. "

② Guizhou medicine and plant Catalog: "whole plant: heat clearing, blood cooling, hemostasis, bone grafting. For dysentery, prolapse, amenorrhea, hemoptysis and fracture. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: decoct soup, 0.5-1 Liang; or soak wine or stew meat. External use: leaf, powder spreading.

Chinese PinYin : Da Wu Pao Gen