Chandelier flower
(Guizhou herbal medicine)
[synonym] Gosling intestine (Guizhou herbal medicine).
[source] it is the whole plant of Asclepiadaceae.
[plant morphology] Dioscorea breviflora
Twining vines. The stem is thin, about 2 meters long. Leaves opposite; petiolate; leaf blade ovate, 4-5 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded, entire, sparsely pubescent above, margin dense. Cyme axillary; calyx small, glandular, 5-lobed; corolla tubular, green, purple spot, base expanded spherical, apex 5-lobed and compound. Follicles lanceolate.
It is found in wet places or crevices by the river.
[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.
[nature and taste] Guizhou herbal medicine: "sour, flat. "
[function indications] for swelling, toxin and fracture.
① Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing heat and detoxifying. Treatment of unknown swelling and toxin, fracture. "
② "Guizhou medicine and plant catalog": "nourishing, treating weakness. "
[formula selection] ① treatment of unknown swelling toxin: appropriate amount of goose intestine and fish loach string. Pound down the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine)
② Treatment of fracture: Gosling intestine, Arnebia, see blood fly each equal amount. Pound down the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine)
Chinese PinYin : Diao Deng Hua
Chandelier flower
Small grass with bottle ears. Ping Er Xiao Cao