Caulis Hedysarum

Caulis Hedysarum

(Jinhua, selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)

[synonym] Pterocarpus equisetifolius (records of medicinal plants of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province), Pterocarpus acutissima and Pterocarpus formosana (selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines) and soybean tree (Atlas of Chinese higher plants).

[source] it is the root or stem leaf of Acer truncatum.

[plant morphology] Acer truncatum

Shrubs or trees, sometimes Liana like, up to 13-19 m long. Branchlets stellate pilose. Leaves alternate, long petiolate, triangular ovate, 9-15 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or truncated or shallowly cordate, entire or undulate, glabrous or stellate above, densely stellate below. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male inflorescences spicate, single or branched, male flowers clustered, calyx 3-lobed, densely covered with yellow hairs, stamens extremely numerous; female inflorescences terminal or axillary, female flowers solitary in bract axillary, calyx 3-lobed, ovary 3-locular. Capsule globose, rusty tomentose. Seeds hemispherical, black, glossy. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from August to September.

Born on the hillside bare rock or stone, often edge stone creeping, like calcareous soil. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Fushu, Taiwan, Guangdong and other places.

[functions and indications] Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "dispelling wind. Treatment of snake bite, rheumatic arthralgia, chronic ulcer. "

[selected prescription] for joint pain: three to five coins each for the branches and leaves of Rhizoma Periplocae, Cortex Acanthopanacis and Rhizoma digitalis, take them in water. (records of TIANRI yam in Zhejiang)

Chinese PinYin : Gang Xiang Teng