Stauntonia

Stauntonia

(Ningxia Chinese herbal medicine manual)

[source] it is the fruit of Quercus liaotungensis.

[plant morphology] Quercus liaotungensis, also known as chaishu, Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Cyclobalanopsis glauca.

Deciduous trees, 5-10 cm high. Bark dark brown; young branches glabrous, grayish green. Single leaf alternate, obovate to elliptic obovate, 5-17 cm long, 2.5-10 cm wide, apex obtuse, base auricular or round, margin with 5-7 pairs of wavy teeth, hairy along veins when young, glabrous when old, 5-7 pairs of lateral veins; petiole 2-4 mm long. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers in soft yellow inflorescence, born in leaf axils; female flowers usually 3 gather to form single leaf axils, cupule shallow Huai shaped, surrounding nut about 1 / 3, diameter 1.2-1.5 cm, height about 8 mm; bracts small, ovate, flat: nut ovate to long ovate, diameter 1-1.3 cm, length 1.7-1.9 cm, glabrous; hilum slightly protruding.

Born in hillside forest. Distributed in Ningxia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places.

The bark and root bark (Quercus liaotungensis) and the involucre outside the fruit (Quercus liaotungensis) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[taste] bitter, slightly warm.

Functions and indications: invigorate the spleen, stop diarrhea, and stop bleeding. Treatment of spleen deficiency diarrhea, hemorrhoids bleeding, anal prolapse.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo Weisan, 2-3 yuan.

[selected formula] for diarrhea, hemorrhoids and prolapse: three liang of Gangmu, stir fried and ground. Four for each, three times a day.

Chinese PinYin : Gang Mu