Dogtail flower

Dogtail flower

(drug records of Nanning City)

[synonym] pseudopeanuts with fine leaves (Nanning medicinal records), green leaves (Minnan folk herbal medicine), milkweed, Chinese butterfly grass, shandaogen, and mucandidou (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant of the leguminous plant pseudodesmodium vulgare.

[plant morphology] pseudophaseolus vulgaris, also known as mung bean and barnyard bean.

Small shrubs or subshrubs. Stem erect or nearly erect, 30-90 cm high, somewhat close to pilose. Compound leaves alternate; leaflets 3, nearly leathery, apex 1, obovate oblong to ovate elliptic, 2.5-7 cm long, lateral leaflets smaller, apex obtuse, base rounded, entire, glabrous above, thinly covered with close sparse hairs below; stipules lanceolate. Raceme terminal and lateral, dense, 2.5-7 cm long; bracts ovate lanceolate. Corolla purplish red, flag petal broad, wing petal more or less attached to obtuse Yougu petal; stamen 10, 2-body; ovary superior, style curved. The pods are flat and dense with 4-8 pods. The flowering period is from June to September.

Born on hillside, grassland and roadside. Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places.

[nature and taste] 1. Nanning medical records: "sweet and astringent, flat. "

② "Minnan folk herbal medicine": "sweet slightly bitter, flat. "

[functions and indications] 1. According to Nanning medical records, "root: Invigorating the stomach, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough; treating deficiency cold cough and infantile malnutrition. Leaf: with vinegar mash external application, treatment of acne and buried mouth muscle. "

② "Minnan herbal medicine: clearing away pathogenic factors, eliminating inflammation". To treat epidemic encephalitis B and mumps. "

③ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "whole plant: clearing heat, refuting bone. It's a cure for injuries. "

Usage: Decoction and dosage: 2 ～ 5. External use: tamping.

Chinese PinYin : Gou Wei Hua