Lobelia rubra

Lobelia rubra

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonyms] lobelia, Desmodium and Honglian (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), guibianbang and dabanglian (Guangzhou Air Force Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), and Lobelia Carnivora (new selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Begonia crassifolia.

[plant morphology] Begonia crassifolia

Perennial succulent herbs, 1-1.5 m high. The rhizome is hypertrophic and transverse. Stem erect, or lower part oblique, glabrous, pink, with swollen nodes. Leaves alternate, membranous, broadly ovate to oblong, asymmetric, 11-27 cm long and 3.5-10 cm wide, apex acuminate, base askew, heart-shaped, margin slightly denticulate, glabrous on both sides; petioles slender. Stipules fall early. Cyme axillary; flowers 4-6, white; male sepals 2, broadly obovate or ovoid, petals 2, broadly ovate; female sepals and petals 6, obovate, white or pink; ovary subglobose, rusty puberulent, apex contracted into a short beak, wingless. Capsule subglobose, wingless and glabrous, apex with a beak about 3 mm long and slightly thick. The flowering period is from April to May.

Born on rocks under the forest. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] new selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine: "sour and astringent, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is used to treat lower blood, sore throat, swelling and scabies.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "whole plant: detumescence, pain relief, scabies treatment. Root: treatment of warm heat disease, blood disease, sores, anemia, snakebite. "

② New selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine: "detoxification, astringency, detumescence and pain relief. Treatment of acute throat inflammation, toothache, snake bite, soup fire injury. "

③ Guangzhou Air Force "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "treatment of scabies, nameless swelling, lymphatic tuberculosis, esophageal cancer. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 5-8 yuan. External use: tamping.

Chinese PinYin : Hong Ban Bian Lian