Kenaf

Kenaf

(Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

[source] the twigs, leaves, SAP or root bark of Broussonetia papyrifera.

[plant morphology] Broussonetia papyrifera, also known as pupan, chuoye and jianyechu.

Deciduous shrubs. Branches creeping or climbing, with milk. Leaves alternate, ovate elliptic or ovate lanceolate, 6-12 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, long pointed, base oblique, round or slightly heart-shaped, margin serrate, rarely divided, hairy on both sides, three veins; petiole 7-12 mm long. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious; the male flowers are tubular, pendulous, yellow inflorescence, perianth 4, stamen 4; the female inflorescence is capitate; the bracts are long pedunculate, discoid; the style is lateral, filiform, spiny. Figs globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., fleshy, red at maturity. The flowering period is April.

It grows in hillside shrub or secondary mixed forest. It is distributed in central and South China.

[collection] root picking in summer and autumn.

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation and diuresis. It is used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, traumatic injury, deficiency swelling and dermatitis.

"Qufeng Huoxue, detoxification and diuresis" in Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia, inguinal lymphadenitis. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of weakness and edema: one or two pieces of Goupi, Ma Nen Jian and a bowl of porridge, once a day for seven days. (Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

② Treatment of traumatic injury: Pu pan root skin, Sophora Root - two each. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

③ Treatment of localized dermatitis, psoriasis: Pu pan tree juice rub the affected area. (Jinhua, selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)

Chinese PinYin : Gou Pi Ma