Tiger bubble

Tiger bubble

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan)

[synonym] laoxiongpao (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan), niumaowang, dongdongpao and red towel (Guizhou medicine and plant catalogue).

[source] it is the root and leaf of Rubus Rubus.

[plant morphology] Rubus Rubus, also known as Rubus chuanqianensis.

Deciduous vine shrubs, up to 3 meters. The stem is stout, reddish brown, with edges, dense reddish brown setae and sparse prickles. 3-compound leaves; leaflets broadly ovate, obovate or elliptic, 3-8 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide, terminal leaflets 13 cm long, apex pointed, base rounded, margin irregularly serrated, adaxially purplish green, glabrous, below scattered pilose, along the vein sparsely prickles and soft hairs; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long, and leaf axis densely bristles and a few prickles; stipules filiform, lower part smooth The upper part is linear and apex is pointed. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary and lateral; pedicels short; flowers white, about 1.5 cm in diameter, calyx base united into a shallow disk-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes ovate lanceolate, apex caudal tip; petals 5, white, lanceolate or elliptic lanceolate, apex dentate, both sides have sparse white pubescence; stamens numerous; pistils numerous, free, base with white pubescence. Aggregate fruit subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam., red.

Born on hillside and ditch. It is distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and Taiwan.

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

[nature and taste] Sichuan common Chinese herbal medicine: "sour, salty, flat. "

[functions and indications] ① common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "dispelling wind, removing dampness, dispersing scrofula. Root: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis pain, knife injury, hematemesis, Jiuzi ulcer, tears in eyes. Ye: treatment of yellow water sores and dog bites. "

② Guizhou medicine and plant Catalogue: "tonifying the kidney, detoxifying, and harmonizing the blood. Treatment of dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] take orally; decoct soup, 0.5-1 Liang; or soak in wine. External use: tamping.

Chinese PinYin : Lao Hu Pao