Cold powder rattan

Cold powder rattan

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] baijieteng, jishanlong, Shandougen (Guangxi wild resource plants), qingtengzi, geziteng (Hainan flora), Jinxianfeng (Luchuan materia medica), jinsuozhuo, 24fengteng, shankushen, chanjiteng (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the root, stem and leaf of Cyclocarya farinacea.

[plant morphology] Cyclocarya farinacea

Twining vines. Branching herbaceous, slender, striate, glabrous. Leaf peltate, broadly triangular ovate to ovate, 2.5-6.5 cm long and 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base nearly truncated or rounded, entire, thin papery, glabrous on both sides, palmate veins 5-7, petiole 1.5-4 cm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; inflorescence axillary; male inflorescence series 3-flowered cymes arranged in spikes, each male flower has sepals 4 or 5, separated, obovate to form obovate cuneate, glabrous, petals united into cup, anther stamens slightly extended; female inflorescence series 3-flowered cymes arranged in racemes, each female flower has sepals 2, suborbicular, petals 2, different sizes Ovary glabrous, stigma lobes thick, drupe subglobose, ca. 3. 5 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide. The flowering and fruiting period is summer and autumn.

In sparse forests or shrubs. It is distributed in the south of China.

[collection] collected after autumn.

[nature and taste] Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "bitter, cold. "

[functions and indications] ① in "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": "root: purging liver fire, relieving heat and toxin, anti-inflammatory. General treatment of laryngeal pain, diphtheria, infantile fetal toxicity, wind fire toothache. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "root: Cool throat, cough. Stem: cough, expectorant, defecate. Ye: for sore throat and abdominal pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Liang Fen Teng