Hibiscus mutabilis

Hibiscus mutabilis

(compendium)

[synonyms] Hibiscus fragrans (Qing Yi Lu), hibiscus fragrans (Ben Cao Tu Jing), Rushuang fragrans (Yibu Fang Wu Lue Ji), Qixing fragrans (collection of commonly used folk herbs), shuihibiscus fragrans and Shuangjiang fragrans (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the flower of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Hibiscus mutabilis (liuhedongji) is also known as Manglietia (jianglilingji), mangrove and bark tree (compendium), drunken Hibiscus mutabilis (preparation of raw herbs), and hibiscus macrophylla.

Deciduous shrub or small tree, 2-5M high. Branches stellate pubescent. The leaves are large, alternate, broadly ovate to ovate, 10-20 cm long and 9-22 cm wide, palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes triangular; the base is heart-shaped, apex short pointed or acuminate, margin with undulate obtuse teeth, slightly hairy above and densely stellate hairy below; the petiole is 5-8 cm long. Flowers axillary or clustered at the end of branches, 7-10 cm in diameter; white or pink when flowering in the morning, dark red in the afternoon; pedicel thick and long, covered with yellowish brown hair; bracteoles 8-10, linear, 1.5-2.5 cm long, covered with hair; calyx 5-lobed, 3-4 cm long, covered with hair, lobes broad ovate; corolla large and beautiful, petals 5, covered with hair outside, single or double petals; stamens many, filaments united Ovary 5-locular, style apex 5-lobed, stigma capitate. Capsule globose, loculicidal, 5-valved, ca. 2. 5 cm long, coarsely hairy. Seeds reniform, hairy. The flowering period is from August to October.

Most of them are planted in gardens. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

The root (Hibiscus mutabilis root) and leaf (Hibiscus mutabilis leaf) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the flowers in early bloom are picked and dried in October.

[medicinal materials] the dried flowers are bell shaped or shrunk into irregular oval shape; the bracteoles are 8-10, linear; the calyx is grayish green, 5-lobed, with stellate hairs on the surface; the Corolla is light red, reddish brown to brown, shrunken, soft, with yellowish brown stamens in the center.

It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places.

[flavor] pungent, flat.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "it tastes pungent, flat and nontoxic. "

② "South Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "cold in nature, bitter and sweet in taste. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, slightly bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. In the south of Yunnan Materia Medica, it goes into the lung. "

② Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the lung, liver. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, cooling blood, detumescence, detoxification, treating carbuncle, sore, scald, lung heat, cough, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea.

① "The book of Materia Medica" says: "the main evil sores. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "stop coughing, relieve toxic sores. "

③ "The picture of Materia Medica in the south of Yunnan" says: "apply sore, clear lung and cool blood, dissipate heat and detumescence. "

④ "Gangmu": "it can treat all kinds of carbuncle and gangrene, swelling, poison and sores, detumescence, discharge pus and relieve pain. "

⑤ "Preparation of raw herbal medicine": it can eliminate carbuncle and swelling, disperse sore and swelling poison, manage fish mouth and stool poison, and treat infantile convulsion and stomachache. "

⑥ "Classified herbal medicine nature": "treat eye diseases, women's leucorrhea, invigorate Qi and blood. "

⑦ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "Tongjing Huoxue, the treatment of gynecological collapse with various diseases.". "

⑧ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treating diarrhea. "

⑨ "Materia medica tuichen": "external application can cause injury, swelling and pain. "

⑩ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "cool blood, stop bleeding, clear away heat and toxin, detumescence, discharge pus, relieve pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: grind the end to adjust to apply or pound to apply.

[prescription selection] ① for hematemesis, uterine bleeding, burning eye, sore swelling and lung carbuncle: Hibiscus should be decocted for three to one or two yuan. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

② Treatment of carbuncle and swelling: Hibiscus mutabilis, flower, leaf, cortex moutan. Wash in boiling water. (Hunan medical records)

③ Treatment of snakehead and snake venom: two liang fresh hibiscus flowers and five yuan winter honey. Mash and apply, change two or three times a day. (Fujian folk practical herbal medicine)

④ Water treatment and scald: hibiscus flowers are dried in the sun, ground and mixed with sesame oil. (Hunan medical records)

⑤ Treatment of moxibustion sore: lotus flower research at the end of the application. (wonderful recipe)

⑥ Treatment of tuberculosis cough: Hibiscus flower two to four Liang, deer holding grass one or two, yellow sugar two liang, stewed pig heart and lung service; no sugar, salt can also be added. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑦ The treatment of menstruation and blood is not enough: frost resistant flower, lotus seed shell, etc. At the end of the day, two yuan per meter. (women's prescription)

[clinical application] 20% ointment made from hibiscus flowers is used for external application to treat furuncle, cellulitis, etc. it has anti-inflammatory, delayed swelling, purulent and analgesic effects. According to the observation of more than 300 cases, the pain can be alleviated after applying the medicine once; after 3-7 times, the effect of purulent extubation can be achieved without purulent detumescence.

Chinese PinYin : Mu Fu Rong Hua