Bubble palm tube

Bubble palm tube

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] firecracker bamboo slips, big stick grass, hollow grass, monkey orange, plum bamboo leaves, Golden Rooster lock.

[source] it is the whole plant of loniceraceae.

[plant morphology] Chaetomium tube

Small shrubs, 1-1.5m high. Stem erect, hollow. Leaves opposite; oblong, entire. Inflorescence spicate, with leaflike bracts, terminal or axillary; corolla funnel-shaped, purplish red. Berry. Many seeds, few.

It grows in sunny wasteland or thicket on hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] collected in summer and autumn, dried in the sun.

Bitter and smooth.

[function indications] diuresis, blood circulation, anti-inflammatory. Treat cystitis. Edema, bronchial asthma, rheumatism, hemorrhoids, food accumulation, abdominal distension, traumatic bleeding, fractures.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

Chinese PinYin : Pao Zhang Tong