Chinese fan palm

Chinese fan palm

(collection of herbs in Lingnan)

[synonym] fan leaf sunflower (flora of Guangzhou), Peng fan tree (medicinal plant of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine), sunflower fan wood (Luchuan materia medica).

[source] it is the leaf, seed or root of pukui.

[plant morphology] pollen Typhae

Large trees, up to 20 meters high. The stem has a tight ring pattern. The leaves are large, broad, kidney shaped, fan-shaped, with a diameter of more than 1 m. The lobes are mostly 2-lobed, lanceolate, with drooping apex. The petioles are long, flat and convex, with 2 rows of reverse spines at the lower part. Panicle long, scattered and widely divergent, in leaf axils; spathe brown, tubular, leathery, 2-lobed; flowers small, pale green, sessile, ca. 2 mm long; calyx and corolla split almost to base; stamens 6, filaments united into a ring; ovary superior, 3-carpel. Drupe elliptic or oblong, olive shaped, about 1.8 cm long, black when ripe. The flowering period is spring and summer.

Planted in the garden or near the house. It is distributed in the south of China.

[chemical constituents] Fructus Aconiti contains phenols, reducing sugars, tannins and triglycerides.

[nature and taste] 1. Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "flat, light. "

② "Sweet and astringent, flat" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou army. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the record of Lingnan medicine collection: "petiole: Calcined ash on the new tile, or fried with water, can cure blood collapse. "

② Lu Chuan materia medica: "stop bleeding. Treatment of traumatic bleeding. "

③ "Kuishuzi" is an anti-cancer drug in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine published by Guangzhou army. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-3 Qian; or calcined storage of research powder. External use: calcine and store, grind and sprinkle.

[selection] treatment of various cancers: kuishuzi (dry) one or two. Take it when you fry it for one to two hours. Or stewed with lean pork. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

Chinese PinYin : Pu Kui