Green bar bowl

Green bar bowl

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[source] it is the shell or fruit of Quercus variabilis.

[plant morphology] Quercus variabilis, also known as cork oak, coarse oak, white oak.

Deciduous tree, 15-25m high, light gray bark, deep split, thick and soft cork layer, 10 cm thick. Single leaf alternate, elliptic lanceolate or elliptic ovate, 8-15 cm long, 2-5.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin serrate, apex awned, dark green above, with gray white stellate villi below; petiole 1.5-3 cm long. The male inflorescence is at the lower end of the new branch, sepals 2-5-lobed, stamens 4-6; the female inflorescence is at the axil of the new branch, with short stalks. Nut subglobose or ovate, 1.5-2 cm long, cupule with many subulate linear recurved scales. The flowering period is April. The fruit ripens in September.

Born in the bush. Distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

[nature and taste] Guizhou herbal medicine: "shell: bitter and astringent, flat. "

[functions and indications] ① in the list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: "fruit: Invigorating the stomach, astringent, hemostatic and dysentery. For hemorrhoids, Vickers and carbuncle. "

② "Guizhou herbal medicine": "shell: cough, astringent bowel. For cough, watery diarrhea and tinea capitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: grind and apply.

[selection] 1. Cough treatment: qinggangwan Wuqian. Simmer water clothes.

② Treatment of diarrhea: qinggangwan one or two. Simmer water clothes.

③ Treatment of tinea capitis: appropriate amount of Qinggang bowl, grind powder, and apply vegetable oil to the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine was selected)

Chinese PinYin : Qing Gang Wan