Saikui

Saikui

(Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] Gossypium chrysanthum (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine) and Hemerocallis chrysanthum (selected works of the exhibition? Infectious diseases).

[source] it is the whole plant of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] sunflower

Herbs perennial, less than 1 m high. Branches with appressed long stellate hairs. Leaves narrowly ovate, ovate or strip narrowly ovate, 2-6 cm long, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin serrate, both surfaces sparsely appressed with simple hairs; stipules subulate, ca. 5 mm long. Flowers 1-2, axillary, petiolate; bracteoles 3, narrow strip; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, with rough hairs outside; petals 5, yellow, obovate; most anthers at the top of stamen tube; carpels about 10, each carpel with 1 erect ovule, stigma capitate. Mericarps reniform, ca. 2 mm high, flat, upper part hirsute, 1 spine near the top, 2 short spines in the middle of back.

It grows on the grass. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly sweet, cool. "

[function indications] Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and dampness, removing blood stasis and detumescence. It can cure jaundice, dysentery, malaria, infantile food stagnation, lung heat, cough, laryngitis, sore, swelling and pain. "

Usage: fresh Decoction and decoction (2-5). External use: tamping.

[selection] treatment of acute icteric infectious hepatitis: Mahonia leaf three to five money, huanghuacao five money. Take one dose three times a day. (selected works of the whole exhibition infectious diseases) two yellow cotton and one or two Trident guns. Add 300 ml of water, one dose a day, take twice. (prescription collection of new Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)

Chinese PinYin : Sai Kui