Ephedra Sinica

Ephedra Sinica

(Chinese medicine and plant records)

[synonyms] stinky grass (a textual research on the name and reality of plants), naked rutin (a dictionary of families and genera of Chinese seed plants), Shepi grass (ACTA phytotaxonomica Sinica 6 (1): 1401957), lice grass, snake bite medicine and qianchui Wu (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan).

[source] it is the whole plant of Ephedra Sinica.

[plant morphology] Ephedra Sinica

Subshrub perennial, 60-80 cm high, glabrous and glandular. The petioles are ovate, obovate lanceolate or oblong ovate, 0.7-2.5 cm long and 0.3-1 cm wide. The middle leaflet is larger, apex obtuse, base cuneate, entire or undulate. The petioles are short. Flowers bisexual, single leaf axils; pedicel slender; sepals 4-5-lobed, ovate to ovate lanceolate, about 1 mm long; petals 4-5, ovate oblong, yellow, 4-6 mm long; stamens 8-10, filaments of different lengths; ovary superior, 2-locular, style 1, apex lobed. Capsule, reniform, apically dehiscent. Seeds arm shaped. It blooms in spring.

Most of them are found in sand beach and hills. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan and Guangxi.

[collection] harvest from April to June.

[nature and taste] common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "warm in nature, slightly pungent in taste. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior symptoms, strengthening spleen and promoting water circulation. Treatment of cold, cough, asthma, vomiting, edema.

① Common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "relieving symptoms, stopping vomiting and relieving asthma. Treat cold, cough and asthma, hydrops and snake bite. "

② List of plants in Guangxi: diuretic and detumescence. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-5 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Shan Ma Huang