Mountain root

Mountain root

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[source] it is the root or root bark of Lauraceae.

[plant morphology] mountain, also known as dayeshan, mizhu and fushancang.

Deciduous shrub or small tree, 1-6m high. It has silky hairs when young. Leaves alternate, obovate elliptic or ovate, 412 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly wedge-shaped, entire, papery, pubescent below, shedding when old, lateral veins 5-8; petiole 5-12 mm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; umbels axillary, pedicels yellowish brown pilose; perianth segments 6, elliptic, yellow; male flowers with stamens 9, anthers inward lobed. The fruit is spherical, dark red, about 7 mm in diameter, and the peduncle is 1.5-2 cm long. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows in the edge of hillside forest or roadside shrub. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Warm in nature and pungent in taste.

[function indications] hemostasis, detumescence, qi circulation and pain relief. For scabies, rubella and stomachache.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of stomachache: Radix Sophorae. South Schisandra root skin three money, junxincao, Plantago two money each. Take it in water.

② Treatment of bleeding caused by knife wound: mash the skin and apply it to the affected area.

Chinese PinYin : Shan Gen