Lacquer tree

Lacquer tree

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] iron elephant pole, wild lacquer tree.

[source] it is the root and leaf of lacqueraceae.

[plant morphology] lacquer tree

Shrub, 1-4 m high. Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous. Leaflets 5-7, papery, ovate to ovate, oblong, 3-5 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base obliquely cuneate or suborbicular, entire, glabrous on both sides. Panicle axillary, flowers small and sparse, miscellaneous; sepals and petals 4-6, imbricate arrangement; ovary sessile, 1-locular, style 30, drupe oblate, yellowish white to yellowish green; seed 1.

It grows in the shrub on the slope. Distributed in Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

Warm in nature and hard in taste.

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, removing dampness, detumescence and relieving pain.

[selection] 1. Treatment of rheumatism: one or two roots of iron elephant, soaked in wine, and fumigated with appropriate amount of boiling water.

② Treatment nameless swelling poison: Iron elephant stem leaf appropriate amount, pound apply the affected area.

Chinese PinYin : Shan Qi Shu