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(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the root of Hyoscyamus neohyoscyamus.

New Hyoscyamus

Herbs perennial, ca. 80 cm tall. The rhizome is stout. Stem cylindrical, purple. Leaves alternate; ovate or elliptic, 8-15 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, entire or occasionally irregularly shallowly serrated. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, greenish white, slightly pendulous; calyx hemispherical, 5-lobed; corolla narrowly campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes triangular; stamens 5; ovary conical, style cylindrical, capsule globose, enclosed by inflated persistent calyx.

Born in the mountain stream. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan.

[collection] harvest in autumn and winter, wash, slice and dry.

[chemical constituents] the root contains 0.23% atropine and 0.025% colchicine.

It's hard work, warm and poisonous.

Functions and indications: dispersing cold, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, relieving pain.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind cold: soushanhu Qili, chewed raw.

② For traumatic injuries, rheumatoid arthritis, paralysis, tetanus; soshanhu three points, a jin of wine, five to ten ml each time, twice a day. Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan

Chinese PinYin : Sou Shan Hu