Sapphire

Sapphire

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] mountain bean root (Guizhou herbal medicine), wood blue fork (Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album).

[source] it is the root of the leguminous plant Cymbidium.

[plant morphology] Sapphire

Dwarf shrubs, 30-50 cm high. Stem erect, angular, grayish green. The leaflets are usually 7 pieces, elliptic or obovate elliptic, 2-4 cm long and 1.2-2.8 cm wide, turquoise on the top and gray green on the bottom. The apex is obtuse, with small needle, the base is obtuse or broad cuneate, and both sides are close to white hairs. Racemes axillary, 10-20 cm long; flowers large, 1-1.5 cm long, pink to purple; calyx cup-shaped, calyx teeth triangular, back hairy; anthers hairy at both ends. Pods cylindrical, 4.5 cm long. The flowering period is May.

Born in the hillside jungle. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] slightly bitter, flat.

Functions and indications: clearing heat and tonifying deficiency

[prescription selection] ① treatment of throat itching and cough: radix sophorae tonkinensis, one cloud, fried in water.

② Treatment of deficiency sweat: five money of mountain bean root, stewed meat to eat. (the following is Guizhou herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: sapphire root grind powder external application. (Chinese herbal medicine earth method war preparation album)