Sugar tea?

Sugar tea?

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] cermamaiba (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the inner skin or fruit of the stem and branch of Saxifraga Tangcha.

[plant morphology] sugar tea?

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 2-4 meters high. Branchlets dark reddish brown, smooth. Leaves alternate; palmately divided, usually 5-lobed, margin irregularly serrate, base cordate, dark green above, covered with small white bristles, grayish green below, usually purulent, veins palmate; petiolate. Raceme in leaf axils cross out, there are more than 10 small flowers, light yellow green, style and stamen length. Berry red with 1 persistent calyx at the top and 2 black seeds.

Born in hillside forest. Distributed in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

[collection] in May and June, the stems and branches were cut, the outer skin was scraped, the inner skin was peeled and dried. The ripe fruits were harvested from September to October and dried in the sun.

[flavor] sweet and astringent, flat.

[function indications] detoxification. Treat hepatitis.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Tang Cha