Tangli

Tangli

(compendium)

[synonyms] Du and Gantang (Book of songs), Du Li (Book of songs by Lu Ji), Du Tang (notes to Guo Pu in Erya), Ye Li (compendium), Tu Li (Chinese tree taxonomy).

[source] it is the fruit of Tangli, a Rosaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Tangli

Deciduous trees, 4-10m high. Bark grayish brown, longitudinally lobed; young branches dark brown, tomentose, sometimes spiny. They are simple, alternate, rhomboid or elliptic ovate, 4-11 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin serrate, dark green above, glabrous below, green at first, tomentose; petiole 2-5 cm long. The flowers are white, 2-3.3 cm in diameter, with 8-10 leaves opening first, forming corymbs; the pedicel is 1-2.5 cm long; the calyx is 5-lobed, the lobes are lanceolate, with dense villi; the petals are 5-obovate. Apex rounded, base narrow; stamens numerous; style 2-3. The pear is globose, 1-1.6cm in diameter, brown, with white spots and calyx falling off. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruiting period is October.

Wild in the wilderness, the foot of the mountain, roadside or roadside. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Liaoning and other places.

The branches and leaves of this plant (the branches and leaves of Tangli) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[chemical composition] the fruit contains 19.62% sugar and 50.93% water. The leaves contain chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid, neochlorogenic acid and quercetin derivatives. It also contains a lot of protein.

Sour and sweet, cold.

① "Saving wasteland Materia Medica": "it tastes sweet and sour. "

② "Gangmu": "sour sweet astringent, cold, non-toxic. "

③ "Yucatalpa medicine solution": sour taste, astringent slightly cold. "

[Guijing] yuluo Yaojie: "start with Taiyin lung, foot Jueyin liver meridian. "

[function indications] astringent lung, astringent bowel. For cough and diarrhea.

① Compendium: "burning food to stop diarrhea.". "

② "Yucatalpa medicine solution": "collect the intestines and astringe the lungs, stop catharsis and eliminate vomiting. "

Chinese PinYin : Tang Li