Tengzhong

Tengzhong

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] gunflower herb (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), Celastrus tomentosa and Cervus macrophylla (Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine), chabaolongnan (Dai name).

[source] it is the root, stem or stem bark of staghorn vine.

[plant morphology] staghorn vine

Thick woody vines, 10 meters long, all densely covered with yellow villi, young branches with milk. Large, simple, opposite, broadly elliptic or obovate, 15-30 cm long and 10-20 cm wide, apex rounded or slightly pointed, base rounded, veins distinct, entire. Cyme terminal or false axillary, flowers large, white or light red; calyx 5-lobed, with a round of glands on the inner surface; corolla high pedunculate, throat bald, lobes wide, arranged in left rotation; stamens attached to the top of the crown tube, anthers arrowhead shaped, elongated, glued and close to stigma, subventricular with short distance. Follicles opposite, about 20 cm long, straight and hard, with many seeds and tufts at the top.

It grows in the valley, dense forest and wet place. It is distributed in Yunnan and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] sweet, light, flat, toxic.

① Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "light, flat, toxic. "

② "Yunnan Simao Chinese herbal medicine selection": taste sweet and bitter, slightly warm. "

[functions and indications] Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "stop bleeding and invigorate muscles, relax muscles and activate collaterals. "

[selection] ① treatment of traumatic bleeding: Tengzhong grind the end, spread the affected area.

② Treatment of fracture: Tengzhong grind end, with wine or paste, external application.

③ Treatment of rheumatism: Tengzhong one or two. Soak half a catty of wine for three days, once a day, 15ml each time. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Teng Zhong