Five clawed Golden Dragon Flower

Five clawed Golden Dragon Flower

(Quanzhou materia medica)

[source] the flower buds of the family Convolvulaceae, dracocephalus quinquefasciatus, are described in the section "dracocephalus quinquefasciatus".

[collection] harvested in summer, dried or fresh.

Sweet, cold and nontoxic.

[function indications] relieving cough and removing steam. Treatment of bone steaming, heat, cough and haemorrhage.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat night sweats caused by bone steaming: Fourteen Golden Dragon flowers (dried) with five claws, stewed with an old duck.

② Treatment of hemoptysis: fourteen (fresh) Golden Dragon flowers with five claws, fried soup and honey.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Zhao Jin Long Hua