Ginseng with five fingers

Ginseng with five fingers

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonym] Honghua manning.

[source] it is the root of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Okra

Perennial subshrub herb, 0.3-1 m high. Root fleshy, radish like. Branchlets sparsely covered with long hairs, leaves alternate; various in shape, broad ovate or suborbicular, base heart-shaped or halberd shaped, upper leaves sometimes arrow shaped, 3-5-lobed or deeply lobed, both sides sparsely covered with long coarse hairs, margin with blunt teeth, stipules narrowly lanceolate or linear, covered with hairs. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicel 3-5 cm long, elongated after anthesis; bracteoles 5-8, linear, with long cilia: calyx spatulate, both sides pilose; corolla red, 5-petal, about 4 cm long; stamen tube shorter than corolla; style top 5-branched, stigma flat. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 2.5-4 cm long, with short beak or long beak, thin leathery pericarp, sparsely covered with yellow long coarse hair. Seeds reniform, with longitudinal serrated glandular dots. The flowering period is from April to September.

It grows in shrub and grass on slope. Distributed in Guangdong, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] root digging, washing, slicing and drying in winter.

[flavor] sweet and light, slightly warm.

[function indications] nourish and strengthen. Treatment of neurasthenia, dizziness, lumbago, stomachache, diarrhea.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Zhi Shan Can