Little red vine

Little red vine

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] green grapevine (Guizhou folk medicine), Himalayan Parthenocissus (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant of Parthenocissus tricuspidata.

[plant morphology] Parthenocissus tricuspidata

Deciduous climbing vines. The stem is densely covered with reddish brown coarse hairs; the tendrils are short and branched, spiral, with a round sucker at the top. Leaves opposite tendrils; leaves palmate, 3 leaflets; middle leaflets obovate to broadly lanceolate ovate, 6-12 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, slightly small, margin acutely serrate, glabrous on both sides or pubescent on lower veins; petiole 3-12 cm long. Inflorescence oblong with 5 stamens; inflorescences yellow or 5-lobed; stamens 5-lobed, sometimes bisexual. Berries globose, dark brown when ripe.

Born on the hillside. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "nature is warm, but not bitter. "

[functions and indications] ① Guizhou folk medicine: "Jiegu". Treatment of traumatic injury, fracture, rheumatism. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "Jiegu, Huayu, Qufeng dehumidification. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic injury: one or two for xiaohongteng and one or two for jianxuefeigen. Wine making clothes.

② Fracture treatment: a small red vine, see Xuefei, red Pueraria each equal. Mash and stir fry with wine to heat the affected area. Two small red vine, triangle wind each equally. Mash and add wine to the affected area.

③ Treatment of rheumatism: small red vine, triangle wind, etc. Wash the affected area with boiling water. (all the selected prescriptions were published in Guizhou folk medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Xiao Hong Teng