Wild bitter pear root

Wild bitter pear root

(Guizhou folk medicine)

The roots of Rosaceae are cotyledons.

[plant morphology] pachyhylla

Semi evergreen shrubs. Branchlets with yellowish gray flat soft tomentose when young. Single leaf alternate, leathery, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex short acuminate, with small protuberance, base cuneate, entire, densely yellow white soft hairs below, petiole about 4 mm long. Compound corymb terminal on lateral branches, flowers small, pedicel densely attached tomentose; calyx 5-lobed, densely attached tomentose; petals 5, broadly obovate, reddish purple; stamens numerous; ovary inferior, stigma 2. The pear is reddish brown.

Born in the shade of the mountains. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest after autumn

Bitter, cool and nontoxic.

[function indications] detumescence, detoxification.

[selected formula] treatment of redness, swelling and maliciousness: root bark of fresh wild bitter pear, mash the affected part, all the parts are covered if they are not broken, and the head is left if they have broken.

Chinese PinYin : Ye Ku Li Gen