Diamond Wind 1

Diamond Wind 1

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[source] it is the root of Hedysarum henryi.

[plant morphology] henrycha? Zi, also known as yanmasang.

Small shrubs, up to 1 m high. Branchlets with glands and bristles. The leaf blade is elliptic or oval, 2-4cm long and 1-2.4cm wide, apex is short, base is round, the upper part of the edge has shallow teeth, the lower part has glands, leathery. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; several flowers integrated into racemes, born in leaf axils, flowers light green; calyx tubular, 5-lobed, lobes triangular, with upper ribs; corolla 5-lobed, shorter than calyx, alternate with calyx; stamen 5; ovary inferior, stigma 2, berry, obovate, long elliptic, green, up to 2 cm long, with stipitate glands.

It grows in the crevice of rock. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou.

[collection] all year round.

[flavor] pungent and astringent, warm.

[function indications] treat rheumatism, tuberculosis, hematemesis.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of muscle and bone pain: Diamond wind, black bone vine each five money, Touguxiang, zoumatai each three money. One jin of wine, five yuan each time.

② Treatment room injury hematemesis: a diamond wind, nosebleed thunder each five money, Agrimonia three money. Fry in water and add wine. Two diamond wind, lotus root, Huaihua, Polygonum multiflorum, loquat leaf, Maogen each three money. Take it in boiling water.