Chicken crop flower

Chicken crop flower

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] niushepian.

[source] it is the whole plant of Cymbidium tenuifolium.

[plant morphology] pyrophyllum gracile

Perennial herbs, 30-50 cm high. Stems erect, all hairy. Leaves alternate, elliptic or ovate elliptic, 6-8 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex acute, base clasping stem, parallel veins, short hairs on veins. Raceme terminal, with more than ten flowers, purple; bracts leafy; flowers pedunculate, green, purple outside, slightly downward curved; flower cap inward curved.

It grows in the weeds of earth mountain. It is distributed in Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

Sweet and smooth.

[function indications] Buzhong Yiqi, Shuyu, Hezhong. Weakness, vomiting and diarrhea, hernia after treatment.

[formula selection] 1. Weakness after treatment: chicken crop, stewed pork.

② Treatment of vomiting and diarrhea: chicken crop cost five money, simmer water service, three times a day.

③ Treatment of bladder hernia (testicular swelling): chicken crop to spend one or two, Polygonum cuspidatum, small wood each five money. Wine making clothes, three times a day, five yuan each time.

Chinese PinYin : Ji Su Zi Hua