Crab beetle

Crab beetle is named because its eastern end is shaped like a crab claw. The ancient city wall of Wuchang was built along this ridge, so it has the name of Chengshan. At present, there are still remnants of the city wall near the East moat in the north of the west section. The bricks are embedded in the hillside, about 100 meters long and about 5 meters high.

Crab beetle

Crabs are perennial herbs, 30-70 cm high. The whole plant is hirsute. The root is stout, branched, the lateral root is locally expanded, and the tuberous root is round and brown yellow.

morphological character

Perennial herbs. The main root is thick, spindle shaped, 2.5 cm in diameter, branched, and the lateral root is spherical in shape, brown yellow. The rhizome is cylindrical, on which there are dense and persistent petioles at the base, single stem from the top and branches from the base. Stems tufted, erect or ascending, unbranched, 15-20 cm high, lower part 3 mm thick, cylindrical, upper part quadrangular, sparsely appressed stellate villi. Basal leaves numerous, lanceolate oblong or narrowly oblong, 5-9 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, apex obtuse or suborbicular, base cordate, margin crenate, cauline leaves small, ovate oblong to oblong, 2-3.5 cm long and 1.2-2 cm wide, apex rounded or broadly cuneate, margin crenate, bracts oblong lanceolate to linear lanceolate, 1.8-3.5 cm long and 0.6-1.2 cm wide The leaf blade is rugose, olive green above, covered with stellate hispid hairs and simple hairs, light below, sparsely covered with stellate short hairs, the petiole of basal leaf is 2-5 cm long, that of stem leaf is 0.4-1.3 cm long, and that of bract leaf is very short to nearly sessile. Cymes many flowered, 3-5, distal part sparse; bracts spinose, ciliate and stellate puberulent, nearly as long as calyx. Calyx tubular, 9-10 mm long, 4 mm wide, outside densely stellate and glandular puberulent, upper veins with mixed stellate puberulent and simple hairs, teeth ca. 1.3 mm long, rounded, apex with spinule ca. 1.2 mm long. Corolla ca. 1.5 cm long, outside densely pilose on labellum, corolla tube glabrous except back, with inner hair ring, upper lip ca. 5 mm long, margin dentate, with inner beard, lower lip ca. 8 mm long, 6.5 mm wide, 3-lobed, middle lobe larger, obcordate, ca. 3.5 mm wide, apex emarginate, lateral lobes ovate, smaller, ca. 2.5 mm long. The stamens and styles extend slightly, and the filaments of the latter pair of stamens have hook like appendages on the hairy ring. Style apex unequally 2-lobed. Nutlets apically covered with granular indumentum. The flowering period is July.

Growth environment

It grows on dry hillside, shrub and field, 4300-4600 m above sea level.

Distribution range

Of Tibet; collected from Kangba sect, Tibet.

Main value

Medicinal value

Root tuber is used as medicine to treat cold, cough and bronchitis.

Crab beetle (1)

Pinyin Name: P á n ɡ Xi è Ji ǎ

Source: Phlomis younghusbandii Mukerjee, a plant of the genus Phlomis in Labiatae. When the aboveground parts wither from September to October, dig out the root tubers, wash them, slice them and dry them in the sun.

Taste: sweet, flat.

Indications: antitussive and expectorant, heat clearing and blood cooling. It is used for cold, cough, bronchitis, and long-term treatment of sore.

Usage and dosage: 1-3 yuan.

Excerpt: national collection of Chinese herbal medicine

Crab beetle (2)

Source: common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet

Alias: lumuer (Tibetan name)

Source: tuberous roots of crabs of Labiatae. From September to October, root tubers were collected, washed, sliced and dried.

Taste: sweet, flat.

Indications: clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Treat cold, cough, bronchitis.

Usage and dosage: oral: decoction, 1 ~ 3 yuan.

Crab beetle (3)

Source: from Tibetan Common Chinese herbal medicine

English Name: root of Younghusband jerusalemsage

Another name: zangzhusu

Latin name: Phlomis younghusbandii Mukerjee

Source: tuberous roots of crabs of Labiatae.

Harvest and storage: harvest, wash, slice and dry in autumn

Resource distribution: it is distributed in Fukang bazong.

Character: the root tuber is irregular spherical or long oval, 3-8cm in length and 1-3cm in diameter. The surface is yellow or yellowish brown, with longitudinal wrinkles or obvious gullies; the two ends are slightly protruding and sharp, with fine roots and root marks; it is light and brittle, with white cross section and powdery. It's very sweet.

It is better to be big, full and solid.

Taste: sweet; flat

Indications: dispersing wind and clearing heat; relieving cough and resolving phlegm; generating muscle and astringing sore. Main wind heat cold; cough phlegm; sore ulcers for a long time not convergence

Usage and dosage: oral: decoction, 3-9g.

Excerpt: Chinese Materia Medica

Introduction to place names

brief introduction

Crabs in Wuchang

Crab is a small mountain in Wuhan City, also known as "crab Cape". It is located between Tanhualin and Zhongshan Road in Wuchang District of Wuhan city. The mountain is 1.8 km long from east to west. It reaches Zhongshan Road and Shahu section in the East, and Desheng bridge in the west, with an area of 100000 square meters and an altitude of 57 meters.

Crab beetle is named because its eastern end is shaped like a crab claw. The ancient city wall of Wuchang was built along this ridge, so it has the name of Chengshan. At present, there are still remnants of the city wall near the East moat in the north of the west section. The bricks are embedded in the hillside, about 100 meters long and about 5 meters high.

bus line

Route 1: take bus 584

First of all, find the Wushan shop on Changqing Road of Hankou railway station. It's about 500 meters from the train station to the bus station. After finding the bus number 584, you can see the direction of the bus. Don't sit backwards. Then get off at crabs on Zhongshan Road

Route 2: take bus 542 to bus 108

1. Take 542 at Hankou railway station (via 9 stations for 51 minutes) and get off at Huanghelou South Road.

2. Huanghelou South Road by 108 (via 3 stops | 21 minutes) 3 to Zhongshan Road crab Cape off

Address: between Tanhualin and Zhongshan Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan City

Longitude: 114.31700134277

Latitude: 30.550699234009

Chinese PinYin : Pang Xie Jia