Dwarf Changshan

[alias] Woody Mountain Conch [Source]

Medicinal materials based source: the root of Verbena plant lobular sarcophagus.

Latin plant animal mineral name: Gmelina delauayana P. Dop [G. Montana W. W. Smith]

Harvesting and Storage: After the fall, roots are picked, washed, sliced, and dried.

【Original form】 small pebbles, no thorny shrubs, plant height 0.3-2m. Branchlets slender, cylindrical, dark brown, puberulous, glabrescent, sparsely lenticels. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.3-1 cm; leaf blade nearly oblong-ovate or rhombic, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1.2-2.2 cm wide or less, base slightly oblique, cuneate or obtuse, entire or mid-lower 1-2 shallow coarse teeth, apex blunt. The surface is glabrous and the back is densely covered with silvery white glandular spots. Panicles terminal, less flowers, large flowers, 3-4cm long, pedicels short, nearly apex with 2 lanceolate bracts; calyx campanulate, ca. 1 cm. Dark purple, molars 5, irregularly triangular to ovoid, 5-7 mm long, sparsely denticulate, sparsely toothed and calyx tube sparsely black discoid glands 1-8; corolla lavender, beginning with glandular hairs and Yellow glandular spots, glabrescent, funnelform, apex two cleft lip, upper lip entire or two lobed, lobes growing in lower lip, nearly winglike. Yellow inside, 4 stamens, 2 strong, long stamens slightly outside the corolla. Drupe obovate, 10-16mm long, exocarp fleshy, black when dry, with a bowl-shaped increase in the city of Suzhou. Flowering June, fruiting July-September.

Habitat distribution

Eco-environment: Born in the limestone jungle 150-1700m above sea level, in shrubs or on dry slopes.

Resource distribution: distributed in Sichuan and Yunnan.

[taste] spicy; temperature [indications] qi; consumer product, cut malaria. Stagnant food stagnation; abdominal distention pain; long malaria.

Dosage Oral: Jiantang, 15-30g.

【Excerpt】 "Chinese Materia Medica"