Pinyin name Fenɡ

English name Herb of Bodinier Elsholtzia

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Source of medicinal materials: whole herb of Labiatae plant Perilla frutescens and Elsholtzia heterophylla.

Latin animal and plant mineral name: perilla frutescens.

Harvest and storage: autumn harvest, fresh food or sun drying.

Original shape

Perennial grass, 25-30cm high. The base of the stem is often radially procumbent, the upper part is uplifted, often branched from the base, and sometimes there are many short creeping branches. Stems and branches are mostly dark purple, with fine stripes and white pilose. Leaves subsessile; The upper leaves of stems and branches are lanceolate or oblanceolate, 0.8-2.5 cm long and 4-7 mm wide, with blunt apex, tapering base, obtuse serrated upper edge, nearly leathery, hairless on both sides, little fluff, and covered with glandular spots on the lower part. False spikes are solitary at the top of stems and branches, 2-3.5 cm long; Bracts are imbricate, cup-shaped, 6-8mm wide, with small protrusions at the top, pilose and glandular spots outside, and cilia at the edge; Calyx tube, 3 mm long, with soft begging and glandular spots outside, calyx teeth lanceolate, about 65438 0 mm long; Corolla purplish red, about 9 mm long, pilose and glandular outside, emarginate at the apex of upper lip, 3-lobed lower lip, long middle lobe, entire; Stamens 4, front pair longer, all protruding, hairs below filaments, anthers 2-loculed; Ovary 4-lobed, style more than stamens, stigma nearly equal to 2-lobed, lobes linear subulate. Nutlets are oblong, about 1. 1mm long, and brown and black. The flowering period is September-165438+ 10, and the fruiting period is 1 1 to February of the following year.

The difference between this plant and its predecessor is: the stem is erect, usually with a single or slightly branched upper part and slender creeping branches at the base; There are two kinds of leaves, the leaves on the creeping branches are small, wide oval or nearly round, and the leaves on the stems are lanceolate or oval.

Habitat distribution

Ecological environment: it is born in hillside grassland or pine forest at an altitude of1200-3000 m.

Born in villages, fields, river valleys or swamps at an altitude of1200-2400 m.

Resource distribution: distributed in Guizhou and Yunnan.

Distributed in Yunnan.

Character; Role; letter

Character identification (1) The stem of Perilla frutescens is square, multi-branched, 10-30cm long, with deep purple surface, fine longitudinal stripes, white pilose, and brittle and pithy cross section. The leaves are bent and withered. After flattening, it is linear-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, with a length of 1-2.5cm and a width of 0.4-0.9cm, and the glandular points are densely broken. You can see that the terminal spike has deep purple flowers, which have a specific fragrance after kneading. It tastes hot and cold.

(2) The stem of Elsholtzia heterophylla is 30-80 cm long, and the upper part is often single or micro-branched. The flattened leaves are type II, and the leaves on the stolon are oval in width, 2-5 cm long and 0.3-0.7 cm wide.

Spicy in nature; gender equality

Its function is mainly to dispel exogenous pathogenic factors; Regulating qi and stomach. Main cold; Red and swollen throat; Eyes red and swollen; Stomatitis; Toothache; Hepatitis; Indigestion

Administration and dosage: Take orally: decocted, 3-9g.

Various exhibitions

1. Common folk herbs in Kunming: relieving exterior syndrome, clearing yang and clearing liver. Treat colds, severe headaches, hepatitis, eye pain, dizziness and pain.

2. Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine: Eliminating exterior syndrome, regulating qi and regulating stomach. Treat exogenous wind-cold, headache, sore throat and dyspepsia.

Excerpts from Chinese Materia Medica