The Earth's Golden Lotus is also known as the thousand-petaled lotus, the Earth's Golden Lotus, the Golden Steel, in China's Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province has a large number of points. It is one of the "five trees and six flowers" designated by Buddhist monasteries. In fact, the stems and sap of Gezhongjinlian also have the effect of detoxification, detoxification, and is made into a hemostatic drug used. So, what are the medicinal values of Gezhongjinlian? The following is a detailed introduction to the medicinal knowledge of the Gezhongjinlian.
Morphological features
The plant is tufted, with horizontal rhizomes. The pseudostem is dwarf, less than 60 centimeters tall, with a basal diameter of about 15 centimeters and a persistent leaf sheath at the base. Leaf blade long elliptic, up to 0.5 m long, ca. 20 cm wide, apex acute, base subrounded, symmetrical on both sides, with white powder.
Inflorescences erect, borne directly on pseudostems, crowded as bulbous spikes, 20-25 cm long, bracts scarious, yellow or yellowish, with flowers in 2 rows of 4-5 flowers each; connate tepals ovate-oblong, apex 5(3+2)-dentate, free tepal apex retuse, concavity mucronate.
Berry trigonous-ovate, ca. 3 cm long, ca. 2.5 cm in diameter, outside densely hirsute, fruit with numerous seeds; seeds large, compressed globose, 6-7 mm wide, blackish brown or brown, smooth, ventral surface with large, white hilum.
Effects and functions of Dichongjinlian
Taste and odor: bitter; astringent; cold
Attributed to the large intestine meridian
Functions: Stopping leucorrhoea; stopping bleeding. The main leucorrhea; leakage; blood in stool
Discussions of various schools "Yunnan Materia Medica": the treatment of women with leucorrhea red avalanches for a long time, the large intestine under the blood. And blood for a long time want to get rid of, with which can also be fixed off.
Use and dosage
Internally: decoction, 10-15g.
Contraindications
The use of Dichongjinlian
Dosage in moderation.
Does Gezhongjinlian have poison
Non-toxic.
Legend has it that at the time of the birth of the Buddha every step of the foot will give birth to a golden golden lotus, this golden lotus is the Earth's gold lotus oh. In fact, it is also edible, the petals of the lotus can be opened, leaving the innermost part of the white part is edible.