Scientific name: Lingxiaohua

Alias: Camptotheca acuminata, Osmunda japonica, Osmunda japonica and Osmunda japonica.

Family name: Gentianaceae

Collection and processing: Flowers from Lingxiao, China are usually used and can be harvested from July to September. Choose a sunny day, pick the flowers that are about to open, and dry them in the sun or with slow fire. Drying can keep the primary colors of flowers. Roots are picked, washed, sliced and dried in spring and autumn.

The taste is spicy, sour and slightly cold. A little poisonous.

Efficacy: promoting blood circulation, cooling blood, removing blood stasis and dredging channels.

Application of prescription:

1 cure itching all over the body: camphor is not good, take 3 grams of wine.

2 Treatment of rosacea: Camptotheca acuminata and Gardenia are equally divided, 6 grams each, and taken with tea after meals, twice a day.

Treatment of rheumatic joint pain and hemiplegia: Camptotheca acuminata root 5 ~ 15g, decocted with appropriate amount of brown sugar and yellow wine, and taken twice before meals in the morning and evening.

Pregnant women are forbidden. Pollen is poisonous to prevent it from entering the eyes.