Alias: White Insect Warehouse, Mufuzi, Lacquer Beetle, Red Peach, Dry Beetle. It is a kind of gall on the leaves of sumac.

Galla chinensis is a small deciduous tree or shrub with a height of 2- 10 m. Branchlets brown, rust-colored pilose, with round lenticels. Odd pinnate compound leaves alternate, leaf axis and petiole often have wings, leaflets are sessile and papery, often oval or oval, oval or oblong. The surface of leaves is dark green, covered with white powder, sparsely pilose or nearly glabrous along midvein, and the back of leaves is rusty pilose. Panicle is wide, terminal, multi-branched, male inflorescence is longer, female inflorescence is shorter, dense rust. These flowers are small, yellow and white. The calyx lobes of male flowers are oblong, the petals are obovate and oblong, when flowering, the stamens are elongated, the filaments are linear and the anthers are ovoid. Female flowers have shorter calyx lobes and oval petals. Ovary ovoid, densely white puberulent. Style 3, stigma capitate. Drupe is spherical, slightly flat, jointed, glandular hairy, and red when mature. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is 65438+1October. Born in shrubs and sparse forests in Lime Mountain. It is distributed all over the country (except Xinjiang and Qinghai).

[Harvesting and processing] Picking in autumn, slightly boiling in boiling water until the surface is gray, killing aphids and taking them out to dry.

① Abdominal fold: rectangular or fusiform capsule, 2.5-9cm long and 1.5-4cm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown or grayish brown, slightly pilose. Hard and brittle, easily broken, with horny and shiny cross section, 0.2-0.3cm wall thickness, smooth inner wall, dark brown dead aphids and gray powdery excrement. Qi is single-minded and tastes astringent. ② Angular fold: rhombic, with irregularly carved obtuse branches, obviously hairy and thin wall.

It tastes sour, sweet and warm. Enter the lung, heart and kidney meridians.

Indications: convergence, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, tonifying kidney and calming heart. Indications: Chronic cough, shortness of breath, nocturnal emission from wet dream, frequent micturition, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, body fluid injury and thirst, shortness of breath and pulse deficiency, internal heat and thirst, and palpitation and insomnia.