This kind of plant is easy to see in rural areas, mostly on forest edges or hillside grasslands, and mostly at lower altitudes.
When I first saw this plant, it was easy to think of two other plants in the park, one was iris, and the other was a girl without sorrow (which is what we call day lily). Before the shoots grow out, they are very similar to iris with embedded leaves; The flower branches grow, and when the flowers are not in bloom, they are very similar to the carefree girl (day lily), with terminal buds and long columns.
This paper introduces the herbal medicine of tablets, which uses the underground part of Belamcanda, also known as Belamcanda.
Belamcanda rhizome: Belamcanda rhizome of Iris is used as medicine. Belamcanda is a perennial herb with irregular rhizomes, many fibrous roots and erect stems. Leaves alternate, embedded, sword-shaped, with sheath at the base and tapering at the top; Inflorescence terminal, forked, with several flowers clustered at the top of each branch; The flowers are orange-red with sporadic purple-brown spots; Capsule obovate or oblong, yellow-green, ventral cracking when mature, petals everting, fruit axis standing in the middle; The seeds are spherical, dark purple and shiny.
The rhizome of Belamcanda belamcanda chinensis is excavated when the stems and leaves just germinate in early spring or wither in late autumn to remove fibrous roots and sediment. After drying, the product is irregular and nodular, with yellowish brown, brown or dark brown surface, shrinkage and dense ring patterns. There are several disc-shaped concave stem marks on it, and occasionally there are stem base residues; There are residual fine roots and root marks below. Hard, yellow part, granular. The gas is slight, bitter and slightly pungent.
Belamcanda: cold and bitter; Return to lung meridian. Its efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving sore throat. It can be used for stagnation of heat toxin and phlegm fire, sore throat, excessive phlegm and saliva, cough and asthma.
Belamcanda has a good effect on the throat, which can clear the throat and benefit the throat. Generally combined with throat moistening drugs such as mint, burdock and boat-fruited Sterculia. Compendium of Materia Medica contains: Belamcanda can reduce fire, and ancient prescriptions mainly treat throat obstruction and sore throat; Shooting dry cold can clear away heat, treat sore throat, throat wind, moth, mumps and swollen roots, and eliminate all heat and toxic sores and carbuncles.
Attention should be paid to the difference between belamcanda chinensis and iris. The biggest difference is the different colors. The dry color is red with scattered purple-brown spots; Iris is blue and purple. On the other hand, the leaves are all sword-shaped, but the leaves of iris are wider than those of blackberry lily, so we should pay attention to distinguish them in life.