The efficacy and function of Meconopsis yellow flower

The Chinese medicinal herb Meconopsis yellow flower is a relatively good medicinal material. Many people don’t know much about it, so let’s take a detailed look at the Chinese medicinal herb Meconopsis yellow flower.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Meconopsis ellipsoides of the Poppy family.

[Original morphology] Meconopsis ellipsoides is a perennial herb, 0.5-1.5m tall. The main root is thin, with many fibrous roots, and the rhizome has persistent leaf bases and is densely covered with yellow-brown short-branched bristles, often with second-year buds. The stem is erect, green with purple, branched at the top and hairy at the bottom. The basal leaves and lower stem leaves are short-petiolated, densely covered with yellow-brown long stiff hairs; the leaf blade is broadly ovate in outline, about 7.5 cm long and 7 cm wide, pinnately divided near the base, pinnately shallowly lobed at the apex, with 3-5 lobes, sparsely pinnately shallowly lobed or deeply lobed, the lobule is ovate, obtuse or nearly rounded at the apex, sparsely covered with long stiff hairs on both sides, and with white powder on the back; the upper stem leaves are smaller, sessile or nearly sessile, broadly ovate, slightly hairy, pinnately 3-lobed or 3-lobed. The flowers grow in the axils of the upper stems and branches, sometimes 2 flowers grow at the end of the twigs; 2 sepals, nearly round, glabrous, with one side of the edge membranous; 4 petals, yellow, obovate or nearly ovate, 2-2.3m long, 1.7-2.2cm wide; many stamens, filaments filiform, anthers narrowly oblong, yellow; ovary ovate, glabrous or slightly bristly near the base, style short, stigma capitate. Capsule ovate, glabrous, with 4-5 (-6) lobes slightly split from tip downwards. The seeds are sickle-oblong and less than 1 mm long. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruiting period is after July.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown under sparse woods or in shady places beside streams at an altitude of 1850-3700m.

【Nature and flavor】 Slightly bitter; cold; slightly toxic

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat; removes dampness; relieves stranguria; relieves pain. Mainly used for lung heat cough; pneumonia; hepatitis; damp-heat edema; stranguria; rheumatic joint pain

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 3-6g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Above we introduced what Meconopsis yellow flower is. We know that Meconopsis yellow flower has very comprehensive effects and functions, so Meconopsis yellow flower can be used as a means of regulating the body in daily life.