The efficacy and function of yellow flowered swertia

With the development of society and the close international exchanges, most people who study medicine have been seriously influenced by Western medicine, and fewer and fewer people are studying Chinese medicine, which has resulted in less and less understanding of Chinese medicine. Let’s talk about the effects and functions of the Chinese medicine yellow flowered deer teeth.

[Source] Medicinal material source: It is the root of the Gentianaceae plant Swertia vulgaris.

[Original form] Perennial herb, 70-100cm high. With short rhizomes. The stem is thick, with fine ridges, and is unbranched. The basal leaves and leaves on the lower part of the stem have long petioles, 5-13cm long; the leaf blades are broadly elliptic, 12-18cm long, 5-9cm wide, obtuse at the apex, gradually narrowing at the base, with 7-9 veins, which are obviously protruding on the underside; the leaves in the middle and upper parts of the stem are in pairs, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 3-10cm long, 0.7-4cm wide, obtuse or pointed at the apex, obtuse at the base, without petioles, free, and united into a tubular clasping stem. The paniculate compound cymes are densely grown, narrow, usually interrupted, about 25cm long, and many-flowered; the pedicels are thick, unequal in length, up to 3cm long; the flowers are 5-inflorescence; the calyx is 2/3 the length of the corolla, ovate-lanceolate, 11-13mm long, with an acute apex, sparsely irregular fine teeth on the margin, and 3-5 veins on the back; the corolla is yellow-green with blue fine stripes, the lobes are oblong to obovate-oblong, 1.5-1.7cm long, obtuse at the apex, erode-shaped, and the rest of the margins are entire, with 2 glandular crypts at the base, the base of the glandular crypts is cystic, and the margins have fringe-like soft hairs; there are 5 stamens, the filaments are linear-subulate, 8-9mm long, with fringe-like short hairs on the back of the base, and the anthers are blue and oblong; the ovary is nearly sessile, oblong or ovate, the style is not obvious, the stigma is 2-lobed, and the lobes are oblong. Flowering period is August-September.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing on hillsides at an altitude of 3400-3800m.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; cold

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and detoxifies; cools blood and stops bleeding. Treats damp-heat jaundice and blood-heat bleeding

[Usage and Dosage] For oral administration, the previous decoction, 3-10g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Root: bitter in taste, cold in nature, has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying and stopping bleeding. Used for icteric hepatitis and various bleeding diseases.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

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