The efficacy and function of Brahma flower

I wonder if you have ever heard of the Brahma flower. Brahma flower has great benefits for regulating our body and can also play a good role in treating some diseases. Today let us look at the relevant knowledge about Brahma flower.

[Alias] Triangle maple, three-in-one maple (Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities), lotus head woman (Flora of Guangzhou), dog's feet, dog's claws, wild eggplant, rags, false meat flowers, lice heads (Fujian Folk Herbs), Five Dragons Club, sticky flower clothes, false cotton (Mindong Materia Medica), wild cotton, wild cotton peach (Jiangxi Folk Herbal Prescriptions), ground cotton, eight hammers, seven sisters (Jiangxi Herbs), mountain cotton, cotton kidney, dog's feet, red wild cotton, wild kapok (Zhejiang Folk Commonly Used Herbs), dark clouds covering snow (Guangxi Chinese Herbs).

[Source] It is the whole herb of Brahma odorata, a plant of the Malvaceae family. Harvest in summer and autumn, remove the roots and dry in the sun.

[Original morphology] An upright semi-shrub with branches, about 1 meter high, and branches densely covered with star-shaped short hairs. The leaves are alternate, 2 to 7 cm long and 1 to 6 cm wide, usually 3 to 5 deeply lobed, with the clefts reaching below the middle. The lobes are obovate or rhombus-shaped, and the top lobe becomes narrower at the base and has small serrations on the edges. Flowers axillary, solitary or slightly clustered; epicalyx 5-lobed, lobes triangular; calyx 5-lobed, both covered with stellate hairs; petals 5. Pink, oval, fused at the base and connate to the staminal tube: stamens connate, filaments fused into a tube, anthers purple-red; 1 pistil, 10-lobed style at the tip, red. The capsule is oblate, about 1 cm in diameter, with 5 pods and hooked spines. Flowering period is from summer to winter.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in mountains, roadsides, barren slopes or bushes. Distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places. Produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and other places.

[Properties] The dried plant is 20 to 50 cm long, with a stem thickness of about 3 to 7 mm, cylindrical, brown, and young branches dark green to gray-green; the texture is hard and fibrous, the wood is white, and there is pith in the center. The leaves are usually 3 to 5 deeply lobed, the lobes are obovate or rhombus-shaped, gray-brown to dark green, and slightly hairy; young leaves are oval. Capsules are axillary, flattened spherical, with persistent epicalyx, covered with hairs and barbed spines, and dry, thick membranous pericarp.

[Chemical composition] The leaves contain flavonoids, phenols, amino acids and organic acids.

【Properties and flavors】 ① "Fujian Folk Herbs": "sweet, warm."

【Functions and indications】Dispel wind and detoxify. Treat dysentery, sores, wind poison, and snake bites.

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: decoct in water, 1 to 2 liang for fresh ones. For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating wind poison: 4 liang of Brahma flower and 8 liang of mutton. Add half wine and half water and simmer for three hours, take once a day. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Fujian Folk Herbs"

Through the above description, we know what Brahma flower is and what effects it has. Brahma flower has high medicinal value and is beneficial to improving the immune system. It is a worthy choice for us.