What are the effects of Panlongcao?

Traditional Chinese medicine has been very famous in our country since ancient times. If you are more familiar with Chinese medicinal materials, you must have heard of Panlongcao. Many Chinese patent medicines contain this ingredient. However, for some friends who are not very familiar with traditional Chinese medicine, they don’t know what Panlongcao is. It doesn’t matter, today I will briefly introduce to you the practical effects of Panlongcao.

【Nature and flavor】Spicy; slightly bitter; warm

【Meridian】Lung; Stomach

【Functions and indications】Dispel wind and cold; detoxify and relieve pain. Mainly used for colds, stomachaches, toothaches, injuries from falls, and snake bites

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 3-6g. For external use: take appropriate amount, mash the fresh grass and apply it; or dry it and grind it into powder and sprinkle it.

The plant is 13-30 cm tall. The roots are several, finger-shaped, fleshy, and clustered at the base of the stem. The stem is short, with 2-5 leaves near the base. The leaf blade is broadly linear or broadly linear-lanceolate, rarely narrowly oblong, erect and spreading, 3-10 cm long, often 5-10 mm wide, acute or acuminate at apex, narrowed at base into a petiolate-amplexicaulous sheath. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Flowering period is July-August.

Morphological characteristics

1. Mountain Sagittaria

Perennial herb. The rhizome is short. The petiole is 15-25cm long; the bud leaf is ovate with dense eyelashes on the edge; the leaf blade is oblong, broadly ovate or nearly triangular ovate, 15-25cm long, 11-14cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex, ear-shaped or ear-shaped at the base, dark green on the upper side with occasional cloud spots, and initially with short hairs on the lower side, which then gradually fall off. Flowers are solitary, with two flowers per branch, purple-green, 2.5-3cm in diameter; pedicels are about 1.5cm long, rarely

6cm; perianth tube cylindrical, 1.5-2.5cm long, constricted at the throat, membranous ring about 2mm wide, inner wall with longitudinal ridges, perianth lobes ovate-reniform, with papillary wrinkles at the base; connective protruding, cone-pointed or short-tongued; ovary semi-inferior, style free, 2-lobed at the apex, stigma lateral. Capsule oval, 10-15mm in diameter. The flowering period is from November to March of the following year.

2. Red gold earrings

Perennial herb. The rhizome is horizontal, up to 20 cm long, with internodes up to 8 cm long. The leaves are large, with blades in long ovate, triangular ovate or narrow ovate, 13-21cm long, 6.5-13cm wide, with long acuminate or acuminate apex, auriculate or nearly halberd-shaped base, lobes on both sides usually spreading outward, glabrous above, initially hairy along the veins below, then gradually falling off, with obvious reticulate veins; petiole 8-23cm long; bud leaves ovate-lanceolate, with densely eyelashes on the edges. The flowers are green-purple, about 4cm in diameter; the pedicels are 3-5cm long; the perianth tube is long tubular, 3-5cm long, slightly constricted above the middle and then expanded outwards, often bent to one side, the petals are broadly ovate, the tip and edges are purple-green, there is a semicircular purple part in the middle, below which are multiple rows of flat papillae, which extend down into the tube in sparse longitudinal rows, and are ridge-like wrinkles at the base of the tube; the connective

Protruding, short tongue-shaped; ovary subinferior, styles 6, apex bifurcated

Shape, stigma ovate, lateral. Flowering period is from February to May.

Characteristics

There are usually two flowers on each pedicel, which are gray-brown and the perianth lobes mostly fall off. It has a fragrant aroma and a spicy and numbing taste.