A daily taste of Chinese medicine woody flowers

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-29

Woody flowers introducedChinese scientific name Muxianghua.

Pinyin mǒ mǐ à hàn hàn

English name costustoot

Latin scientific name Rosa Banksiae Wt. aiton

Aliases honey incense, green wood incense, five incense, five wood incense, southern wood incense, patchouli incense, etc.

* For rosa banksiae ait, with roots and leaves as medicine.

Original form

Woody flowers are small shrub plants that climb up to 6 meters in height;Branchlets cylindrical, with short skin spines;The bark spines on the old branches are large and hard, and sometimes the branches are thornless after cultivation. leaflets 3-5, sparsely 7, with petioles 4-6 cm long;Leaflets elliptic-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 8-18 mm wide, apex acute or slightly obtuse, base nearly rounded or broadly wedge-shaped, margins tightly serrated, ** above, dark green, pale green below, midrib protrusions, pubescent along the veins;The petioles and phytoaxes have sparse pubescence and scattered small spurs;Leaves linear-lanceolate, membranous, detached, prematurely departed.

The flowers are small, many into umbels, and the flower diameter is 15-2.5 cm;The peduncle is 2-3 cm long, **sepals ovate, apex long and acuminate, entire, sepals and sepals are both outside**, the inner surface is pubescent;petals double to semi-double, white, obovate, apex rounded, base wedge-shaped;The carpel is numerous, the columella is detached, densely pubescent, much shorter than the stamens. Flowering period is from April to May.

Habitat Division

It is produced in Sichuan and Yunnan in China. Raw streams, roadsides or hillside shrubs, 500-1300 meters above sea level. It is cultivated all over the country.

Cultivation techniquesPotted plantsNutrient soil, formulated into nutrient soil, should pay attention to drainage, ventilation and the collocation of various nutrients. The ratio is garden soil: humus soil: chaff ash = 5:3:2. It is suitable for turning over pots, pruning roots, and changing soil before and after wintering every year, and increasing the pot diameter year by year, and it is better to use mud pots. [4]

Watering: It varies depending on the season, but in the winter dormant period, keep the soil moist and not dry out. In spring, the branches and leaves grow, increase the amount of water appropriately, and water 1 time a day in the morning and evening. In the peak growth season and flowering period need to increase the amount of watering, high temperature in summer, the evaporation of water increases, the plant is in a weak and semi-dormant state, the most avoid drying and dehydration, watering once a day in the morning and evening, to avoid sun exposure. Watering at high temperatures, a small amount of water should seep out from the bottom of the pot each time, indicating that it has been watered thoroughly, do not splash water on the leaves when watering to prevent disease.

Sexual taste astringent, flat.

Function: Astringent analgesia, hemostasis. Enteritis, dysentery, menorrhagia, intestinal bleeding, abdominal distension, dyspepsia, diarrhea;External use for the treatment of traumatic bleeding, boils. Excerpt from "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine".

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