250g, Bai Mei Hua, White plum blossom, Tcm Herbal

White plum blossom

Name of medicine: white plum blossom

Pinyin: Bái Méi Huā

Alias: green calyx plum ("outline"), green plum ("herbs").

Source: "outline"

Source for the rosewood plum buds. 1 ~ 2 months to collect budding buds, stalls, dried. Rain can be used charcoal drying.

Traits dry buds, was spherical, 4 to 8 mm in diameter, the base often with a small stems. Bracts 3 to 4 layers, brown scales. Bracts with sepals 5, pale brown, microstrip green, ovoid, hull-like arrangement, basal and receptive healing. Petals 5 or mostly, white or yellowish white, clinging tightly. The petals contain many yellow filamentous stamens. The center has a pistil, ovary ovate and slender style. Light weight. Fragrant, tasteless and astringent. To flowers uniform net, complete, buds are not, calyx green flowers white, smell fragrance is better. Main production in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

Corolla red, known as red plum blossom, similar to white plum blossom, but slightly larger than white plum, corolla pale red, heavy petals, calyx reddish brown. Main production in Sichuan, Hubei and other places. But the medicinal to white plum-based, red plum is less used.

Chemical composition: buds containing volatile oil, mainly benzaldehyde, isobutyrolol, benzoic acid.

Sexual taste: sour, flat.

① "outline": "slightly acidic, astringent, non-toxic."

② "Baicao mirror": "cold."

③ "food taboo": "taste acid, astringent, nature."

④ "Pieces of new reference": "bitter sweet."

Meridian "Materia Medica and then": "into the liver, lung two by."

Indications: Shugan, and stomach, phlegm. Governance Mei nuclear gas, liver and stomach pain, loss of appetite, dizziness, scrofula.

① "Materia Medica original": "Qing head head, Lee lung gas, to sputum Yongzhi heat."

② "Baicao mirror": "appetizers scattered Yu. Porridge food, to help Qingyang of the gas rise."

③ "Outline": "Anshen set the soul, solution pox poison."

④ "Pieces of new ginseng": "Hongmeihua Qinggan Jieyu, governance head headache; green calyx gray liver and stomach, only epigastric pain, dizziness, into the diet."

Dosage: Oral: Jiantang, 0.8 ~ 1.5 money; or into the pills, scattered. Topical: Apply.

Compound:

① cure pharyngeal infarct (but no positive signs): green calyx plum two money, orange cake two. Decoction. (Su "Chinese herbal medicine manual")

② treatment on the lips on the sore: white plum petals, such as bleeding at the beginning of bleeding. ("Chishui Xuanzhu")

③ governance M. scrofula: eggs open a hole, into the green calyx plum will open seven, sealing, rice steaming, to plum eggs, a day, shares seven days. ("Outline")

④ pre-thin pox: the annual morning of the twelfth lunar month, picking dew green calyx Meridian 100, with sugar, pound into small cake, so that food. (Wang Gui Gui "no drug recipe")

⑤ governance gangster has not been out, can not afford hair, hidden in the skin, and treatment of Ma Zheng disease: plum one or two, peach kernel, cinnabar, licorice two money, loofah five money. For the end, each serving five points, under the Sen soup. ("Chishui Xuanzhu")

Product basic attributes
Shelf Life:	365 days
Storage:	Dry storage, low temperature refrigeration
Organic or inorganic	organic