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Pholidota chinensis Lindl.
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English Name |
China Pholidota, Chinese Pholidota |
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Latin name |
Pholidota chinensis Lindl. |
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Family & Genus |
Orchidaceae, Pholidota |
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Description |
Perennial herb. Rhizomatous roots, shaggy creepers with a diameter of stem 3-8mm or larger; distance between pseudobulbs 0.5-1.5cm, narrow ovate-oblong. Pseudobulb terminal 2 leaves, obovate-elliptic or nearly oblong, length 5-22cm, width 2-6cm, with 3 veins, more or less becomes black after it dries; petiole length 1-5cm. Scape 12-38cm long, inflorescence often bent outward more or less, with several to more than 20 flowers. No bract shedding when flower withers; flower white or light yellow; middle sepal ovate-elliptic, 0.7-1cm long, navicular, lateral sepal with infertile egg-like lanceolate, 0.9-1cm long, labella nearly broadly-ovate, slightly 3-lobed, lower part with semi-spherical cyst, both sides of cyst have semicircular lateral lobes, middle lobes ovate, 4-5mm in length and width, with no appendages inside the cyst; column 4-5mm long. Capsule obovate-elliptic, 1.5-3cm long, with 6 edges, narrow wings have 3 edges; seed powder-like. Flowering: April to May, fruiting: September to January of the following year. |
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Distribution |
Growing in forests or on trees, cliffs or rocks at altitude below 1,500 (-2,500)m. Distributed in South Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Southeast Tibet. Also distributed in Vietnam and Burma. The medicinal materials are produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, Yunnan and etc. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: entire plant, or pseudobulb. Chinese name: Shixiantao. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Collected in autumn, used fresh, or heated by boiling water, then sundried. |
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Chemistry |
Antalgic, inducing sedation, hypnotic and NO-generation inhibiting. |
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Pharmacology |
Having anesthetic effect. |
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Properties & Actions |
Sweet, bitter, cool.Tonifying yin, moistening lung, clearing heat detoxifying, inducing urination and dissipating stasis. |
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Indications & Usage |
Coughing with lung heat, coughing up blood, hematemesis, vertigo, headache, nocturnal emission, swelling pain in the throat, pain from rheumatism, damp heat edema, dysentery, leucorrhea and malnutritional stagnation, scrofula, injuries from falls.Oral administration: decocting, 15-30g, double dose for fresh use. External application: appropriate amount, fresh herb triturated for application. |
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Examples |
1. Treat hemoptysis due to lung tuberculosis: China pholidota, golden-rod 30g each, helicteres angustifolia 15g, common bletilla 9g. Decoct in water and swallow.
2. Treat dizziness, headache, sequelae of cerebral concussion: China pholidota 15g, angelica 9g, egg 1. Decoct in water and swallow; China pholidota, rose Myrtle 30g each, rough gentian 15g. Decoct in water and swallow, take an appropriate amount of litoujian, pestle to remove juice, add egg white and apply externally on forehead.
3. Treat neurastheria: China pholidota, caulis polygoni multiflori 30g each. Decoct in water and swallow.
4. Treat nocturnal emission: fresh bulb of China pholidota 30g, fresh whole herb of goldensilk grass 15g. Decoct in water and swallow.
5. Treat acute tonsillitis: fresh China pholidota 30g, fresh polygonum perfoliatum 60g, fresh golden-rod 15g. Decoct in water and swallow. |
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