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Disporum sessile (Thunb.) D. Don
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English Name |
Fairy Bells, Common Fairybells |
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Latin name |
Disporum sessile (Thunb.) D. Don |
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Family & Genus |
Liliaceae, Disporum |
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Description |
Perennial herbs, 30-80cm tall. Rhizomes fleshy, crab shaped, about 5mm in diameter. Stem erect, upper part with fork-like branches. Leaves alternate, with short petioles or sessile; leaves thin-papery to papery, oval, ovate to lanceolate, 4-15cm long, apex suddenly acuminate or pointed, lower part lighter color, upper margin of veins papillary, with cross-veins. Flowers campanulate, yellow, light yellow, white or green yellow, 1-3 (-5) flowers borne in the top of branches; pedicels 1-2cm long; tepals 6, obovate-lanceolate; stamens inside, not out of tepals, filaments about 1.5cm long, anthers inside; style 1.5cm long. Berries oval or spherical, about 1cm in diameter, black, with 3 dark brown seeds, about 5mm in diameter. Flowering: March to June, fruiting: June to November. |
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Distribution |
Growing under forests at altitude 600-2,500m or in thickets. Distributed in East, South-central and Southwest China, Hebei, Shaanxi, Taiwan and etc. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: roots and rhizome. Chinese name: Zhulinxiao. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Excavated summer and autumn, washed, used fresh or sundried. |
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Pharmacology |
Cardiotonic. |
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Properties & Actions |
Sweet, tasteless, neutral.Moistening the lung for suppressing cough, invigorating spleen for dispersing food, soothing the sinews and quickening the meridians and clearing heat-toxin. |
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Indications & Usage |
Coughing with lung heat, tuberculous empsyxis, dyspepsia and feeling of fullness, Rheumatic arthralgia, pain in loin and legs, fractures, burns and scalding injuries.Oral administration: decocting, 9-15g. External application: appropriate amount; fresh products, smashed for application; prepared ointment or powered for application after mixed with fluid. |
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Examples |
1. Cough with blood: blackend mosquitotrap 15g, steam with crystal sugar and eat.
2. Weakness and urorrhea after diseases: blackend mosquitotrap 30g, purple bergenia 30g, christina loosestrife 30g. Stew with meat and eat. |
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