Chinese herbal medicine Buddha Belly Flower, the root or whole plant of the plant Zhejiang and Anhui Crude Tube, can treat muscle and bone pain. Now let's take a closer look at what Buddha Belly Flower is.
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【Treatment of Muscle and Bone Pain with Buddha Belly Flower】
Treatment of fatigue and muscle and bone pain: 12-15g of Buddha Belly Flower root. Decoction, mixed with yellow wine and brown sugar for consumption.
Buddha Belly Flower is mainly used to dispel wind and relieve surface; promote blood circulation and dissolve abscesses. It is used for cold and headache; fatigue; muscle and bone pain; abscesses; unknown swelling and toxicity.
The whole plant is bitter and slightly cold. It clears heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, and relieves pain. It is used for snake bites.
Internal use: decoction, 10-15g. External use: appropriate amount of fresh product, crush and apply; or extract juice for application.
【What is Buddha Belly Flower?】
Buddha Belly Flower, Zhejiang and Anhui Crude Tube, is a perennial herb. The leaves are all basal; leaf stalks are 1.2-4cm long, covered with brownish hairs; leaf blades are elliptical or narrowly elliptical, 4-10cm long, 2-2.5cm wide, blunt at the apex, wide-wedge-shaped at the base, slightly asymmetric, with serrations on the edges, densely covered with short hairs on the upper surface, and rust-colored hairs along the leaf veins on the lower surface, sparsely covered with short hairs elsewhere.
There are 2-4 flower stems, 10-16cm tall; umbel inflorescence branches once or twice, each inflorescence has 1-5 flowers; inflorescence stalk is 11-17cm long, sparsely covered with rust-colored hairs; bracts are 2, narrowly inverted ovate to linear-lanceolate, hairy; calyx is about 1cm long, 5-lobed to the base, densely covered with rust-colored hairs on the outside.
The corolla is purple-red, about 4cm long, sparsely covered with short hairs on the outside, with purple spots on the inside, swollen below, upper lip 2-lobed, lobes rounded, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes oblong; stamens 4, anthers paired; disc ring-shaped; ovary narrow-linear, about 9mm long, stigma short, covered with tiny hairs.
The capsule is inverted lanceolate, 4.5-7cm long, with a short pointed tip at the apex. The seeds are numerous, small, and smooth on the surface. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from October to November.
