Da Guolu Huang, the whole plant of the spring flower family plant Lethuroides peltata, is distributed in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. It has the effects of dispersing wind, clearing heat, and detoxifying. It is commonly used for wind-heat cough, sore throat, and hot toxic ulcers and boils.
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Da Guolu Huang has the effects of dispersing wind, clearing heat, and detoxifying. It is commonly used for wind-heat cough, sore throat, and hot toxic ulcers and boils.
"Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "Disperses wind, clears heat, and transforms phlegm. It treats wind-heat sore throat, cough, bloody stools, sinking bloating, hard abdominal pain, and hot toxic ulcers."
Da Guolu Huang is an annual or perennial herb, 10-30 cm tall. The whole plant is densely covered with white or brown adherent multicellular glandular hairs.
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The stem is obliquely upward, with a few nodes lying flat at the base, and slender adventitious roots grow on the nodes, reddish-brown, and branched. The leaves are opposite, becoming dense at the top; the leaf blades are papery;
Broadly heart-shaped or ovate, lanceolate, 3-5.5 cm long, entire, with cilia and small glandular dots, dark green on the upper side, and flesh-red on the lower side.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils at the top of the branches, densely arranged in a head shape; the bracts are elliptical and leaf-like; the calyx is deeply divided into 5 lobes, and the lobes are lanceolate;
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The corolla is yellow, tubular at the base, and 5-lobed at the apex; there are 5 stamens, the filaments are divided below and fused above; the ovary is superior, ovate, and the stigma is head-shaped.
The capsule is spherical, brown, with persistent calyx at the base; the seeds are nearly circular. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is from June to July. Da Guolu Huang grows in moist roadside grasslands in low mountains and hills. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guangxi, and other places.
