Ajugamultiflora, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the whole plant of Ajugamultiflora Bunge, a member of the Lamiaceae family. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, and other regions. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and stopping bleeding. It is commonly used to treat coughs caused by lung heat, hemoptysis, and abscesses and swellings caused by toxins.
Many-flowered Ajuga
Ajugamultiflora, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the whole plant of Ajugamultiflora Bunge, a member of the Lamiaceae family. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, and other regions. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and stopping bleeding. It is commonly used to treat coughs caused by lung heat, hemoptysis, and abscesses and swellings caused by toxins.
Chinese Name : 多花筋骨草
Nature, Flavor & Meridian Tropism : Bitter in taste, cold in nature. Enters the Lung, Large Intestine, Stomach, and Liver meridians
Benefits & Efficacy
Benefits
Clears heat and detoxifies; stops bleeding.
Indications
Coughs due to lung heat, hemoptysis, and abscesses and swellings caused by toxins.
Usage and Dosage
Internal use: Decocted as a soup, 6–9 g. External use: Apply an appropriate amount after pounding into a paste.
Precautions
Not suitable for individuals with spleen and stomach deficiency-cold.
Relevant Discussions
*Compendium of Medicinal Plants of Inner Mongolia*: “Clears heat, detoxifies, and stops bleeding. Treats coughs due to lung heat, hemoptysis, and abscesses, boils, and toxic swellings.”
Applications
Notes
~In North Korea, the whole plant is used as a diuretic.~~
Processing & Preparation
Harvesting & Processing
Harvest during flowering in April–May; wash thoroughly and sun-dry.
Crude Drug Identification
Botanical Information
Botanical Classification
Polygonum multiflorum, a plant of the Lamiaceae family.
Morphological Characteristics
A perennial herb, 6–20 cm tall. The stem is erect, unbranched, quadrangular, and densely covered with grayish-white, cottony, long, soft hairs. Leaves are opposite;basal leaves are petiolate, with petioles 0.7–2 cm long; upper stem leaves are sessile; leaf blades are elliptic-oblong or elliptic-ovate, 1.5–4 cm long and 1–1.5 cm wide, with a blunt or slightly acute apex, a wedge-shaped base extending downward to clasp the stem, densely covered with soft, rough, appressed hairs on the upper surface and sparsely so on the lower surface, and margins bearing indistinct wavy teeth.Whorled inflorescences gradually converge upward from the middle of the stem, forming a dense spicate corymb at the apex; bracts are leaf-like, gradually decreasing in size toward the apex, and are lanceolate or ovate;the calyx is broadly campanulate, covered externally with cottony, long soft hairs; the calyx teeth are 5, regular; the corolla is bluish-purple or blue, with a ring of hairs on the inner surface near the base; the corolla is bilabiate, with a short, erect upper lip that is 2-lobed, and an elongated, broad lower lip that is 3-lobed, the central lobe fan-shaped and the lateral lobes oblong; there are 4 stamens, with two stronger ones;The style extends beyond the stamens and is shallowly bifid at the apex; the disk is annular. The nutlets are obovate-trigonal, with reticulate wrinkles on the back and a single large umbilicus on the ventral surface, extending to two-thirds of the ventral length. Flowering occurs from April to May, and fruiting from May to June.
Distribution Area
Distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, and other areas.