【Chinese medicine name】Hubei beimu
【Aliases】 Cellar shell, plate shell, Fengjie shellfish.
Fritillariae Hupehensis Bulbus.
【Source】 Bulb of the lily family Feritillaria hupehensis Hsiao et K.C.Hsia.
【Plant form】The height of the plant is 26 to 50 cm. The bulbs are oblate round or conical, 1 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The leaves are 3 to 7 rounds, often paired or scattered, rectangular lanceolate, 7 to 13 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide, and the apex is not curled or much curved. 1 to 4 flowers, purple, with small yellow squares; 3 leaf-like bracts, 4 rare, when multi-flowered, the top flower has 3 bracts, the bottom has 1 to 2 bracts, the first end is not curled; Peduncle length l to 2 cm; Flower indumentum 6, slightly protruding on the back of the honey glandular fossa; 6 stamens, filigree with slightly small papillae; Ovary superior, 3 chambers, stigma lobe 2 to 3 mm long. The capsules are 2 to 2.5 cm long and 2.5 to 3 cm wide, with 4 to 7 mm wide wings. The flowering period is April, and the fruiting period is from May to June.
【Origin distribution】Grows on hillsides, grasslands, and is cultivated. It is found in Hubei, Sichuan and Hunan.
【Harvesting and processing】After the plants wither in early summer, they are dug, soaked in lime water, and smoked with sulfur; Or soak in clean water and dry.
【Medicinal properties】Flat spherical shape, height 0.8 ~2.2 cm, diameter 0.8 ~3.5 cm. The surface is white to light brown. The outer scaly lobes are 2 lobes, hypertrophied, slightly kidney-shaped, or very large in size, with large lobes clinging to small lobes and apically closed or cracked. Inside there are 2 to 6 scaly leaves and a shrunken stump. The inner surface is pale yellow to whitish, the base is concave in a pit shape, and the pale brown epidermis and a few whisker roots remain. Single-lobed scaly leaves are meta-treasure-shaped, 2.5 to 3.2 cm long and 1.8 to 2 cm in diameter. Brittle, cross-sectional white, pinkish. The air is slight and the taste is bitter.
【Sexual taste returns to the scriptures】 The sex is cool, and the taste is slightly bitter. It belongs to the lung meridian and the heart meridian.
【Efficacy and effect】Clear heat and dissolve phlegm, cough, loose knots. It belongs to the classification of phlegm antitussive cough and asthma medicine.
【Clinical application】Dosage 3~9 grams, powdered and taken. It is poisoned with hot sputum cough, sputum nucleus fistula, carbuncle sores.
【Main ingredients】Contains Zhejiang bei ethyl hormone, Zhejiang bei ethyl hormone, lake shell nail, lake shell methyl glycoside, lake shell ethyl hormone and other ingredients.
【Contraindications】 It should not be used with aconitum herbs such as Chuan Wu, Chuan Wu, Cao Wu, Zhi Zi and so on.