1. Aliases

Thousand taels of gold, dried chicken tendons.
2. Plant morphology
Perennial evergreen herbaceous plant with a height of 50-80 centimeters. The rhizome is nodular, thick and short. The leaves are leathery, and the leaflets are lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate. They are 9-23 centimeters long and 1.8-4.5 centimeters wide, with a pubescent or hairless dorsal surface. The leaf surface is hairless, and the apex is gradually pointed or elongated. The edges have thorny teeth. The base is heart-shaped, with equal circular lobes at the base of the terminal leaflets. The lobes at the base of the lateral leaflets are skewed, with small and circular inner lobes and large triangular and gradually pointed outer lobes. The upper part is hairless, and the back is covered with hirsute or bald leaves. The leaf edge has thorny serrations, and the stem has 2 opposite leaves.
The panicle is terminal, 15-30 cm long, occasionally up to 50 cm long, with many (25-70) flowers. The inflorescence axis is hairless, the peduncle is 1-2 cm long, sparsely glandular hairy or hairless, and the flowers are light yellow. Choose a diameter of 3.5 centimeters, with 2 rounds of sepals. The outer sepals are nearly circular, 2-5 millimeters long and 1.5-3 millimeters wide. The inner sepals are wide elliptical, 3-15 millimeters long and 1.5-8 millimeters wide.
The apex is blunt, the petals are angular and pale yellow in color. Curved inward, shallow cup-shaped at the base. Sometimes purple at the base, longer than the inner sepals, 0.6-2 centimeters in length. The stamen is about 5 millimeters long, the filament is 1-1.5 millimeters long, the anther is about 4 millimeters long, the petals are cracked, the lobes are rolled outward, the pistil is about 5 millimeters long, the ovary is obliquely cylindrical, and contains 10-12 ovules. The capsule is about 1.5 centimeters long. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruiting period is from May to June.
3. Origin distribution
Born in understory, shrubs, grass or crevices at an altitude of 300-1700 meters. Distributed in Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou.
4. Harvesting and processing
Harvest when the stems and leaves are lush in summer and autumn, remove impurities, and dry in the sun or shade.
5. Characteristics of medicinal herbs
The compound leaves consist of two or three leaflets, with small leaflets lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, measuring 9-23 centimeters in length and 1.8-4.5 centimeters in width. The apex is gradually pointed or elongated, and the edges are serrated. The basal lobes of lateral leaflets are oblique, with small, circular inner lobes and large, triangular, and gradually pointed outer lobes. The lower surface is covered with fluff or baldness. Near leather texture. Mild qi, slightly bitter taste.
6. Nature, taste, and meridian tropism
Warm in nature, with a spicy and sweet taste. Return to the liver and kidney meridians.
7. Effect and function
Tonify kidney yang, strengthen muscles and bones, and dispel wind and dampness. A Yang tonifying medicine belonging to the subcategory of tonifying deficiency medicine.
8. Clinical applications
Dosage of 3-9 grams, decoct soup and take. Used to treat kidney yang deficiency and decline, impotence and nocturnal emission, muscle and bone weakness, rheumatic pain, numbness and contracture, menopausal dizziness.
9. Pharmacological research
Gastric administration of Wushan Epimedium polysaccharide multiphase liposomes can enhance the antioxidant capacity of red blood cells and liver tissue in elderly mice, enhance the learning and memory behavior of elderly male rats and mice, and resist the activity of cholinesterase in the brain and whole blood of elderly mice.
10. Chemical composition
Partially containing flavonoid components: icariin glycosides and icariin glycosides from Wushan icarii, icariin I, II, VI, icariin, quercetin-3-galactoside, quercetin-3-rhamnoside, icariin, 8-isopentenyl kaempferol-4 '- methoxy-3- [xylose (1-4) rhamnoside] -7-glucoside; In addition, it also contains inorganic elements such as calcium.
11. Taboos for use
Those who are yin deficient and prone to fire are prohibited from wearing.
12. Compatibility prescription
Treatment for impotence: 9g of Wushan Epimedium and 24g of Tuding Gui. 30 grams of fresh Huanghua Yuanzhi. 60 grams of fresh cherry blossoms. Boiled in water. (Fujian Pharmacopoeia)
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