Chinese Herbal Medicine Huanglians

"Shennong Herbal reading": Huang couldn't breathe cold, winter cold the water and gas of the sky, into the foot of the yin and kidney Sutra, taste bitter non-toxic, to the southern fire flavor, start with less yin heart, gas and water, a matter of the same, so can be in addition to water and fire chaos, and hot and humid disease.

Huanglian was founded in the "Shennong Herbal Sutra", listed as the top. 

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Its root beads and color yellow, hence the name."

 "Since ancient times, Sichuan is considered to be the main source of production, such as" The famous doctor "said:" Huanglian Raw Lu Yang and Shu County Dashan, February August. "

 "and Lu Yang and Shu County all refer to Sichuan. In addition, herbal records in the east of the Yangtze River and Hunan, Anhui Provinces are also produced, such as Tang Herbal Records: "Shu dao thick, very bitter, thirst for the most, Jiangdong (that is, the east of the Yangtze River) festival such as Lianzhu, dysentery stare, this state (that is, now Hunan Li County) more than the winner." 

"Refer to the Zhenghe of the" Lizhou Huanglian "and" Xuanzhou (now Anhui Xuancheng) Huanglian "and the Huanglian drawings in the" plant nominal map ", especially the latter two can be clearly identified as the genus Huanglian (coptis) plants. Therefore, we can think that China since ancient times in Sichuan area of Huanglian C. 

Chinensis and the short calyx Huanglian C in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin. chinensis var. brevisepala is also medicinal.