Fritillaria ussuriensis Maxim .

FRITILLARIA USSURIENSIS. It is the fritillary of Liliaceae. Dried Bulb. Dig In spring, remove Husk, fibrous root and silt, dry in the sun or at low temperature. Distributed in the northeast of China. It has the effect of clearing heat and moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. For Lung Heat Dry cough, dry cough less sputum, yin deficiency cough, expectoration with blood.

Features: FRITILLARIA is perennial plant, up to 1 m high; BULB oblate, with 2 ~ 3 thick scales, White, sometimes surrounded by a few small bulbs, the base of a cluster of fibrous roots. Stem erect, smooth. The lower leaves are usually whorled, the upper leaves opposite or alternate, LINEAR TO LANCEOLATE, 4 ~ 14 cm long, 2 ~ 6 mm wide, the upper leaf apex of the stem curly tendrils. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, pendulous, with 1-3 flowers, apical flowers with 4-6 leaflike bracts; bracts 7-10 cm long, 11 mm wide, apex curly; flowers campanulate, tepals 6, outside dirty purple, inside with nearly square yellow spots, free, outer perianth segments oblong-obovate, Ca. 3.5 cm long, Ca. 1.5 cm wide; inner perianth segments oblong-elliptic; nectaries orbicular, nectaries below perianth, prominent on abaxial surface of perianth; stamens 6, shorter than perianth segments, filaments papillose, anthers inserted near base; to Ovary Prismatic, style with papillose process, stigma 3-lobed. CUCURBITA fruit broadly obovate, with 6 ribs, many seeded. Species subsemiorbicular, margin winged.

Growth Environment: FRITILLARIA USSURIENSIS is an early spring plant, with small bulbs, few fibrous roots and poor absorption of fertilizer, while the above-ground part only grows for 55 ~ 60 days, so it is suitable for growing in the soil with sufficient water and fertilizer and rich humus. Prefer a cool, moist climate. From late March to early April, the seedlings come out from the top of the freeze and blossom in May. The soil temperature was from 2 °C to 4 °C, and the plant grew vigorously at 13 °C to 16 °C. However, it is not resistant to high temperature. If the temperature exceeds 28 °C ~ 30 °C and the soil temperature is above 20 °c, the growth is restrained. Therefore, the aboveground part of the plant will wither from late May to June, and the underground bulbs will enter a dormant state, and begin to sprout again in mid and late August, they begin to grow on the scales. In early and Middle September, the shellfish gradually increased until the ice, and then went into hibernation. In the spring of the following year.

Function Indications: Qingre Runfei; expectorant cough. Main Lung Heat and dry cough; dry cough with little phlegm; Yin deficiency and fatigue; cough with sputum and blood; Scrofula