Top Quality Pseudostellariae Radix

It's a perennial plant, 15 to 20 centimeters high. Tuberous roots long fusiform, White, slightly grayish yellow. Stems erect, solitary, covered with 2 rows of short hairs. Lower leaves often 1-2 pairs, Leaf Blade oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base attenuate long-stalked, upper leaves 2-3 pairs, leaf blade broadly ovate or Rhombic-ovate, 3-6 cm long, 2-17-20 mm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate, upper glabrous, underside sparsely pilose along veins. Flowers 1-3, axillary or cymose; pedicel 1-2 cm, sometimes up to 4 cm, pubescent; sepals 5, narrowly Lanceolate, Ca. 5 mm, apex acuminate, outside and margin sparsely pilose; Petals 5, White, oblong or obovate, 7-8 mm long, apex 2-lobed; Stamens 10, shorter than petals; ovary ovate, style 3, slightly longer than stamens; stigma capitate. Cleistogamous flowers shortly pedicellate; sepals sparsely multicellular hairy. Capsule broadly ovoid, containing a few seeds, undivided or 3-valved at tip; seeds Brown, Oblate, ca. 1.5 mm long, with verrucose protuberances. Flowering 4-7 months, fruiting 7-8 months.

It likes to grow in a warm and humid environment, afraid of high temperature, more than 30 °c growth and development stopped. Afraid of strong light exposure, easy to die under the hot sun, more cold. Can Survive the winter at-17 °C. It can also germinate and take root at low temperature. It grows well under the condition of shade and damp, likes fertile and loose, contains rich humus soil, and grows well in sandy soil. Low waterlogged land, clay soil, solid soil, poor drainage, soil with little humus. The poor soil does not grow well.

Functional Indications: Tonic Lung, Jian Card. For cough due to lung deficiency, lack of food due to spleen deficiency, palpitation due to sweating and mental fatigue. Benefit Qi and strengthen spleen, generate body fluid and moisten lung. For Spleen weakness, post-disease weakness, deficiency of Qi and Yin, thirst from sweat, lung noise dry cough.

PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECTS: The body has the role of adaptation to the original, that is, to enhance the body's ability to defend against various harmful stimuli. Also can enhance the material metabolism in the human body.