Radix Platycodon grandiflorum Platycodon grandiflorus Jacq A DC root traditional chinese herb Jie geng

Product Description

Basic info:
Radix Platycodonis,platycodon root,Chinese bellflower,Japanese bellflower

Platycodon grandiflorum dried root

Chinese name:Jie geng

Herb property:bitter,pungent,mild

Function:Root Grinding, decoction; Taken orally for inflammation, cough

• Sulphate free
• New crops
• Herbs used in China for years
• Best prices for new customers
• Dried well
• Soon delivery
• Small quantity available

Classic prescription:

Name of the prescription:Jie Geng Ban Xia Tang

Herbs used in the prescription:Radix Platycodon grandiflorum 300g (crushed,fry for a while), Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) root 300g (wash 7 times by boiling water, and processed by ginger juice);  Dried tangerine &orange peel 300g;  immature bitter orange 150g (stir-baking with bran to light yellow )

Treat for :Eliminate phlegm and descending Qi,disintegrate masses.

Plant description:

Platycodon grandiflorus (Jacquin) A. Candolle Monogr. Campan. 125. 1830.
jie geng
Campanula grandiflora Jacquin, Hort. Bot. Vindob. 3: 4. 1776; C. glauca Thunberg; Platycodon autumnalis Decaisne; P. chinensis Lindley & Paxton; P. glaucus (Thunberg) Nakai; P. sinensis Lemaire.

Stems 20-120 cm tall, usually glabrous, rarely densely puberulent, simple, rarely branched above. Leaf blade adaxially green, ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, 2-7 × 0.5-3.5 cm, abaxially glabrous (rarely puberulent along veins) and glaucous, adaxially glabrous, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin serrate, apex acute or acuminate. Hypanthium hemispherical, obovoid, or obconic, rarely campanulate, glaucous. Calyx lobes triangular or narrowly triangular, sometimes toothlike. Corolla blue or purple (rarely pink or white), 1.5-4.5 cm. Capsule globose, obconic, or obovoid, 0.7-2.5 × 0.7-1.5 cm. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 18, 36.

Sunny herb communities, thickets, rarely in forests; below 2000 m. Anhui, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, N Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, E Sichuan (west to Pingwu and Liangshan), SE Yunnan (Mengzi, Wenshan, Yanshan), Zhejiang [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East, SE Siberia); widely cultivated elsewhere].