Family Name | Arecaceae |
Scientific name | Livistona chinensis |
Common name | Chinese fan palm, Fountain palm |
Growth habit | Cultivated by houses and gardens |
Leaf | Leaves broad kidney shaped fan-shaped. palmately parted to the middle |
Flower | Flowers small, bisexual, yellowish green Inflorescence paniculate,sturdy |
Fruit | Drupe elliptic, like olive, black brown |
More to learn | Its leaves can be made to fans, coat and brooms |
Properties | Seeds: sweet, bitter, neutral, and mild-toxic. Leaves: sweet, harsh, neutral. Root: sweet, bitter, harsh, cool. Seeds: promoting blood circulation for eliminating stasis, softening and dissipating binds. Leaves: astringency and relieving hemorrhage, hidroschesis. Roots: suppressing pains and calming panting |
Treats | Seeds: and chronic hepatitis, abdominal mass and food accumulation Leaves: coughing up blood, traumatic hemorrhage, spontaneous perspiration, night sweat...etc. Root: pain, asthma |
Reference | School of Chinese Medicine 中華苗木網 Digital Taiwan wikipedia |