本品为唇形科(Labiatae)植物荆芥(SchizOnepeta Tenuifolia Brig)的干燥花穗,莖、叶供药用。荆芥在本草經列为上品,屬芳草类,本省主產于吉安,吉水、修水。其次分宜、瑞金、宜春、永丰、泰和等地也有出産,多数家种,少数山野自生,每年出產量多运往粤桂一帶銷售。〔植物形态〕一年生草本,莖的上部多分枝,方柱形,四角稜狀。叶对生,生于花輪下的叶長椭圓形或綫形,中部的叶羽狀深裂,長橢圆形,裂片全綠,背面灰綠色,老叶紫紅色。夏季頂端生多数小唇形花,花冠淡紅紫色,下部呈管狀,上部露出 This product is the dried flowering spikes, stems and leaves of the Labiatae plant Nepeta (Schiz Onepeta Tenuifolia Brig). Nepeta is classified as top grade in the Chinese herbal medicine and belongs to the grass. The province’s main production is in Ji’an, Jishui, and Xiushui. Followed by Fenyi, Ruijin, Yichun, Yongfeng, Taihe and other places also produce, most of the family species, a small number of mountains self-produced, the annual output of more than shipped to sell along the Guangdong-Guangxi area. [Plant form] Annual herb, the upper part of the stem more branched, square columnar, quadrangular prismatic. Leaves opposite, born in the flower wheel under the leaves long oval or linear, the middle of the leaves, deep-splitting, long oval, lobes all green, gray-green back, the old leaves purple. Most small lip flowers at the top of the summer, the corolla is reddish purple, the lower part is tubular and the upper part is exposed