Isodon rubescens - Blushred Isodon

Blushred Isodon is a shrub 50-100 cm. Flowers are light purple 7-12 mm, sometimes about 5 mm in pistillate flowers, velvet-hairy, glandular, tube 3.5-5 mm. Flowers are two-lipped, the upper lip having four clefts that are recurved, the lower lip being entire and concave. Stamens and style protrude out. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, 2.5-3 mm, densely gray velvet-hairy, glandular, prominently reddish, 10-veined, slightly 2-lipped; teeth ovate-triangular, about 1/2 as long as sepal-cup; fruiting sepal-cup dilated, 4-5 mm, tubular-bell-shaped, slightly curved. Flowers are borne in panicles at branch-ends, narrow, 6-15 cm, densely velvet-hairy; cymes stalked, 3-5-flowered. Floral leaves are gradually reduced toward tip, mostly shorter than cymes. Stems numerous, erect, brownish gray, hairless, much branched at tip; branchlets reddish, densely woolly. Leaf-stalks are 1-3.5 cm; leaf blade ovate to rhombic-ovate, 2-6 x 1.3-3 cm, membranous to papery, base broadly wedge-shaped, margin coarsely rounded toothed-sawtoothed, tip pointed to tapering; lateral veins 3- or 4-paired, reddish. Nutlets are brownish, triquetrous, ovoid, about 1.3 mm, hairless. Flowering: July-October.
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The basic method for dried herbs and flower is, take 2-3 tablespoons of dried herb in a cup or teapot. Pour hot water over it and cover it with lid for 10-30 minutes. Hot water is needed to draw out the antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins, flavonoids and volatile oils from the botanicals. Strain and squeeze out as much as liquid as possible and consume.