Alangium flower

[Source] from the "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Chi"

[Pinyin] Bā Jiǎo Fēnɡ Huā

【English name】 Chinese Alangium Flower

[Alias​​] ox tail flower

[Source]
Medicine-based source: alangium melon plants alangium and wooden flowers.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Alangium chinense (Lour) Harms. Alangium platanifolium (Sieb. Et Zucc.) Harms.
Harvesting and Storage 5-July flowers; dried

[Original form] deciduous trees or shrubs, the high 3-5m. Branchlets slightly zigzag, purple green shoots; buds conical, born within the petiole base. Leaves alternate; petiole length 2.5-3.5cm; leaf paper, nearly round or oval-shaped, oval, sharp or printed on the top tip, base wide or plant-shaped wedge, thin heart-shaped, asymmetry, long 13 - 19 (-26) cm, width 9-15 (-22) cm, not split or 3-7 (-9) lobed, lobes short sharp or blunt tip, leaves glabrous above, below vein axillary plexiform hair, basal veins 3-5 (-7), as palmate, lateral veins 3-5 pairs. Cymes axillary, with 7-30 (-50) flowers, pedicels 5-15mm; small bracts linear or lanceolate, often caducous; corolla cylindrical, long 1-1.5cm; calyx tip divided into 6 -8 pieces of the dentate sepals; petals 6-8, linear, 1-1.5cm, first white, later become yellow, Department of Basic bonding, the upper part of flowering Zheng; stamens and petals with the number and nearly as long; faceplate nearly spherical 'ovary 2 rooms, stigma head-like, often 2-4 split. Drupe oval, about 5-7mm, diameter 5-8mm, apex accommodation deposit of calyx teeth and chrysanthemum seeds 1. Flowering from May to July and September-October, the fruit from July to October. The difference between species and alangium as: leaves nearly round, 3-5 does not split or crack, crack 7 thin, petiole 3.5-5cm; flowers composed of 1-7 flowers axillary cymes, petals long 2.5-3.5 cm; drugs such as silk and anther length; oval stone long, long 8-12mm. Flowering from March to July, the fruit from July to September.

[Taste] Weixin; natured; small drug

】 【Go through the liver; stomach

【Indications】 scattered wind; qi; pain. Main head wind headache; abdominal pain

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,3-10g; or powder.

[Discussion of] each, "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Chi": rule head wind pain and abdominal fullness. Into powder, steamed egg served.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"
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