North Lappula

[Pinyin] Běi Hè Shī

[English name] FRUCTUS CARPESII

[Source] This product Compositae days were fine Carpesium abrotanoides L. dry ripe fruit. Fall harvest mature fruit, dried, remove the impurities.

[Character] of the product cylindrical, small, long 3 ~ 4mm, diameter less than 1mm. Surface brown or dark brown, with the majority of vertical edges. Contraction was small beak-like top, white tip extended into the ring; the other end slightly pointed, with a raw trace. Peel thin, fibrous, thin, transparent kind of Pifei, cotyledons 2, white, slightly oily. Gas-specific, slightly bitter taste.

[Identification] cross-section of the product: an exocarp cells, inclusive of calcium oxalate crystal column. Mesocarp parenchyma cells in series, brown, cell shrinkage, unclear boundaries, while the ridges at a fiber bundle, composed of dozens of fibers, fiber wall thickness, wood. Endocarp cells 1, dark brown. Testa cells flat, there are remnants of endosperm; embryo and aleurone parenchyma cells filled with fat droplets, the outer cotyledon cells contain tiny calcium oxalate crystals.

[] Taste bitter, flat; a small drug.

】 【Go through the spleen and stomach.

【Indications】 insecticide negatively. For roundworm, pinworm, taeniasis, parasitic diseases, abdominal pain, children Malnutrition.

Dosage 3 ~ 9g.

【Storage】 Store in cool dry place.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

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