Melaleuca leaf

[Source] from the "Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook."

[Pinyin] Bái Qiān Cénɡ Yè

[English name] Cajeputtree Leaf, Leaf of Cajeputtree, leaf of Punetree

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Myrtaceae Melaleuca plant material white one thousand leaves.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Melaleuca leucadendra L. [Myrtus leucadendra Linn.]
Harvesting and storage: year-round mining, dry.

[Form of] the original tree, up to 18m. Bark gray, thick, soft, thin shape was peeling off. Twigs gray. Leaves alternate; petiole very short; blade coriaceous, lanceolate or narrowly oblong, long 4-10cm, width of 1-2cm, both ends of the tip, entire margin, oil glands and more aroma; basal veins 3 - 7. Flowers white, in dense spikes into the top branches, rachis often have short hair; calyx tube ovoid, 3mm, hairy or glabrous, calyx teeth 5, round, about 1mm; petals 5, ovate, length 2-3mm, Width 3mm; stamens many, green and white with a length of about 1cm, usually 5-8 pieces into bundles, anthers back the health, medicine room parallel to the longitudinal; ovary inferior, connate with the calyx tube, apex prominent , 3 rooms, style linear, slightly longer than the stamens, stigma much expanded. Capsule nearly spherical, diameter 5-7mm, nearly triangular seeds. Flowering several times a year.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in the more dry sand, mostly for cultivation.
Resource distribution: Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan and Guangxi are cultivated. Country of Origin Australia.

[Cultivation]
Negative biological characteristics of species, like warm and humid environment, requires plenty of sunshine, strong adaptability, the ability of high temperature and drought, barren soil thin, light cream and also the short-term resistance around 0 ℃ low temperature. Strict requirements on the soil.
Cultivation techniques using seed propagation, transplanting seedlings. Late September to next March, when the skin turns from red to brown, dark gray or brown when the fruit-bearing branch off the mat with a thin film at the care home without air exposure 2-3d, seeds and fruit cracking prolapse blighted grain. Seed broadcast with on-demand, can also dry bags hidden reserve. 2 months, late planting seedlings. As the tiny seed, grain weight only 0.1g, so sowing the requirements of careful preparation, the surface soil to be sieved, pressed flat, pouring enough water, plant seeds, cover the films, the average daily temperature above 10 ℃, 5-6d after sowing can be germination. When the height 6-8cm, close to the hard leathery leaves, may change bed nursery. For nursery bed when Shizujifei topdressing after 1-3 times per month. When the height 1.2m when planted. Planting hole specifications for length, width, depth, each of 40cm.
Field management in each of three years before the rainy season in spring or loosen the soil weed 2-3 times. Combination of organic fertilizer in early spring weeding.
Pest control root rot, hot and rainy season, easy to disease, with 50% tuzet 1000 times injection.

Chemical Composition】 【leaf volatile oil containing 1% -1.5%, the main component of cineole (cineole), accounting for 50% -65%, followed by terpineol (terpineol), aldehydes, etc. [1].

Pharmacological effects decoction with a flat disk diffusion method against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli was inhibited.

[Taste] Weixin; of cool

【Indications】 Qufeng pain; dampness itching. The main cold and fever; rheumatic pain; abdominal pain, diarrhea; rubella; warm rash

Oral Dosage: Decoction ,6-15g. External: amount Jiantang wash.

[] Discussed various "Chinese drug plant field guide": melaleuca leaves and branches to take the steam volatile oil can be pain, de-worming and anti-corrosion, cure earache, tooth pain, rheumatism and neuralgia.

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