White Sands Artemisia

[Source] only contained in the "China's higher plant field guide."

[Pinyin] Bái Shā Hāo

[English name] Roundhead wormwood

[Alias] flutter Lemeng, seeds of Artemisia, white sand wormwood, Artemisia oil sands

[Source]
Medicine-based Source: Compositae Artemisia seed round
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Artemiaisia ​​sphaerocephala Krasch. [A. salsolides Willd. Var. Mongolica Pamp.; Oligosprus Sphaero-cephalus (Krasch.) Poljak.]
Harvesting and storage: the fall harvest mature fruit production, lay the seeds, remove debris and dried.

[Original] form a small rounded shrub Artemisia, high ,80-150cm. Column long thick root, wood; roots thick, wooden, nutritious sticks. Stems clustered, a single thin, greyish yellow or gray, smooth, vertical edges a little obvious, more than the upper branches, branch length 15-30cm, work longer, smooth, greyish yellow or purple red, often spur. Leaves alternate; petioles 3-8mm long or longer, smooth, greyish yellow or purple red, often spur. Leaves alternate; petiole length 3-8mm, the base often leaves linear pretext; semi-succulent leaves; spur a generation on the leaves often densely clustered like; stem lower, middle leaves ovate or ovate, 2-8cm, width 1.5-4cm, or one to two back to back feather Ng split, both sides of the central lobe the longest, often then 3 full crack, arc small lobes linear or slightly curved, almost sickle-shaped, small hard-pointed tip, based birth extended, semi-amplexicaul, obviously anti-roll edge; upper leaves pinnate division or 3 full crack; bracts leaf is not split, linear, thin 3 full crack. Capitulum, spherical or nearly spherical, diameter 3-4mm, with short stems, drooping, small branches in the branch-like bracts arranged in spikes 3-4 layers, the outer bracts on the back of yellow, smooth , with green in the ribs, the inner bracts membranaceous edge or full-width half-membranous; female flowers 4-12 flowers, narrow tubular corolla, split 2 eaves Department of teeth, style tip 2 forks; bisexual flowers 2-- 20, narrow tubular corolla, split 2 eaves Department of teeth, style tip 2 forks; 6-20 flowers bisexual flowers, sterile, corolla tubular, glandular dots outside the mask, anther appendage pointed tip, long triangle, the base circle, style short, apex 2 crack, not splayed, degradation of the ovary is small, solid-like inflorescences and flowers during the first easy to fall off. Achenes small, black, fruit back with varnish. Flowers, fruit from July to October.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born 1000-2850m above sea level, or the sand dunes of the desert and arid slopes on the ground.
Resource distribution: distributed in the Northwest and Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places.

Chemical Composition】 【Artemisia seeds were isolated from the white sand a colloid, which may be a polysaccharide with a cross-linked structure, by the D-glucose (D-glucose), D-mannose (D-mannose), D-half lactose (D-galactose), L-arabinose (L-arabinose) and xylose (xylose) formed, in which D-glucose levels, followed by the D-mannose, D-galactose, L-arabinose and xylose [1]. Also including sub-Shan ethyl (ethyl linoleate), cherry hormone (sakuranetin), cherry splendor hormone (isosakuranetin), Acacetin (acacetin), wood spinach dill flavanone (arocarpanone) [2]. Other containing volatile oil, the main component of oil cineole (cineol) α and-β-school-ene (pinene), α-and γ-terpinene (terpinene) and so on.

[Taste] Weixin; and warm

[Indications] qi; laxative; detoxification. Main constipation; fishy swelling abdominal pain; rib pancreatitis; tonsillitis; carbuncle swollen boils

Dosage Oral: powder ,5-10g. Topical: the amount, transfer deposited into powder.

[Discussion of] each, "Xinhua herbal outline": anti-inflammatory stasis, qi insecticidal function. For abdominal distention (liquor blunt), external to mumps, tonsillitis, swollen boils.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/