White orchid leaves

[ ] B I Pinyin name 's L 's n Hu Y keyword.
[ source ]
Medicine source: white orchid leaves of Magnolia plants.
Latin animal mineral name: Michelia alba DC.
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest, clean, fresh or dried standby.
[ ] the original morphology of trees, high 10-20m, in the colder regions often shrub-like, only the 1-2m. Bark gray, young branchlets densely yellowish white villous, fall off gradually after. Leaves alternate; petiole length 1.5-2CM; petiole stipule scar for 1/3 or 1/4; leaves thinly leathery; leaf blade oblong or lanceolate oval, long 10-27cm, long 4-9.5cm wide, apex tapering or caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent below. Flowers white, fragrant, single born in leaf axils; perianth 10 above, about 3cm long; stamens numerous, filaments flat, connective apical extension growth beaked; androecium has a shank, ca. 4mm, carpels numerous, usually part of carpel development, formation of sparsely aggregate fruit. 4-9 summer flowering, holding on, rare fruit.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: suitable for the warm and moist climate and fertile loose soil.
Resource distribution: Zhejiang, Fujian, in Taiwan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Sichuan widely cultivated. Catchment of the Yangtse River around the pot or greenhouse during winter. A native of Indonesia java.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin Ping;
[ function ] diuresis; cough phlegm. The main urinary infection; urination; bronchitis
[ usage]: 9-30g orally taken decoction. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" [ ]
Chinese Materia Medica"
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