Thorn honey

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica" gleaning.
The 1" Chinese Materia Medica": a thorn honey, students of the sand. Blade barbed, hairy, Mao Zhongsheng honey. A grass honey.
2" compendium of Materia Medica":" history of the north" by Li Yanshou cloud, in the grass, sheep spines, the raw honey, taste very sweet. Jie public cloud, Nanping City sheep spines leafless, its honey white and sweet; Yancheng sheep spines leaves large, its green and honey flavor thin also. The Gaochang namely, now the state fire.
3" Xinjiang Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine": fresh camel thorn, pressed juice with teeth, can cure toothache.
[ ] C M Pinyin name
English name [ Alhagi-Honey ]
[ alias ] sheep spines honey, honey, grass to polo, the camel thorn, thorn sugar sugar.
[ source ] medicine source: legumes for camel thorn Alhagi pseudalhagi Desv leaf secretion condenses the sugar.
Latin animal mineral name: Alhagi pseudalhagi Desv.
Harvest and storage: summer has sugar in plants, lower cloth, beating plants, sugar granules fall, collect the sugar to remove impurities.
[ ] the original form of the camel thorn subshrubs, high 60-130cm. Branches glabrous or subglabrous, grey green; acupuncture dense, thorn long 1.2-2.5cm. Leaves alternate; petiole length 3-10mm, is adnate stipule small flexible students, deciduous; leaves to back upward, downward to surface growth, broadly obovate or suborbicular, length 0.5-2cm, width 0.4-1.5cm, apex rounded or emarginate, base cuneate shape, both sides are adnate pubescent. Racemes axillary peduncles, spiny, long 1.5-4cm, spend a few flowers; calyx campanulate, calyx teeth triangular, short, glabrous or sparsely hairy; corolla purple, upper petal have shortly clawed, ca. 8mm, wing ca. 5mm, keel is slightly shorter than petals petal, long; stamens 10, ( 9) 1, two; ovary glabrous, sessile. Pod moniliform, long 2.5cm, bending, cracking. 1-5 star seed. Flowering 6-7.
[ ] habitat distribution ecological environment : in the desert.
Resource distribution: located in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu.
[ character ] trait distinguishing the granular, diameter 1-5mm, I table light yellow to brown, slightly sticky, gas, sweet. Often mixed with the original plant thorns and obovate leaflets leathery sheet.
[ ] the chemical composition of collected during flowering stage on the part ( stem ) containing vitamin C110mg%, carotene, vitamin K, 10mg% small amounts of vitamin B1 ursolic acid 0.30%, flavanols ( Flavanol ) 0.23%. Trunk containing vitamin C80mg%, carotene 6mg%, ursolic acid 0.75%. This article tries beforehand contained alkaloids.
[ ] physicochemical identification identification to take this product 1g 10ml 5min, adding water, shake, filtration, the filtrate as too method test: (1 ) to obtain filtrate 1ml, adding alkaline copper tartrate solution 4-5 drops, in boiling water bath heating 3-5min, solution to produce orange red precipitate.
( 2) paper chromatography paper chromatography Whatman No.1 of the filtrate sample, compared to fructose. With n butyl alcohol acetic acid - water ( 4 : 1: 5), taking the 15ml, 3ml and methanol as solvent; show from 15cm; 2.5%a - naphthol sulfuric acid and ethanol solution colour, show 3 blue spots, which the top 1 spots corresponding with fructose.
[ ] taste Gan; acid; flat
[ ] to the heart; lung; spleen; small intestine; kidney
[ ] functions convergence astringents; pain relief. The main dysentery; diarrhea; abdomen distending pain; deficiency of polydipsia; headache; toothache
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 10-15g.
[ ] the paper 1" Materia Medica": a main bone heat, phlegm, diarrhea by blood, appetizer, thirst, chufan.
2" Xinjiang medicine": treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, abdominal pain.
3" Xinjiang Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine": the strong tonic, astringents, pain.
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