Rough skin of Usnea

[ ] C Pinyin name reports the P S n Lu" to be Golf
[ alias ] canopy cloud grass, grass, tree seven
[ source ]
Medicine source: usneaceae plant coarse Usnea lichen body.
Latin animal mineral name: Usnea montis-fuji Mot.
Harvest and storage: summer, fall from forest tree spade, removing impurities, tied into small, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of lichens, filamentous, drape, hard, long 30cm above. Surface grayish green or yellowish green, with a brown color, luster. Primary attachment apparatus not only, secondary attachment apparatus. At very short, not obvious; branch above filamentous branching; secondary branching length binary shape, with few branches, often a single parallel extension, lateral on branches densely length ranging from small ciliated, long 2-5mm, sometimes up to1cm; branches without emulsion process, with circumferential crack or due to cortical rupture into bran powder, often stripping, causing the surface is very rough. The cortex is thin, yellowish green, pith white layer, loose. Axial light white, section oblate, resilient, accounts for about1 /3m. diameter.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in conifer trunks or branches.
Resource distribution: located in Liaoning, Jilin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan etc..
[ character ]
1character identification of lichens, filamentous, hard, grayish green or yellowish green to brown. At very short, secondary branches are slender, cortex. Cortical surface roughness, dense small cilia.
2physical and chemical identification of medullary layer2%-5% on benzene two ethyl alcohol solution assumes a yellow; plus 5%-10% potassium hydroxide solution was yellow, following a blood red.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; flat
[ ] functions bleeding Shengji; menstruation; liver eyesight. The main external bleeding; blood; menstruation; metrorrhagia; hypertension; corneal nebula; carbuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-9g. External: moderate, washed fried; or grinds end apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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