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[ source ]" Sichuan" from Chinese medicinal herbs
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Jià n
[ ] Herb of Channelled Waterplantain English name
[ alias ] water Alisma, sweat bullets and arrows
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Alismataceae plants with narrow leaves until the whole grass.
Latin botanical mineral name: Alisma canaliculatum A. animal Braun et Bouche.
Harvest and storage:8-9 month recovery, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form of narrow Alisma, perennial aquatic or marsh plants, tuber diameter 1-3cm. Leaves all basal; petiolar long 10-30cm; leaf blade lanceolate or strip wraps around needle form, long 7-22cm, wide 1-4.5cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate. Scapes with panicle high 50-100cm; panicle branches and umbels of peduncles are whorled, pedicels 2-4cm; outer tepals 3, calyxlike, inner perianth segments3, petaloid, white; stamens 6; carpels numerous, whorled, stigma than ovary short, curved. Achenes flat sides, long 2-3mm, the back has 1deep groove. Florescence 6-7 month, month of fruit period 7-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : on the edges of swamps and ditches.
Resource distribution: distribution in the Yangtze River and the South country.
[ ] a taste; slightly cold
[ ] the lung meridian; kidney
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness; alexipharmic detumescence. The main difficulty in urination; edema; innominate toxic swelling; cutaneous zoster; eczema; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,30-60g; or leach liquor. External: amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/