Big jujube

[ source ] was contained in the" compendium of Materia Medica" xinhua.
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Shí Zǎ o
English name [ ] Kansu Crabapple
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for the Rosaceae plant in Begonia fruits.
Latin animal mineral name: Malus kansuensis ( Batal. ) Schneid.[Pyrus kansuensis Batal.]
Harvest and storage:7-8 month when ripe, fresh.
[ ] the original morphology in Begonia shrubs to small trees,5-10m. Branchlets stout, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent when old purple, brown or dark brown. Leaves alternate; petiole is long1.5-4cm, sparsely pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, margin sparsely glandular teeth, long 6-10mm, slightly puberulent; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate,5-8cm long,4-6cm wide, base rounded or truncate, margin minutely sharply serrate, usually 3lobed, below are sparsely pubescent. Flowers bisexual; umbel raceme, with flower 4-10; pedicels 2.5-3.5cm; bracts linear-lanceolate, caducous; flowers white, outside diameter 1.5-2CM; calyx tube densely villous; calyx lobes 5, outside glabrous, inside villous; petals 5, broadly obovate, base shortly clawed, inner surface sparsely villous; stamens 20; styles 3, rare 4or 2, inferior ovary. Fruit elliptic or obovate,1-1.5cm in diameter, yellow and red, calyx lobes shedding, fruit stalk is long2-3.5cm. Florescence 5-6 month, month of fruit period 7-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 1500-3000m copse or thicket.
Resource distribution: located in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan etc..
[ character ] this product is elliptic or obovate,1-1.5cm diameter, surface yellow or red and yellow; sepals deciduous, fruit stalk is long2-3.5cm. Micro gas smell, taste slightly sweet and sour.
[ taste ] acid; flat
[ ] to the spleen and stomach;
[ indications ] stomachic xiaoji. The main food
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g.
[ ] the treatise" Materia Medica": fruit: Xinhua outline for indigestion.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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