Big pepper

[ source ] from the" Hunan" drug records
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Yè Huā Jiā o
[ ] Fruit of Shellfish Pricklyash English name
[ alias ] big pepper, Yama Biwa, pepper, pepper, hardcore rock medicine oyster drill pepper, tiger hill.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the family Rutaceae Zanthoxylum dissitum fruit.
Latin botanical mineral name: Zanthoxylum dissitum Hemsl.[Z.bodinieri animal Levl.; Fagara dissita Engl.]
Harvest and storage:8-9 month when ripe, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original morphology of Zanthoxylum dissitum evergreen woody vines when young, shrubby, high 1-3.5m. Stems, branches borne slightly recurved prickles. Odd pinnate leaves alternate; firmly papery to leathery; petiolar long 1-4cm; branchlets, leaf rachises, petioles and leaf total sometimes underneath rib on small and curved sharp prickles; petiolules2-8mm long; leaflets3-9, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or egg shape Phi shape, length 7-16cm, width 3-6cm, apex acuminate, slightly curved skew, Ye Jiguang wedge, slightly unequal sides, entire, glabrous, above green, glossy, below blue. Cymose panicles, axillary, a leaf short; bracts small, ovoid; sepals 4, broadly ovate, ca.1mm; petals 4, ovate-oblong, long 4-5mm, wide 2-2.5mm; male flowers yellow, stamens 4, extended petals and carpels; degradation of small, apex2-4forked; female and male, no staminodes. Follicles mature pale brown, looks like a clam shell shaped, dense clusters. Seeds globose, diameter 6-7mm, black, bright. Florescence 3-5 month, month of fruit period 5-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 600-1900m sparse forests or thickets, especially in the limestone hill.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi etc..
[ character ] trait identification of fruit shapes like a clam, diameter 8-9mm. Fruit surface of red, or brown, a shrinkage, more to four weeks more shallow, edge having an arcuate convex ring, apex acuminate, bent beak. Fruit quality of tough, containing seeds, seed shape such as black bean, diameter 5-6mm. Gas strong, Ma and bitter taste.
[ ] the taste of spice; temperature; the small poison
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ indications ] for dispelling cold and relieving pain; menstruation. The main colicky; after much
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-9g.
[ ] the paper1" Hunan journal": drug treatment of menorrhagia in women. 2commonly used Chinese herbal medicine" Sichuan": administer hernia.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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