Clove root

[ source ] from "kai-materia Medica"
[ ] Pinyin name D n be Xi n G n to be.
English name [ ] Clovetree Root
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Medicine source: Myrtle lilac tree.
Latin animal mineral name: SyZygium aromaticum ( L. ) Merr . Et Perry [Eugenia aromaticea Kuntze; E . Caryophyllata Thunb.]
Harvest and storage: Autumn grubbing, washed, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of clove, evergreen trees, up to 10 meters high. Leaves opposite; petiole markedly; leaves ovate or oblong obovate rectangular, length 5-10cm, width 2.5-5cm, apex acuminate or acute, base narrow often exhibit a sessile, entire. The flowers are fragrant, into the terminal thyrses, flower diameter of about 6mm; calyx hypertrophy, green to purple, tubular, apex4 crack, lobation triangle; corolla white, slightly purple, short appressed,4 crack; stamens numerous, anthers longitudinally dehiscent; ovary inferior, and calyx tube connate, style thick, stigma not apparent. Berry red brown oval, rectangular, length 1-1.5cm, diameter5-8mm, apex night latch sepals. Seeds oblong.
[ ] habitat distribution distribution of Malay Archipelago and Africa, China Guangdong, Guangxi has cultivated. Herbs produced in Tanzania, Malaysia, Indonesia and other places.
[ ] taste spicy; flat; a small drug
[ ] the lung meridian.
[ ] heat detoxification functions. The main heat of swollen poison
[ usage] external : the amount, trace and apply or Decoction wash.
[ ] the treatise "kai-materia Medica": treating wind-heat toxic goiter.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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