2012年5月23日星期三

Concanavalin A ConA



[ ] D āo Pinyin name Dò u
English name [ ] SEMEN CANAVALIE
[ source ] this product is legume concanavalin Canavalia GLADIATA ( Jacq. ) DC. seed is the dried ripe seed, fruit and root. Autumn harvest ripe fruit, stripping seeds, dried.
[ character ] seed: This product is a flat or flat oval kidney form, grow 2 ~3.5cm, width 1 ~2cm,0.5 ~ 1.2cm in thickness. Surface light red to reddish purple, small shrinkage, slightly shiny. The edge of a frown shaped black hilum, is about 2cm long, with white fine lines3. Hard, difficult to break. Testa leathery, inner surface of brown and green and bright; cotyledons 2, yellow-white, grease. Odorless, tasteless, the chewing of a bean flavor.
[ ] this product: differential cross section for the 1 column grid of epidermal cells, the hilum of the 2 column, outside the stratum corneum, with obvious brilliance. Supporting cells in 2~ 6, presented dumbbell. Nutritive layer consists of ten column cutting to the extension of the parenchyma cells of the inner cell was decadent, shape; vascular, seed coat is series of polygonal cells of endosperm. Cotyledon cells containing many starch grains. Tracheid Island oval wall thickening, mesh, bordered rare. There are around 4to 5 layers of parenchyma cells, which is flanked by stellate tissue, cells showed the astral form, have large intercellular spaces.
[ ] when processing to remove impurities, mashed.
[ ] taste Gan, wen.
[ ] to the stomach, kidney meridian.
[ ] functions of temperature, gas, check well. For deficiency hiccup, vomiting.
[ usage]4.5~ 9g.
[ storage ] is ventilated and dry place, mothproof.
Excerpts from" Chinese Pharmacopoeia" [ ]

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