Dapaotong leaf

[ source ] from the" Guizhou folk medicine"
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Pà o Tō n Y è
[ ] Leaf of Delavay Schefflera English name
[ alias ] bovine throat tube leaf, bean, soybean soybean leaves drum leaves
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for Araliaceae spike sequence of Schefflera leaf.
Latin animal mineral name: Schefflera delavayi ( Franch. ) Harms.
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, use fresh or dried crushed.
[ ] the original morphology of trees and shrubs, tall 3-8m. Thick stem, the appearance of dark brown; branchlets stout, who will give birth to yellowish brown stellate tomentose, after shedding; Jubai flaky pith. Palmately compound leaves with leaflets 4-7; petiolar long 4-16cm, up to70cm, densely stellate tomentose when young, growing round, ovate-lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, long 6-20cm, up to 35cm long,2-8cm wide or wider; apex acute or short acuminate, base obtuse to rounded; full margin with alienation irregular rough tooth or1-3lobed to parted, glabrous above, below densely gray or yellowish brown stellate tomentose, coarse and obvious main veins; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, flat or slightly raised above, below and slightly bulging, reticulate veins slightly sunken thin flat above, below, down to cover up not uplift. Flowers sessile, spikes poly generated large panicles terminal, long 12-10cm, spindle and branches are densely stellate tomentose when young, after hair fall off gradually, branched10-30cm; bracts ovate, long 4-5mm, bractlets triangular-ovate,1-2mm long, are densely stellate tomentose; calyx is long1.5-2mm, sparsely stellate pubescent, margin toothed petals '4-5;4-5, triangular-ovate, ca.2mm, glabrous, white flowers; stamens 5, filaments ca.3mm; ovary inferior,4-5chamber; styles united into a column, stigma obscurely, disc bulge. Fructification is globose, diameter of about4mm, purplish black, glabrescent; persistent style long 1.5-2mm. Florescence 10-11 month, fruiting in January the next year.
[ ] bitter, astringent taste;; slightly cold
[ indications ] dispelling pathogenic wind and removing dampness; detoxification and astringing sores. The main rubella; dermatitis; eczema; chapped skin
[ usage] external: amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the paper" Guizhou folk medicine to cure skin dehiscence:" ( by cold stimulation and ), use of Dapaotong leaves a, roasted on the fire soft package on the affected part. Every night, such as packet at a time.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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