Big Dan

[ ] from Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan.""
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Jiē Gǔ Dā n
[ English ] Root or flower of Toothedleaf name Torricellia
[ alias ] water melon wood, clear and bright flowers, Dan, the grass, water melon, water of Acanthopanax
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Cornaceae plant tooth sheath handle wood root, root bark, bark and leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Torricellia (Harms) angulata Oliv.var.intermedia Hu[T.inetrmedia Harms ex Diels]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of deciduous shrubs or small trees,2.5-8m. Bark gray; old branches yellow-gray, long elliptic lenticels and semi circular leaf scars. Ye Husheng; petiole ca.5cm, base broadened into a sheath on the branches; leaf blade membranous or papery, broadly ovate or nearly circular, long 6-15CM, wide 5-15cm5-7, lobed, lobes with teeth serrated edge, basal veins 5-7, reaching to the leaf margin, both sides were raised in. Racemose inflorescence terminal, pendulous, male inflorescences5-30cm long, densely pubescent; male calyx tube obconical, lobes 5; petals 5, oblong lanceolate, apex hooklike recurved; stamens 5, alternate with petals; disk pulvinate, circular, the middle3stylodes; pedicels slender, near base there are2 long bracteoles lanceolate; female inflorescences often longer, up to 35cm; calyx tubular campanulate, lobes 5, lanceolate, with no petals and stamens; ovary obovate,3 rooms, and calyx tube connate; pedicels thin cylindrical, with bracteoles3. Fruit drupaceous, ovate,4mm Diameter, grain persistent. Florescence in April, fruit period in June.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 400-1800m under forest.
Resource distribution: located in Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, sichuan.
[ ] taste acrid in taste slightly bitter; flat;
[ indications ] Qufeng Lishi Huoxue Shujin. The main traumatic bruises; rib fracture; amenorrhea; rheumatoid arthritis; stomach pain; abdominal pain diarrhea; edema
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g. External: amount, trace and apply it grinds end apply adjustment.
[ ] the paper1" Guizhou folk prescription set": root: Daolan topical, eliminating contusions, bone; leaching liquor is taken orally, can Shujin huoxue. 2" Guizhou herbal medicine": root bark, flowers, leaves: regulating blood, bone, tonic, antipyretic, and asthma. Treatment of fracture, women Ganxuelao, tonsillitis, asthma, traumatic injury.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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