Giant lobelia

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Zh n Bà n I Biā n Liá n
[ alias ] great lobelia, wild indigo, body piercing grass, grass, partial rod Gilbert, southern white amaranth
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Campanulaceae plant river Nanshan Terrier vegetable root or herb.
Latin botanical name: Lobelia dauidii Franch. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Lobelia davidii Franch perennial grass, up to180cm. Stems erect, glabrous or with very short inverted brown. Hairs . Leaves alternate; petiole up to 4cm, on both sides of a winged; leaves spirally arranged, lower caducous; ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, long and up to17cm, width of7cm, apex acuminate, base attenuate into sessile, margin with irregular serrate or undulate with fine teeth. Racemose top is unripe, long 20-50cm, inflorescence axis glabrous or with very short pilose; bracts ovate-lanceolate lobes lanceolate, strip, long 8-12mm, margin denticulate; corolla purplish red or reddish purple,1.8-2.5( -2.8) cm, nearly two2-lipped, upper lip lobes linear, lower lip lobes oblong or lanceolate in shape the oval, and obviously, glabrous or slightly hairy, below throat pubescent; stamens united into a tube at base or above. Capsule globose, diameter 6-10mm, bottom often back to the rachis, glabrous or have small hair. Seeds brown, slightly compressed. Flower, month of fruit period 8-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born below elevation 2300m mountain forest boundary ditches relatively sheltered places
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi etc..
[ ] the chemical composition of lobelia herb contains alkaloid lobeline demethylation ( norlelobanidine ), demethylation lobelanine ( norlobelanine ), lobelanidine ( lobelanidine ), demethylation lobelanidine ( norlobelanidine ) and Lobelia ketone alkali ( lelobanonoline ); also containing three terpene compounds:β- amyrin palmitate ( palmitateβ-amyrin ) and β- sitosterol (β -sitosterol )
[ ] taste spicy; Gan; flat; the small poison
[ ] the lung meridian; kidney
[ indications ] Xuanfei phlegm; detoxification; diuresis detumescence. Primary cough with phlegm; edema; boils; lower extremity ulceration; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-9g. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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