Heliotropium indicum

[ source ] from the" Fujian folk medicine"
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Wě I Yá o
[ ] Herb of Indian Heliotrope English name
[ alias ] squid grass, speckle grass, Timothy, elephant, elephant grass, grass, flatfish, O Kuo, elephant flower, heliotrope, dog tail, four angle Su, hook head snake, lemon smell
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Boraginaceae Heliotropium indicum whole plant or root.
Latin botanical name: Heliotropiu mindicum L. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: autumn harvest, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbaceous, tall 15-60cm. Cylindrical, in brown. Stems erect, robust, much branched, strigose. Ye Husheng, dilute subopposite; petiole2-5cm; leaf blade ovate elliptic, long 4-10cm, wide 2-4cm, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or truncate, decurrent to the petiole, margin slightly serrate or slightly wavy, both surfaces sparsely with short brown hair. Scorpioid cymes,5-20cm long, slender curved, single, unbranched, terminal or opposite leaves, without bracts; the flower is small dense, in 2 series on rachis side; calyx 5deeply lobed, lobes lanceolate, strigose; corolla pale blue or violet, with sparse white, salverform, long 3-5mm, apex 5 - lobed, lobes suborbicular, extension, larynx smooth, unappendaged; stamens 5, included, inserted on corolla Jane base; ovary small, styles and stigmas very short, stigma broadly conical, apex truncate. Drupe egg form, long 4-5mm, has longitudinal ribs,2 crack greatly, each divided into2segments with the single seed branch of nuclear. Florescence 4-7 month, month of fruit period 8-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born below elevation 600m hill slopes, the edge of the field, the desert grassland or brook channel edge.
Resource distribution: located in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] Heliotropium indicum chemical composition containing alkaloids: Heliotropium indicum alkali ( indicine ), acetyl Heliotropium indicum alkali ( acetyl indicine ), Ono Ne ( indicinine ), N- ( indicine N-ocide alkali oxide Heliotropium indicum ), La Ling de alkali (echinatine), supine heliotrope alkali (supinine), europine ( heleurine ), heliotrope, alkali ( heliotrine ), Heliotropium lasiocarpum alkali (lasiocarpine ), N- oxidized wool fruit heliotrope alkali ( lasiocarpine N-ox-ide ). Seed oil three triglycerides and cyanide lipid (cyanolipid ) all contain C16, C18 fatty acids, C16, C18cyanide lipids fatty acid the,3- dimethylol acrylic ester formation.
[ ] the pharmacological effects of water extract from root to anesthetic cats intravenous injection can reduce blood pressure and respiratory stimulating, on isolated toad heart inhibition; alcohol extract has no effect. Water extract on isolated guinea pig ileum had no significant effect on the isolated rabbit duodenum, can increase the tension; alcohol extract both inhibition. To the toad rectus abdominis two had no effect on isolated rat uterus, two have significant excitatory effect. Water extract and alcohol extract of oxytocin-like effect. Leaf extract on murine Schwartz leukemia ( ascites ), anti-tumor effects ( prolong life ).
[ ] the toxicity of water extract on mice with mild toxicity, alcohol extract has no obvious toxicity ( each rat peritoneal injection of 1:1concentration of 0.8ml does not cause death ).
[ ] bitter taste; flat
[ ] the bladder meridian of lung;
[ ] diuresis detumescence; functions; detoxification. The main pneumonia; empyema; sore throat; oral erosions; bladder stones; carbuncle
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g, fresh50-100g; or Jiashi density adjustable eye. External application: suitable, washed fried or ramming juice containing cough.
[ note ]" Nanning City drug records": not to be taken by pregnant women.
[ ] the paper1" Fujian folk medicine": diuretic Qingre Jiedu Xiaoyong. Treatment of fever spotting, pneumonia, empyema. 2" Nanning City drug records": swelling detoxification bulk, oral treatment of bladder stones; leaves with lime water decoction fumigation treatment of paronychia. 3" the Folk Herbal Medicine >: cure sore throat, coughing, sore at the beginning, oral erosions.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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