In Amomum villosum Lour

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Shā Ré n
[ alias ] soil, sand, Niugu shrinkage of Amomum villosum Baltic sand
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Zingiberaceae cardamom warty fruit fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: AmomummuricarpumElm.
Harvest and storage of fruit harvest: when mature, cut ear, removing impurities, drying.
[ ] the original form of wart fruit cardamom, evergreen perennial herbs, up to 3m. Petiole 5-10mm; ligule long 7-9mm; leaf blade by needle or oblong-lanceolate,26-36cm long,6-8cm wide, apex caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous. Spikelike inflorescence ovoid,6-8cm long, drawn out by rhizomes; peduncles long 5-7cm, base imbricate arrangement of the scales, the following scales small, to gradually become larger; inflorescence rachis densely yellow pubescent; bracteoles tubular,2-2.5cm long, brown, side cracking to near base; calyx tube length2.5cm, apex two crack, red; corolla tube and screen calyx subequal, lobes long 2-3cm, apricot, there was a significant red veins; labellum obovate, long 2.5-3cm, apricot yellow, with purple veining and purple midvein, apex2 crack, edge slope undulate; lateral staminodes diamond shape; connective appendage half round, height of about5mm, width of 10mm, both sides of the protruding into the winged. Capsule ellipsoid or globose, the diameter is about 2.5cm, red, yellow hairs and branched soft Lee, thorn grows 3-6mm. Florescence 5-9 month, month of fruit period 6-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 300-1000m forest in the valley.
Resource distribution: distribution in Guangdong, Hainan. Guangxi.
[ character ]
Character identification: fruit were spherical, with not very obvious3 blunt edge, length l.5-3cm, diameter l.5-2.5cm. Tan surface, there are scanty and large sheet spike, some lodging; apex perianth residues, ca. LMM, sometimes by sheet embedding; base with the fruit stalk breaking mark. Pericarp thick, hard, inner surface of brown yellow. Placentation axile, room 3, visible membranous diaphragm. The seed group elliptic or egg circle, long 1.2-2.2cm, l-2.2cm diameter, each chamber containing a seed11-25. Seed diameter3-4mm, Tan surface outside the pale brown, membranous aril. Light pungent, cool.
Microscopic identification of seed coat: transverse: epidermal cell oval or round. Lower1rows parenchyma cells, including yellow pigment. Oil cell1, rectangular or square, including the yellow oil drops. Pigment layer of cells in5-8 column, irregularly arranged, with pale yellow, yellowish brown or yellow red pigment. Inner seed coat is 1 column grid stone cell, containing a silicon block. The perisperm cells round, containing calcium oxalate crystal, crystal.
[ ] taste acrid in taste and warm;
[ ] temperature functions of wet; Jianwei; antiemetic tocolysis. Primary gastric cold pain; vomiting; diarrhea; hyperemesis gravidarum; fetal irritability
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-6g; or into the pill, powder.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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