In nine cows

[ ] from Kunming."" common folk herbal medicine
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Jiǔ Gǔ Niú
[ ] Root of Delavay Dobinea English name
[ alias ] nine cattle from the mother, green, big bone of Gastrodia elata.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the Anacardiaceae clevis Gastrodia rhizome.
Latin animal mineral name: Dobinea delavayi ( Baill. ) Baill.[Podoon delavayi Baill.]
Harvest and storage: autumn, winter, spring digging, wash, remove the skin dried or sliced dried.
[ ] the original shape of horn of Gastrodia elata perennial herbs subshrublike, about 1m high. Rhizomes thick, cylindrical, purple-brown, striate, sparsely puberulent distally glabrous proximally. Ye Husheng; petiolar long 1.5-6cm, upper leaves sessile or subsessile; leaf blade cordate or ovate-cordate, long 6-11cm, wide 3-9gcm, upper leaves smaller, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate or acute, base obtuse, margin irregularly coarsely toothed, sparsely puberulent leaf. Hairy or subglabrous, foliaceous back by small bristles; sessile or nearly so; lateral veins 6-7 pairs. Flowers small, unisexual; male inflorescences cymose racemes or cymose paniculate, terminal or in leaf axils,8-15cm long; calyx glabrous, lobes obtuse triangle; petals spatulate; male green 8( -10); filaments linear, ca.2mm; anthers ovoid; disk purplish red; sterile ovary conical, ca.1mm; female inflorescence racemose, terminal or in upper leaf axils, when fruit declinate; having leaflike bracts2large, white, pale piece pilose, margin with eyelash without calyx, petal and stamen. Because increasing the bracts of the trust, fruit diameter3-4mm, puberulent, with veins, was born in the middle and lower bracts, bracts when fruit expansion, broadly elliptic or suborbicular,2-2.5cm in diameter, with a net. Seed 1. Florescence autumn.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 1100-2300m sunny grass or bushes.
Resource distribution: distribution in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.
[ character ]
Character identification is cylindrical, long 3.7-7.5cm, surface grayish white or light brown, opaque, skin is not a net addition can be seen with3-4ring lines and vertical lines, and can be torn away from the 1outer layer, slightly resembling fibrous. The visible cutting marks. The top has a recessed or raised residual stem scars. A solid mass, not easy to break, section flat, somewhat similar in quality. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
Microscopic identification of characteristics: light brown powder. The starch granule is numerous, single or multiple grain. Single particle were round, galeate, axe, and a few trapezoids, diameter 3-8-13 μm, large starch grains occasionally cross umbilical points, layer are not obvious. Complex particle consists of 2-4sizing composition; grain are usually hooded, semicircular or triangular prism. The calcium oxalate crystals in phelloderm and cortical parenchyma cells, flower or crystal valve is pointed, the diameter of 8-26μ M. ③ catheter for anilox, diameter up to 80μ m, end wall inclined, pit prolate; other visible pits great pitted vessel fragments. The wood parenchyma showed a piece of sheet, cell oblong or elongated, slightly thickened wall.
[ ] taste slightly bitter cold;
[ ] heart lung meridian;
[ ] functions of heat-clearing and detoxicating; cough; pain relief. Primary lung heat cough; mastitis; rib mastitis; furuncle carbuncle boils; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g; or wine. External application: suitable, honey or vinegar dressing.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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