Large Akebia

Pinyin name ] [ Dà Mù Tō n
[ alias ] Dan, bald man, yellow, loofah vine, on small wood, wire.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Ranunculaceae Clematis vines with coarse teeth.
Latin animal mineral name: Clematis argentilucida ( Levl.et Vant. ) W.T.Wang[C.grata Wall.var.grandidentata Rehd.et Wils.]
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, remove the branches, leaves and bark, cut into small pieces, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Clematis coarse teeth, deciduous vine. Branchlets densely white pubescent, old peeling. Leaves opposite, pinnate leaves; petiole 3.5-6.5cm; leaflets usually5, leaflets ovate or elliptic-ovate,5-10cm long,3.5-6.5cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded, broadly cuneate or slightly cordate, often with obvious3 crack, edge has large serrated teeth, pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes more sparsely or nearly glabrous. Axillary cymes, usually3-7flower; sepals 4, begin, diameter 2-3.5cm, white, nearly oblong, long 1-1.8cm, width of 5mm, apex obtuse, outside pubescent, inside sometimes nearly glabrous; petals absent; stamens numerous, glabrous carpels numerous, pilose. Achenes flat oval, long 3-4mm, pubescent; persistent style feather, up to 3cm. Florescence 5-7 month, month of fruit period 7-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 450-3200m hillside bushes or gully.
Resource distribution: located in Hebei, Shanxi, southern Shaanxi, southern and Eastern Gansu, southern Anhui, northern Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, sichuan.
[ character ] character identification, stem diameter cylindrical,1.2-3.5cm, the coarse up to4.5cm. The surface has 6large longitudinal edges and 6longitudinal slots, each longitudinal edge with a plurality of fine longitudinal edge, each slot having 2thin longitudinal ridge. Rough skin is a long sheet layers of longitudinal shedding. Transverse section of6invagination, Ministry of yellow-white wood, pipe hole is larger. Fresh goods cross section with black or gray objects. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
[ ] taste slightly bitter taste; flat
[ ] diuresis functions; detoxification; rheumatism. The main difficulty in urination; gonorrhea; latex barrier; furuncle poison; also treat rheumatoid joint pain; numbness of limbs
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-12g. External: amount, trace and apply; or Decoction wash.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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