Lobar prickly stems and leaves

[ source ] from the" Hunan" drug records
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Yè Huā Jiā o J īn Yè
[ English ] Stem and leaf of Shellfish name pricklyash
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: as the family Rutaceae Zanthoxylum dissitum Zanthoxylum dissitum Hemsl. stem or leaf.
Latin botanical mineral name: Zanthoxylum dissitum Hemsl.[Z.bodinieri animal Levl.; Fagara dissita Engl.]
Harvest and storage: summer and autumn harvest, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Zanthoxylum dissitum evergreen woody vines when young, shrubby, high 1-3.5m. Stems, branches borne slightly recurved prickles. Odd pinnate leaves alternate; firmly papery to leathery; petiolar long 1-4cm; branchlets, leaf rachises, petioles and leaf total sometimes underneath rib on small and curved sharp prickles; petiolules2-8mm long; leaflets3-9, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or egg shape Phi shape, length 7-16cm, width 3-6cm, apex acuminate, slightly curved skew, Ye Jiguang wedge, slightly unequal sides, entire, glabrous, above green, glossy, below blue. Cymose panicles, axillary, a leaf short; bracts small, ovoid; sepals 4, broadly ovate, ca.1mm; petals 4, ovate-oblong, long 4-5mm, wide 2-2.5mm; male flowers yellow, stamens 4, extended petals and carpels; degradation of small, apex2-4forked; female and male, no staminodes. Follicles mature pale brown, looks like a clam shell shaped, dense clusters. Seeds globose, diameter 6-7mm, black, bright. Florescence 3-5 month, month of fruit period 5-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 600-1900m sparse forests or thickets, especially in the limestone hill.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi etc..
[ character ]
Character identification of cylindrical surface stems, stems grayish brown or dark grey, with a longitudinal projection of the ribs, mammilla prickles or oval prickles scar. Hard, difficult to break, section wood of. Center round pith. Pinnately compound, alternate, flocculus 3-9, leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-oblong,8-15cm long,2.5-5cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, glabrous; petiole short. Branchlets, petioles, rachis, sometimes below the leaf midrib with small sharp thorns. Leaves leathery. Gas specific. Slightly bitter taste and spiny throat feeling.
Microscopic identification of the transverse section of the stem: cork layer for 8-15cells in a column, wall thickening. Cortex has a lot of bundles of fibers and stone cell populations; phloem parenchyma cells contain small amounts of calcium oxalate crystal diameter side,10-52μ m, xylem single arrangement. A pith, pith parenchyma cells of wood.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; temperature;
[ ] the lung meridian; kidney
[ indications ] dispel cold-dispelling; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. The main cold and dampness; stomach; colicky pain; pain; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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