The mountains of sesame

[ ] Pinyin name Dà Shā n Zh īM
[ alias ] mountain in Yau Ma Tei, fake sesame seed.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Sterculiaceae sword leaf Hill sesame root.
Latin botanical name: Helicteres lanceolata DC. animal fossil
Harvest and storage: Winter digging root, washed sand, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original form of sword leaf Hill sesame shrubs, tall 1-2m. Branchlets densely yellow-brown stellate pubescent. Ye Husheng; petiolar long 3-9mm, densely stellate pilose; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate,3.5-7.5cm long,2-3cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base obtuse, yellow-brown stellate pubescent on both surfaces, especially in the dense, entire or a plurality of small teeth near apex. Flowers fascicled or lined up1-2cm cymes, axillary; flowers small, ca.12mm; calyx tubular,5lobed, by fluff; petals 5, red purple, ranging from large; androgynophore base by fluff; stamens 10, anthers extrorse, staminodes 5, strip lanceolate; Ovarian 5 rooms, each room about 12. Capsule cylindric, long 2-2.5cm, width of 8mm, apex beaked, densely covered with long hair. Florescence 7-11 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in hillside grass or bushes.
Resource distribution: distribution in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] cultivation
1biological characteristics : be fond of warm and humid climate, the temperature of 25-30℃rapid growth, slow growth in autumn. Lax to edaphic requirement, drought and barren tolerance. To loosen, containing humic rich loam cultivation is appropriate.
2: reproduction by seed cultivation technology. Spring in late March to late April, according to the spacing of35cm ditching, ditch depth of 3-4cm, the seeds are uniformly scattered into the trench, after covering soil slightly repression, watering, keep the soil moist,15-20 days when the seedling emergence, about 20cm, according to35cm× 35cm open hole spacing transplanting, seedling per2-3strains, plant after pressing, irrigate enough water root.
3field management: first years after planting, weeding3-4 times, and combined with dressing. Second years after the year3, weeding, and in the spring, Kawa Aki, winter the topdressing compost or manure fertilizer1 times, after the earth.
[ ] the taste of spice; bitter cold;
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and toxic material. The main cold and fever; cough; measles; malaria; malaria
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/