Orange leaf

[ source ] from south of the Five Ridges."" herbs
[ ] Pinyin name Ch e n be Y keyword
English name [ ] Leaf of Sweet Orange
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the family Rutaceae orange Citrus sinensis ( L. ) Osbeck leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Citrus sinensis ( L. ) Osbeck
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, made of fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of orange small evergreen trees, high 3-8m. Rounded crown, branched, glabrous, with spines or thorns, immature technology there are edges and corners. Leaves alternate,1-foliolate; petiole length0.6-2cm, Ye Yi2-3mm wide, narrow, apex joint; leaf quality thick, oval or ovoid, length 6-12cm, width 2.3-5.5cm, apex acute or acuminate, slightly concave, base broadly cuneate or rounded, undulating green, or have no obvious wavy toothed, a translucent oil glands. Flowers1 to several fascicled leaf axils, white, has a shank; calyx3-5 cleft, lobes triangular; petals 5, ligulate, ca.1.5cm, width of7mm, outward counter roll; stamen filaments lower19-28, even5-12beam synthesis, pistil 1, ovary subglobose,10-13 room, stigma capitate, style fine, don't fall off. Citrus fruit oblate or subglobose, diameter 6-9cm, orange or reddish orange, peel thicker, not easy to peel, pulp juice sac8-13, yellow, sweet. Seed wedge ovoid, smooth surface. Florescence in April, fruit is ripe period11-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: Cultivation in the hilly, low mountain region and the rivers and lakes along the coast.
Resource distribution: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places have cultivation.
[ ] leaf volatile oil chemical composition, main components of linalool ( linalool ), citric aldehyde ( citral ), limonene ( limonene ) etc..
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; flat;
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ ] stasis analgesic functions. The main sore sore
[ usage] external : the amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the paper south of the Five Ridges herbs were recorded: pound apply sore, can stop the pain and removing stasis.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/