Snake Drugs

[ source ] from the Guangzhou air force" commonly used Herbal Handbook"
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Shé Yà o
[ English ] Root or bark of Fragrant name heteropanax
[ alias ] Acanthopanax, grandma's umbrella
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for Araliaceae proclaimed umbrella Maple root, bark or leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Heteropanax fragrans ( Roxb. ) Seem.[Panax fragrans Roxb.; Hedera fragrans D. Don]
Harvest and storage: the autumn and winter, digging root or stripping bark, washing, slicing, fresh or dried. Ye Quannian can be collected, many fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen trees, tall5-30cm bust up to 70cm. Bark grayish brown, fleshy, juicy, deep ratio crack; branches stout, unarmed. Three to five back pinnate, alternate, diameter up to50-100cm; petiolar long 15-30cm, glabrous or glabrescent, lobular pomelo ca.1cm with or without grapefruit, terminal petiolule sometimes much longer; leaves papery, in vane shaft opposite, elliptic, long 5.5-13cm, wide 3.5-6cm, apex mucronate, base cuneate, margin entire, both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 6-10 pairs. Inflorescence terminal, long 30-40cm, spindle and branching free dog health stellate tomentose, fall off gradually after; the umbrella, inflorescence capitate, diameter of about1.2cm, with the flower counts; calyx villous, ca.2mm, edge has 5triangular denticles; petals 5, ovate, ca.2mm, yellowish white, outside sparsely tomentose; stamens 5, filaments longer than petals, ca.2mm; ovary inferior, room 2, styles 2, free, shaped exhibition. Fruit ovoid, slightly laterally compressed, long 7mm,3-5mm thick, black, septicidal with two longitudinal grooves, convex latch style ca.2mm. Seed 2, flat. Florescence autumn, winter ripe fruit.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born below elevation 1000m forest, gardens occasionally cultivated.
Resource distribution: distribution in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] root chemical composition containing oleanolic acid ( oleanolic acid ), daucosterol ( dau-costerol ), Melaleuca acid ( melaleucic acid ),3 βtwo hydroxy -20(29) - either with -27,28- two carboxylic acid of [3 β,23-dihydroxy-20(29) -lupene-27,28-dioic acid] and Melaleuca acid -28-O- [α-L- rhamnose (1- 4) -β -D- glucoside (1 → 6]-β -D- glucoside
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ indications ] Liangxue Jiedu Xiaozhong Zhitong. The main cold heat; heat headache; carbuncle boils swollen poison; Luo Li; rheumatoid arthritis; traumatic injury; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g. External: amount, trace and apply; or Decoction wash.
[ ] the paper1Guangzhou air force" commonly used Herbal Handbook for promoting blood circulation, reduce swelling, pain. Treatment of burn, pustule sore, acute febrile. 2" Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine new selection:" Liangxue detoxification, swelling and pain, necrotizing cellulitis with lymphadenitis, furuncle, innominate toxic swelling, osteomyelitis, fracture, sprain, acute rheumatic arthritis, snake bites, wind-heat cold, heat headache.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/