Tibetan Chinese yam

[ ] C Pinyin name 's n Sh n o Y be.
[ alias ] yam
[ source ]
Source: Medicinal Dioscorea zingiberensis is a triangle.
Latin animal mineral name: Dioscorea deltoidea Wall.ex Griseb.
Harvest and storage:8-10 months of digging, washed, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original shape of triangle of Dioscorea winding herbaceous vines. The roots grow wild, ginger block. Fresh green stems, dried purple brown, have clear vertical stripes. Leaves alternate; a handle, handle long 4-10cm; leaf blade triangular-ovate or triangular hastate, usually 3lobed, middle lobe apex is gradually pointed, lobed sides round ears, do the same after dark, abaxially along veins densely white bristles. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers often2 clusters, on rachis, composition spikes; bracts membranous, ovate, apex acute; perianth cupular, apex6 crack; stamens 6, inserted on perianth tube base, the anther was a glyph with students; female inflorescences and male inflorescences are basically the same, but the stamens degenerated into flower filamentous. Capsule long wide see equal, apex concave, after the mature fruit surface densely purple-brown spotted; seeds ovoid, a ring around the different width film qualitative wing. Flowering of 5-6 months, fr.6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 2000-4000m bushes and gully broadleaved forest in.
Resource distribution: located in Yunnan, Tibet and other places.
Chemical composition of root, rhizome [ ] contains diosgenin ( diosgenin ), squalene ( squalene ). The roots contain river zingiberensis glycosides (deltonin ), triangular zingiberensis mixed glucoside ( deltoside ), yam saponin (dioscin ), the Xu three glucoside saponin
[ ] taste Gan; flat
[ function ] supplement the spleen and stomach; tonifying the lung and kidney. The main spleen diarrhea; lung deficiency chronic cough; kidney deficiency Yijing; diabetes
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g; or into the pill, powder.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/