Cynanchum

[ source ] from the" Henan Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine"
Pinyin name ] [ Dì Shā o Gu.
[ ] Herb of Bastardtoadflax-like Swallowwort English name
[ alias ] female green, hill, sweet potato, sheep milk and fruit, small gourd ladle, floating tree, old melon scoop, grandma, grandma, horse sand sand grass, milk, melon, Finch tenuifolia Cynanchum auriculatum Luo Hancao, sweet potato, sweet potato, gourd ladle to Ge, Panlong grass, shoots melon, bovine goat grass, sheep and dairy
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: dicotyledonous plants for medicine Asclepiadaceae plants by white in front of the whole grass.
Latin animal mineral name: 1.Cynanchum thesioides ( Freyn ) K. Schum.2.Cynanchum thesioides ( Freyn ) K. Schum.var.aus-trale ( Maxim. ) Tsiang et P.T.Li[C.sibiricum R.Br.var.aus-trale Maxim. Et Kom.]
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest, washed, dried
[ ] the original morphology
1of Cynanchum erect subshrub. Single axis horizontal underground stem. Stems branched from base I. Leaves opposite or subopposite; leaf blade linear, long 3-5cm, wide 2-5mm, midvein raised below. Umbellate cymes axillary; calyx puberulent outside; corolla green and white; corona cup-shaped, lobes triangular-lanceolate, gradually close, high connective diaphragm. Follicles fusiform, apex acuminate, enlargement of the central, length 5-6cm, diameter 2cm. Seeds flat, dark brown,8mm long, silky hair white, up to 2cm. Florescence 5-8 month, month of fruit period 8-10.
2 a gourd seeds and similar stems weak, ramose less, the stem end is generally elongate and winding. Leaves linear or linear-oblong; flowers smaller, more. Florescence 3-8 month, month of fruit period 5-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment:1 born in altitude 200-2000m hill, sand dunes and dry valley, moorland, the edge of the field.
2born in the gutter and riverbank slopes, roadsides or bushes or grass.
Resource distribution:1Distribution in Northeast, North China and Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Gansu, Xinjiang, Jiangsu and other places.
2located in Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and other places.
[ character ]
Character identification (1) of Cynanchum full row15-30cm long, often curved, aboveground pubescent. Roots slender, brown, with long roots. Stem twining, many from base partial branch, cylindrical, with longitudinal wrinkles; light, brittle, easily broken. Leaves opposite, broken off, to complete the flat after a bar, long 3-5cm, wide 2-5cm, entire. Flowers small, yellowish white. Follicles fusiform, surface with longitudinal wrinkles. Gas micro, astringent.
(2) birds scoop stems twining, ramose less; leaves oblong strip or strips.
[ ] chemical ingredient from Cynanchum herb isolated;β- sitosterol (β -sitos-terol ), daucosterol ( daucosterol ), ferulic acid, succinic acid ( ferulic acid ) ( suc-cinic acid ), sugar ( sucrose ), quercetin ( quercetin ),1, .3-O- two methyl inositol (1,3-O-dimethyl-myo-inositol ) [1]; also reported separation wasβ - amyrin acetate ( acetateβ-amyrin ), lupeol ester ( lupeol acetate ),α- amyrin n-octyl ester ( caprylateα-amyrin ),1,3- two -2- sorbic acyl palmitoyl - glycerol ( glyceride-1,3-dipalmito-2-sorbate ), Anagi So ( tamarixetin ), tamarisk pigment -3-O- β-D- galactoside ( tamarixetin-3-O- β-D-galactopyrano-side ), Cynanchum glycosides ( thesioideoside ) [2]. A ladle full of grass isolated from Tamarix hormone (tamarixetin ) and quercetin ( puercetin ) [3].
[ ] the pharmacological effects of extract, in vitro have in fact do virus [1].
[ ] taste sweet and cool;
[ ] the lung meridian
[ ] functions of Tonifying the lung qi; heat reduce pathogenic fire; thirst; anti-inflammatory analgesics. The main pathological inflammation; sore throat; Yin deficiency; weary amnesia; virtual annoying thirst; dizziness insomnia; postpartum weakness; lack of milk
[ usage]:15-30g, oral decoction.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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