A root

Pinyin name ] [ Dì Lí n Gē n
[ alias ] cypress spirit root
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Oleaceae plants purple medicine privet root.
Latin botanical name: Ligustrum dela-vayanum Hariot animal fossil
Harvest and storage: annual or collected in autumn, washed the dirt, slice, fresh or dry time.
[ ] the original morphology of Bush, tall 1-4m. Bark grayish brown or brown; branchlets brown or grayish brown, cylindrical or slightly angled, densely pubescent. Leaves simple, opposite; petiole 1-5mm. Puberulent, canaliculate; leaf blade thinly leathery, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, long 1-4cm, wide 0.6-1.5cm, dilute the larger, up to 9cm long, apex acute or acuminate, sometimes obtuse to subrounded, thin tail tip, base ministry gradually narrow or suborbicular, leaf margin revolute, sometimes only along midvein pubescent above. Panicle densely flowered, often subterete, or sometimes only with a few flower clusters, usually inserted in the last branches axillary or lateral branchlets top; peduncle0-2.5cm long, densely pubescent or setae, because obviously angulate; bracts linear or subulate,1-6mm long; calyx is long1-2mm, with triangular teeth or subtruncate; corolla4-7.5mm long, corolla tube length2.5-5mm; filaments long1.5-2mm, shorter than corolla lobes with the lobes subequal or. Anthers purple, long 1.5-2mm; style long1-3mm, hidden in the corolla tube, stigma clavate. Fruit ellipsoid or spherical, length 5-9mm, diameter 4-7mm, black, often be white; fruiting pedicels long 1-5mm. Florescence 5-7 month, month of fruit period 7-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in thickets on slopes or under forest.
Resource distribution: located in Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, sichuan.
[ ] taste bitter cold;
[ indications ] diuresis; stomachic. The main hot diaper shower; hepatitis; dyspepsia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,5-10g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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