Rhododendron

Source. From "Compendium of Materia Medica". [name] D ù Ju ā n Hu. [alias] red Rhododendron molle, mountain, pomegranate, azalea, Rhododendron, chemical, brilliant Yamahana, return of red mountain Rhododendron, clear and bright flowers, red wood, 爿花 Erigeron safflower, camellia, flowers, birds and insects primroses, azalea, rhododendron flowers, flowers, flowers bright spring Changchun, Ying Chunhua [source] Medicine source: to Rhododendron Rhododendron flower. Latin plant animal mineral name: Rhododendron simsii Planch.[R Sweet var.simsii Maxim in－dicum; R.indicum (L.) Sweet var.Ignescens Sweet] Harvesting and storage: Recovery 4 ~ May flowers, dried. The original form [] deciduous or semi evergreen shrub, high 2-5m. Much branched, young branchlets densely red brown or brown and compressed strigose, old branches grayish yellow, glabrous, bark diastema. Flower buds ovate, the middle part of the back is brown strigose, margin ciliate. Ye Erxing; spring leaves papery, short summer long, leathery, ovate elliptic, or ovate lanceolate, 3-6cm long, 2-3cm wide, apex acute, with mucro, base cuneate, entire, surface sparsely covered with reddish brown strigose, abaxially densely brown strigose, veins more many. Flowers 2-6, umbels, fascicled branch end; pedicels ca. 5-8mm; calyx deeply 5 - lobed, lobes ovate to lanceolate, long 3-7mm, outside densely strigose and eyelashes; corolla broadly funnelform, rose - pink, purple, long 3-5cm, 5 - lobed, lobes obovate, above 1 flap and nearly 2 flap with deep red spots; stamens 10, dilute 7-9, filaments puberulent in lower part, anthers purple; ovary ovoid, room 5, long 5-8mm, densely long flat hairy, styles slender. Capsule ovoid, 1-1.2cm long, densely brown strigose, persistent calyx. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 7-9. [distribution] Ecological environment: born in hilly or flat, sparsely shrubs. Resource distribution: distribution in the Yangtze River and South East of Taiwan, around, West to Sichuan, Yunnan. [culture] Biological characteristics of hi sun, but avoid sun exposure, to acidic soil, avoid containing calcareous alkaline earth. Should be in cool and humid environment cultivation. Cultivation techniques of mass production of usable sow reproduction. The temperature is maintained at 15 ~ 20 ℃, relative humidity 60%, 2 ~ 3 weeks after sowing to germination. To preserve the seed can also be ramet reproduction. In addition, cutting and layering is also easy to survive. [] flower containing chemical composition of anthocyanin and flavonoid glycosides. Anthocyanins have been identified there are cyanidin 3- glucoside (cyanidin3-glucoside), cyanidin 3- galactoside (cyanidin 3 galactpside), cyanidin 3- 阿立伯 glucoside (cyanidin-3 - arabinoside), cyanidin 3, 5 - two glucoside (cyanidin－3, 5-diglucoside), cyanidin 3- galactoside -5- glucoside (cyanidin3－galactoside-5-glucoside); paeoniflorin 3, 5- two glucoside (peonidin 3, 5-diglucoside) [1,2], and malvidin glucoside (3, 5- two malvidin3, 5-diglucoside) [1]. Flavone and flavone glycoside compound with rutin (rutin), cuckoo yellow glucoside (azalein) [3], quercetin (quercetin), azaleatin (azaleatin) [4]; kaempferol (kaempferol), 5- ether 3- galactoside (5 methyl ether 3 Galacto side), azaleatin 3- galactoside (azaleatin3－galactoside) Rhododendron, flavin 3- rhamnoside (azaleatin 3－rhamnoside), myricetin 5- ether 3- rhamnoside (myricetin5－methyl ether 3－rhamnoside), myricetin 5- ether 3- galactoside (myricetin5－methyl ether 3 - galactoside), gossypetin 3- galactoside (gossypetin3 galactoside) [1], quercetin 3- galactoside (quercetin3 galacetoside), quercetin 3- rhamnoside (quercetin 3 Rham noside), quercetin glucoside (3- Arabia quercetin 3 - arabinoside) [1]. [] pharmacological effects of intraperitoneal injection of azalea decoction has antitussive (cough caused by ammonia water spray), the ethyl acetate extract, chloroform extract and its mother liquor, the separated crystal armor and crystallization B (flavonoids) has antitussive effect. Mice fed with expectorant Decoction (Fen Hongfa). Guinea pig celiac injection without relieving Decoction (histamine spray method). [taste] Gan; acid; flat [] liver meridian; spleen; kidney [indications] and blood; menstruation; cough; rheumatism; solution sore. The main blood; nose bleeding; uterine bleeding; abnormal menstruation; cough; rheumatoid arthritis; carbuncle furuncle carbuncle [usage]: Decoction taken orally, 9-15g. External: pound deposited amount. [attach] treat leucorrhoea square (1 square "Zhejiang common folk herbal medicine"): Rhododendron, pigs claws, cook. 2 treatment of epistaxis Party ("Guizhou herbal"): Rhododendron, angelica, shuijianbi. [the paper] 1 "classification": Herbal cure vomiting blood, metrorrhagia, go cold, and blood. 2 "Guizhou folk prescription set": treating irregular menstruation, stop red collapse; leaching liquor orally, can cure rheumatism. Stop the pain. 3 "Sichuan": history of Chinese medicine treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding from hemorrhoids and internal cough. [] excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/