Ailei

[Source] from the "Chinese medicinal plants in desert areas."

[Pinyin] āi Lěi

[Source] source based medicine: as gentian plants one hundred flowers of the whole plant with flowers.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Centaurium pulchellum Druce var.al-taicum (Griseb.) Kitag.et Hara [Erythraea ramosissima var.al-taica Griseb.; Centaurium meyeri (Bunge) Druce]
Harvesting and storage: flowering when collected, the washed and dried.

[Original form] annual herb, 20-40cm. Whole plant glabrous. Stems erect, nearly prism, multi-branched. Leaves opposite; sessile; basal leaves oval or ovate-elliptic, 6-16mm, width 3-6mm, tip blunt tip, oval-shaped upper leaves lanceolate, apex acute, like bract-like, long 6-- 13mm, width 2-4mm; with three veins. Most flower, arranged in the evacuation of two discrimination-type cyme, with slender stems; calyx 5 deep cleft, lobes subulate, the veins were protruding in the back of the high ridge; Corolla funnel-shaped, white or pink, 1.5 cm, the Ministry of corolla tube narrow, tip 5 lobed, lobes short, oblong, length 2.7-3.2mm; stamens 5, slightly exposed, was born in the corolla throat, filaments short, linear, about 2mm, anthers oblong, volume for the spiral; ovary superior, 2 rooms, oval, long 7 - Long 7.5-9mm, Style accommodation deposit. Seeds spherical, dark brown, the surface light honeycomb network gap. Flowers, fruit from July to September.

[Habitat distribution] environment: Born in 50-2200m above sea level wet wasteland or next to the beach water.
Resource distribution: distributed in northeast, north, northwest, east and south China coastal areas.

[Bitter] taste; cold

】 【Go through the liver; stomach

【Indications】 detoxification. Main hepatitis; cholecystitis; headache, fever; toothache; tonsillitis

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang,6-9g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"


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