The burden of seven

[Pinyin] Bāo Fu Qī

[Alias] bowl of water, steel frame powder, the burden of lotus, a brick

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Berberidaceae plant water octagonal lotus root and rhizome.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Dysosma difformis (Hemsl.et Wils.) THWang [Podophyllum difformis Hemsl.et Wils.]
Harvesting and storage 4-October harvest, washed, dried or fresh use.

[Form of] the original octagonal lotus water for many years an herb. Play upright, thin, hairless, yellow-brown thin paper base of the scale leaf coated. Roots cross walk, a small, nearly circular section between the bowl-shaped pits, the majority of raw lateral surface yellow-brown, is white or pale yellow hair. Leaves alternate, thin paper; leaf petiole was born in the middle of a long 5-10cm; leaves usually 2, 3 thin, ranging from large leaves, table-like variety, often eccentric shape, length 5-11cm, width 8-- 18cm, tip for the wide wedge-shaped, base mostly rounded, sometimes with a purple top, green below, or Jay Green, with marginal or sometimes no obvious split 4-8 lobed, with sparse glandular teeth. Umbel with 2-5 flowers flowers, was born not far away from the leaf petiole near the top office, pedicels less than 2cm, the next bend, with long soft hair; sepals caducous; 6 petals, dark red, light-like oblong; stamens 6, about 7mm, in turn, anther tip extending into a fine tip. Ovary superior, in a room. Berries small, spherical. Most seeds. April-June flowering, the fruit from June to September.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in 800-1800m above sea level students hillside forest.
Resource distribution: distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

[Character]
Character identification, the roots of the massive summit of irregular diameter 3-6mm, red-brown surface, part of the unexpected apparent, there are many to be like the root. Root length up to 10cm, diameter 0.5-1.5mm, the surface of brown, with longitudinal fine texture, fibrous scar dot-like, yellow. Hard, flat surface roots break the skin stenosis, the Ministry of yellow wood, ring out, protruding hip round, yellow-white; root fracture surface flat, yellow dot in the column, slightly darker color. Gas micro-, bitter taste.
Microscopic identification, root cross-section: epidermal cells 1. Cortical parenchyma cells and some walls of wood, with pits, near a number of vascular bundles at the hash groups of fibers and stone cells. Vascular outside the tough type, compression-like phloem; xylem cells inside a stone base, stone cells and more oval, colporate obvious. Pulp large, by the thin-walled cells. This product contains herbal calcium crystal clusters and starch grains.
Root cross-section: epidermal cells 1. Cortex, a broad, obvious in the cortex. Primary xylem 4-5 prototype, all of the central fiber, fiber polygonal, wall thickness, strong wood of the hole trench clear, cell-shaped holes.

[Identification] of this product meal 1g, ethanol 10ml, extraction and 20min, filtration. Filtrate 1ml, plus 3% sodium carbonate solution 1ml, heated in boiling water bath 3min, cool to add a new preparation of diazotization reagents to 2 drops of red color; alternative filtrate 1ml, add 4-5 drops of hydrochloric acid and a small amount of magnesium in boiling water bath 3min, was red.

[] Bitter taste; Xin; of cool; toxic

】 【Go through the lung; liver

【Indications】 detoxification; phlegm; stasis and relieve pain. Main sore throat; carbuncle swollen; boils; pneumonia; mumps; snakebite; M. scrofulaceum; bruises

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,3-12g; mill juice or wine dip coating, smashed into powder and apply or transfer apply the affected area.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"
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