Eight Immortals

[Source] only contained in the "Outline of Materia Medica Xinhua."

[Pinyin] Bā Xiān Guò Hǎi

[English name] Yunna Cryptocoryne

[Source]
Medicine-based sources: the Eight Immortals of Araceae plants living all over the grass.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Cryptocoryne yunnanensis H. Li
Harvesting and storage: summer, autumn harvest, washed, chopped and dried.

Eight Immortals [original form], perennial herb. Rhizome cylindrical, 3-4cm, thick up to 1cm, fork, flower initiation in the conical section of the bud eye. Leaf clusters, sessile, linear, Lianshao long 10-20cm, width 0.5-1cm, acute, entire, wavy edge or not, the central gradually narrow down gradually expanded into a white membranous sheath; the ribs on the back of the uplift . Inflorescence 1-3, bowel health inflorescence stem length 5-10mm, after the color, the next fine on coarse; spathe length 6-7cm, convolute state, tube Minister of about 1.5cm, thick about 1cm, light cyan, seamless tube state (buried in sand) containing inflorescence, drooping a lavender top inside septa, cap-like male inflorescence hold; Department of convolute-like canopy, the lower edge by the reverse merger, the upper sheet and spiral-shaped volume, length gradually sharp, dark purple outside, inside lavender, dark purple clouds spots and fine lines, bright. Spadix; female inflorescence yellow, cone-shaped; female 10, sub-2, in round 5, infertility, 5 outer, fertile, slightly with a handle, stigma large, shield-shaped; long intervals between male and female inflorescence 7 -8mm, white; yellow male inflorescence, rachis hypertrophy, fleshy, spherical appendages white, male flowers sessile, anthers 2-4, medicine ball room, pollen yellow. Aggregate fruit ovoid, long, thick about 1cm, yellow-brown; Most seeds, light brown, dense dark purple spots. Flowering November to December.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: Born in frost-free areas of flood sand, buried in the sand during the rainy season, winter exposed.
Resource distribution: distributed in Yunnan Xishuangbanna.

Chemical Composition】 【same plant C. spiralis, India for cough, antiemetic and so on. The roots contain 14-O-alkyl round-carbon acetate (ethyl-14-ox-otetraeosanoate) ,14-O-seventeen carbon alkyl-15-O-twenty carbon alkyl esters (15-oxoeicosanyl-14- oxoheptadecanoate).

[Taste] Weixin; and warm; toxic

】 【Go through the lung; liver; stomach; large intestine

【Indications】 Shujin Qufengchushi; cut malaria. Main bruises; Fengshibitong; finished a curriculum numbness; waist and atrophy of soft; acute gastroenteritis; malaria

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,6-9g.

[Note] The ban on women serving.

[Discussion of] each, "Xinhua herbal outline": functional. For bruises, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid joint pain, fever, acute gastroenteritis.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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