Northern Androsace

[Pinyin] Běi Fānɡ Diǎn Dì Méi

[Alias] Snow Androsace, throat grass

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Primulaceae Androsace plants north of the whole plant with roots.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Androsace septentrionaiisL.
Harvesting and storage: summer, autumn uprooted, washed and dried.

[Original form] annual herb. Straight roots, taproot slender, branched root less. Rosette-like foliage single, diameter 1-6cm; sessile or under wing-shaped handle extension was wide; blades oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, long 5-30mm, width 2-6mm, apex obtuse or slightly sharp tip, usually with sparse serrated leaf margin above the middle, top and edge of the hair is short-haired and 2-4 fork, following nearly hairless. Scapes 1 to many, erect, 7-25cm, yellow-green, the lower slightly purple. Scape and pedicels are 2-4 forked hair and short glandular hairs; umbel with many flowers, bracts many, strip lanceolate, long 2-3mm; peduncle length ranging from thin, long 1-2cm, If extended period of up to 2-6 (-10) cm, was short glandular hairs; calyx bell-shaped or top-shaped, about 2.5mm, clear edge with 5, 5 lobed, lobes narrowly triangular, up to a total length of a split / 3, apex acute, the Ministry of deep color over tube; corolla white, tall dish, the same diameter and a few calyx 5 lobed, lobes obovate-oblong, about 1.2mm, width 0.6mm, nearly the whole edge of the tip ; inverted cone-shaped ovary, style length 0.3mm, stigma head-like. Spherical capsule obovate, apex 5 crack. Most seeds, polyhedron-shaped, about 0.6mm, width 0.4mm, brown, rough seed coat, with a honeycomb-like concave eye. Flowering in June, the fruit of July. Born in grassland, mountain and valley sunny. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet.

[Habitat distribution] Northern Androsace Herba Androsaces Septentrio-na1is mainly produced in eastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and northern Xinjiang. More homegrown.

[Traits] traits to identify: the main root diameter of 0.5-2mm, yellow-brown or gray-brown surface, a branch root or rootlet marks; quality slightly harder and brittle, easily broken, cross-section of yellow-white or pale yellow. Rosette leaf clusters, and more broken, with complete inverted lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly rhombic, long 8-10mm, width 2-4mm, apex obtuse or slightly acute, the lower part gradually narrow over the edge of a central sparse teeth, above a very short hair, yellow-green foliage; crisp, fragile. Scapes varying lengths, the lower yellow-green or dark purple, with a forked hair; umbel spend; corolla white. Sometimes visible crack tip 5 capsule, light orange, there are many kinds. Gas micro-, tasteless.

[Chemical composition] with more than 10 triterpene glycosides compounds were Androsace glycosides (androseptosides) A, B, C, C1, D, D1, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, etc. Aerial parts contain quercetin (quercetin), kaempferol (kaempferol), Rutin (rutin) and caffeic acid (caffeic acid) and so on.

[Bitter] taste; Xin; slightly cold

【Indications】 detoxification; swelling and pain. Lord Wind & Fire red eye; throat irritation; sore throat

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,9-30g; or a cup of tea.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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