Pistachio

[Source] pistachio only contained in the "Herbal Supplements", says: pistachio ... ... Health and the West Country Zhufan, the same cloud and Hu hazelnut tree, an old stick, muddy-year-old son also. "Outline" is also recorded with, citing the "sea herbal medicine" goes: according to Xu table "Southern states in mind," says: unknown wood raw Lingnan Valley, in fact Zhuangruo hazelnut, No. unknown child, call home for the Persian pistachios also. "Checklist Supplements" also recorded with, the same cloud and hazelnut. Above that is consistent with the product.

[Pinyin] ā Yuè Hún Zǐ

[Alias] Hu stick, unknown child.

[Source]
Medicine-based sources: the Anacardiaceae plant pistachio fruit.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Pistacia vera L.
Harvesting and storage 7-August harvest ripe fruit, dried for use.

[Original form] pistachio small deciduous trees, 5-7m. Branchlets stout, cylindrical, with stripes and small lenticels, was slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous; shoots often hair. Alternate odd-pinnate, usually with 3 leaflets, thin 5 leaflets; petiole above the flat, wingless or with narrow wings; leaflets sessile or almost no stem, leaves ovate or broad elliptic, 4-10cm, width 2.5 -6.5cm, top leaflets larger, apex obtuse or acute tip, with a small tip, wedge-shaped base wide, rounded or truncate, lateral leaflets at the base often asymmetric, entire, leaves glabrous above, leaves the following sparse was slightly pubescent, coriaceous. Flowers dioecious; panicles long 4-10cm, rachis and branches pubescent, with stripes, male inflorescence large, dense; male flower is 3-5, oblong, size, stamens 5-6; female perianth 3-5, oblong, membranous, margin curled eyelashes; ovary sessile, oblong, about lmm, Style is about 0.5mm. Drupe oval or oblong, stalk about 3cm, fruit large, about 2cm, width 1cm, apex acute, with a fine tip, mature yellow-green to pink. Flowering from March to May, the fruit from July to August.

[Habitat distribution]
Environment: China's Xinjiang cultivation.
Distribution of resources: production Syria, Iraq, Iran, southwestern and southern Europe, the former Soviet Union.

[Character]
Character identification fruits are oval or broad oval, slightly flat, length 1.3-2.2cm, width lcm, brown to purple, apex acute, base truncate, with pedicel scars, distorted surface vertical Hanglue edge stripes and intermittent point-like processes, peel and easy to crack; stone length 1.2-2cm, oval or oval-shaped, pointed tip, smooth, gray, hard shell, thickness of lmm. Seeds brown or grayish with purple skin, basal hilum rectangular-shaped scars, marks of about 3mm, the internal green to light green. Gas micro-and taste slightly Ganxiang.
Microscopic identification of cross-section of seed: a seed coat cells, tangentially extending rectangular; 1-2 under the column giant cells; decadent thin-walled cells often destroy vague and scattered threaded pipe, a diameter of about 10μm, cotyledon cells polygonal , oil droplets and aleurone grains.

[Taste] Xin; temperature

【Indications】 Warming; warm spleen. Primary kidney waist cold; impotence; spleen cold dysentery

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,9-15g.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"


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