A real education Wei

[Source] from the "Xinjiang Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook."

[Pinyin] ā Yù Wèi Shí

[English name] Seed of Ajowan-caraway

[Source]
Medicine-based Source: Umbelliferae Ayu Wei fruit.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague
Harvesting and storage: June mature fruit harvest, remove impurities and dried.

[Original form] annual herb, 30-100cm. Starting from the base of the stem branches, glabrous, with fine longitudinal grooves. Split three times pinnate leaves, lobes narrow-linear back end of a long 5-10mm, nearly hairless; petiole expanded into a sheath-like. Re umbrella Inflorescences and lateral, umbrella spokes usually 8-10, unequal length; bracts 4-6, lanceolate, long 6-10mm; spent most of a small umbel; small bracts and phyllaries the same shape; flowers white; calyx teeth obvious; petals oval, 2 crack the top light, there is within the fold of the uvula film, margin ciliate; Style flat conical base, style fold out. Fruit oval, about 1.5mm, with papillary hair very short, ridge-shaped fruit, endosperm ventral straight, edge tank with tubing 1, together with tubing 2 dough. Flowering in May, the fruit of June.

[Habitat distribution] China's Xinjiang Hotan, Kashgar region in general cultivation.

[Character]
This product is double-hanging fruit character identification, oval or broad oval, slightly flat, about 2mm, diameter 1.5-2mm; surface of the light gray-brown or grayish yellow green, top left has a small protrusion of the Style base, conical, base sometimes with slender stalk. Sub-oval fruit, longitudinal ribs line 5, to help the depression between the color darker, surface densely papillary hair, flat joints, the central slightly darker color. Pentagonal cross-section slightly blunt. With a specific aroma, spicy.
Microscopic identification of cross-section of fruit: an exocarp cells, rectangular or polygonal, with more single-celled glandular papillary, non-glandular hairs, mesocarp cells, 6-7 columns, polygonal, oblong, oval or irregular in shape, extend the tangent, this layer tubing 6, the larger, oval-shaped, yellow-brown, the ridge between the 1, 2 joints, ridge at a vascular bundle 1, 2 joints ridge at a vascular one, a kind of spinal joints vascular bundle 1. 1 layer of cells within the skin, rectangular, tangent to the extension; yellow-brown seed coat cells; endosperm cells rectangular, square or polygonal, in vague powder, oil droplets and small cubic; central to embryo.
Powder characteristics: brownish-green or yellow-green. Single-cell glandular hairs, were papillary, long 50-270μm; single-cell non-glandular hairs, long 50-120μm; endosperm cells polygonal, oil droplets and aleurone grains, and sometimes that small cubic; wood fibers with bordered pits often hole; diameter of 9-20μm; within the seed coat reticulate cell wall of wood; sublimation as yellow needle crystal.

[] With the chemical composition of volatile oil (essential oil) [1], there are thymol (thymol) which NATIONS Distr vanilla phenol [2].

Pharmacological effects Ayu Wei fact contained in the thymol on the mouth, throat mucosa bactericidal, fungicidal effect; also corrosion on dental caries cavity, local anesthesia. Can be used for purulent skin infections and fungal infections, or actinomycosis. In addition, thymol has driven the role of hookworm, has been for other less toxic drugs instead. Similar to its toxicity and phenol, but no phenol strong local role. Overdose, the patient can be abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, excitability may occur after absorption, but rarely convulsions. A Yu Wei real oil containing 30% phenol, can poison the worms. Higher concentration of alcohol extract (10%) of Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli was inhibited, it was diluted when used as a respiratory disease expectorant.

[Identification]
Physical and chemical identification of this product meal 2g, add 10ml of ethanol dipping 30min, filtration, the filtrate for the following tests: (1) take filtrate 1ml, 0.3-0.4ml diluted with water, add 5% sodium nitrite, 5% aluminum nitrate solution 3 drops of each, plus 4-6 drops of 10% sodium hydroxide solution. Was cherry red.
(2) filtrate 1ml, 0.5ml diluted with water, add 1-2 drops of 3% ferric chloride test solution, wet blue and brown.

[Taste] Weixin; bitter; and warm

【Indications】 cold pain; dampness detoxification. The main abdominal Leng Tong; indigestion; Oue; diarrhea; Han Shan; dysmenorrhea; urinary tract stones; sore Boil poison

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,3-6g; or powder. External: amount Jiantang wash.

[Discussion of] each, "Xinjiang Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": dispelling dampness, qi appetizers, pain. Government paralysis, convulsions, cold stomach pain, indigestion, bladder and urinary tract stones.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"


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