Melaleuca skin

[Pinyin] Bái Qiān Cénɡ Pí

[Alias​​] Melaleuca skin

[Source]
Medicine-based source: Myrtaceae Melaleuca bark of plants.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Melaleuca leucadendron
Harvesting and storage: stripping all year round, washed, dried or fresh use.

[Form of] the original tree, up to 18m. Bark gray, thick, soft, thin shape was peeling off. Twigs gray. Leaves alternate; petiole very short; blade coriaceous, lanceolate or narrowly oblong, long 4-10cm, width of 1-2cm, both ends of the tip, entire margin, oil glands and more aroma; basal veins 3 - 7. Flowers white, in dense spikes into the top branches, rachis often have short hair; calyx tube ovoid, 3mm, hairy or glabrous, calyx teeth 5, round, about 1mm; petals 5, ovate, length 2-3mm, width 3mm; stamens many, green and white with a length of about 1cm, usually 5-8 pieces into bundles, anthers back the health, medicine room parallel to the longitudinal; ovary inferior, connate with the calyx tube, apex prominent , 3 rooms, style linear, slightly longer than the stamens, stigma much expanded. Capsule nearly spherical, diameter 5-7mm, nearly triangular seeds. Flowering several times a year.

[] Bark with the chemical composition of lignin (lignin) 54.2%, other factors including the Melaleuca (melaleucin) [2].

[Taste] tasteless; natured

【Indications】 nerves; detoxification. Primary insomnia; dreams; mind uneasy; wounds fester

Oral Dosage: Decoction,3-9g. Topical: the amount, pound deposited.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"
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