White Smilax glabra

[ ] B I T Pinyin name 's F L n to be grave and cabinet
[ alias ] Bai Bixie, clay Ling, tuckahoe, iron shelves tuckahoe, nine cattle, Flemingia Bi sativa, soil
[ source ]
Medicine source: Liliaceae bullbrier tuber.
Latin animal mineral name: Heterosmilax japonica Kunth
Harvest and storage: spring, autumn two season of excavation, removal of reed stems, washed, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of bullbrier climbing shrub. Branchlets glabrous, with a blunt edge. Leaves alternate; petiole length l-3cm, in lower 1 / 3-1 / 4 with tendrils and narrow sheath; leaves papery, ovate or cordate needle shape, length 6-20cm, width 2.5-12cm, apex acuminate or short acuminate, have short cusp, base or cordate; primary veins 5-7, small veins reticulate. Umbel borne in leaf axils, or born brown bracts; total flower is flat, long 1-3cm; inflorescence holds the ball; pedicels slender, long 2-7mm, male perianth tube oblong or obovate, long 3.5-4.5mm, the top has 3 obtuse teeth, 3 stamens, ca. 2 / 3 as perianth, anther length filament 1 / 2; female perianth Jane ovate, long 2.5-3mm, with 3 staminodes, ovary ovoid, stigmas 3 crack. Berry ovoid.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 500-1800m hillside woods or forest under the road.
Resource distribution: located in Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan etc..
[ character ]
1 character identification : roots was irregular shape, length 10-30cm, diameter 5-8cm, surface tawny, rough, hard fibrous residues, section around the center white, yellow, pink and pieces of thick l-3cm; section slightly rough, also has a small window, soft, mild.
2: microscopic identification of rhizome transverse: epidermal much loss, mesothelial cell 3-5 column, yellowish brown, closely arranged, thick wall, visible wall hole. Cortex have mucous cells, containing raphides. Vascular bundles scattered, as Zhou Mu, woody several diameter proximate the catheter.
3 physicochemical identification: tuckahoe road.
[ ] the chemical composition containing beta sitosterol (sitosteroI ), palmitic acid and stearic acid ( palmaiticacid ) ( stearic acid ).
[ ] taste Gan; light; flat
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness; alexipharmic detumescence. The main stranguric urination astringent; whitish; belt; boils
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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