Bai Le

[ ] B I L 's Pinyin name keyword
English name [ ] Acanthopanax Trifoliate Root-bark
[ alias ] Wujiapi, Liriodendron, clover and three, thorn
[ source ] to Araliaceae Bai Le Acanthopanax trifoliatus ( L. ) Merr. Root bark. Summer, autumn digging roots, cleaning, stripping bark root, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of climbing shrub, tall 1 ~ 7m, branchlets sparsely downward barb. Leaves palmately compound, leaflets 3, rarely 4 or 5, central 1 large, elliptic-ovate to long elliptic, long 2 ~ 8cm, width of 1.5 ~ 4cm, apex acute or short acuminate, base cuneate, margin serrate, glabrous or only along veins sparsely prickly hairs; petioles 2 total ~ 5cm, sparsely barb. Umbels 3 to 10 branchlets top, rarely simple life, calyx with 5 teeth; petals 5, yellowish green; stamens 5; ovary 2 room, styles 2, connate to middle. Fruit oblate, black at maturity. Florescence 8 to in September, fruit period in October.
[ ] was born in the hillside habitat distribution, forest edges, shrub in. Distributed in the north of the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains, but in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River about north of 31 degrees latitude north to south, throughout the production.
[ character ] the root bark of irregular tubular, slightly curved, with thickness of 0.5 ~ 1mm. The outer surface of the ash brown, lenticels small, round or slightly laterally extending, the length of 0.8 to 3 5mm, 0.5 ~ 1mm in diameter; the inner surface of gray brown. Fractured surface has brown punctate resin canal, visible where the bright yellow brown oleoresin. Micro gas smell, taste slightly acrid, bitter.
[ ] different chemical composition containing kauri acid (kaurenoic acid ), beta sitosterol.
[ ] with the functions of acanthopanax.
[ ] * dictionary" excerpt"
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