Cleome gynandra

[ source ] from the" Chinese medicine".
[ ] B I Hu Pinyin name 's C, I Z.
English name [ ] Spiderflower Seed
[ alias ] stinky flower seed.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Cleome cauliflower Cleome gynandra L seed.
Latin animal mineral name: Cleome gynandra L.
Harvest and storage: 7-9 month when the pod yellow-white slightly dry, the seeds were dark brown, partial recovery, in order to avoid the falling. Also can be pod all cooked, cut the whole plant, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original morphology of Cleome erect annual herb high branches, about 1m. Often glandular hairs. Leaf 3-7 lobular palmately compound leaves, petiole length 2-7cm, petiolule length 2-4mm; leaflets obovate-elliptic, oblanceolate or rhombic, apex acuminate, acute, blunt or rounded, base cuneate to attenuate the extension into petiolule, margin serrulate or glandular hairs, central lobular long l-5cm, wide 8-16mm, side unripe flocculus is reduced. Racemes long 15-30cm; Cang sheet consists of 3 leaflets; pedicel ca. 1.5cm; sepals separation, lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, long 3-6mm, width 1-2mm, are glandular hairs; petals white, rarely yellowish or pale purple, in bud period not covered with stamen and pistil, even claw long 10-27mm, limb nearly rounded or broadly obovate, wide 2-6mm; disk slightly fleshy, stamens 6, extend corollaceous outside; androgynophore longer 5-18mm; gynophore in bisexual flowers long 4-10mm, long 1-2mm in male flowers, with or without a; ovary line column, style is short, stigmas capitate. Fruit cylindrical, inclined lift, long 3-8cm, the middle diameter is 3-4mm; seeds oblate, dark brown, surface having transverse wrinkles or more often with warty projections. Flower, fruit period at about 7-10 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in low altitude area fields, moorland.
Resource distribution: distribution in North China and the south to Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan and other places.
[ character ]
Character identification of seeds oblate, diameter 1-1.5mm, about LMM thick, edge has a groove. Surface brown or dark brown, rough, to enlarge mirrors were observed under surface with protrusions, fine reticulate, square or polygonal meshes, arrange more rules or concentric ring. Longitudinal visible U shaped curved embryo radicle, dark brown, cotyledon and radicle length, light brown, endosperm lump extraembryonic, pale yellow, oily. Gas, bitter in taste. In order to grain full, black people.
Microscopic identification of seed transverse: epidermal cell wall thickness, papillary protrusions or a plurality of mastoid connected into hair shape, with brown pigment, in transverse section is a round of the dentate; epidermal pigment layer, cell forms a long strip shape, to extend the cut, slightly undulate: rules under which 1 rows of stone cells, 40-6 m, diameter 4-10 m; testa epidermal L-2 column stone cell, a tangentially extending arrangement, long 60-80 / m, 12-16 / m diameter. Endosperm and embryo of the parenchyma, containing a fatty oil material.
[ ] the cauliflower seed chemical composition containing glucose buckling of (glucoiberine ), cauliflower glycosides (glucocaparine), the new glucose in hormone (neoglucoberassicin), glucose (glucobrassicin ) in Brassica, Cleome spinosa element ( cleomin ). It contains fat 17.6%-25.0%, the main fatty acids linolenic acid ( linolenic acid ) 52.82%, palmitic acid ( palmitic acid ) 18.41% ( oleic acid 15.39% ), oleic acid, stearic acid ( stearic 8.07% acid ), arachidonic acid ( arachidic acid ) 1.96%.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin; temperature; the small poison
[ ] to the heart; spleen meridian
[ function ] dispel cold-dispelling; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. The main cold and numb; shoulder and back pain; pain; leg cold; traumatic bruises pain; bone tuberculosis; hemorrhoids fistula
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g. External : the amount, water decoction fumigation.
[ ] the discussion
1" classes" : the water decoction, wash hemorrhoids; mash, apply rheumatism; tracing wine, stopping malaria.
2" Anhui medicine": dispel wind and moisture, activating blood and relieving pain.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/