Kou white

[ ] B I Pinyin name 's K which u
[ source ]
Medicine source: ginger plant sliding vane Alpinia chinensis fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: AIpiniatonkinensisGagnep.
Harvest and storage: fruit will be ripe when harvesting, drying or dry in the shade.
[ ] the original form of slide Ye Shan ginger, erect perennial herb. A stout stems. Petiole length 3-6cm; ligule long 1.5-2CM, blunt, leathery; leaf sheaths striate; leaf blade linear by needle form, up to 60cm, about 7cm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate, leathery, glabrous on both sides under the. Inflorescence terminal, erect, long 40-50cm, about 4cm wide, glabrous proximally, distally densely villous; flower 3-5 flower aggregated, pedicel very short; bracts ovate, fall off when the flower, ca. 1.5cm; bracteoles and bracts similar to, but smaller; calyx subcampanulate, long 9-10mm, unprovoked irregular tooth crack, side to middle of corolla tube cracking; 7-8mm, lobes oblong, long 1.5-1.8cm, concave, abaxially pilose, the rear one apex with small pointed, lower ciliate; labellum ovate or orbicular, length 1.4cm, width l-1.2cm, apex retuse, base slightly contraction; lateral staminodes linear, short, filaments long 4-5mm, long 6mm, anthers; ovary globose, be silky villous. Flowering of 2-3 months, fr. 4-6.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: montane, roadside and grass wet land.
Resource distribution: distribution in Guangxi and.
[ character ]
Character identification: capsule is long elliptic, long 1.2-1.6cm, the surface is smooth, yellowish brown, to peel after 3 rooms, each room is seed 4-8 particle, endocarp and aril is closely wrapped with the seed group, is not easy to separate; the seed is not regular, about 6mm in diameter, back uplift, and has a shallow trench, seed face Tan Brown, with vertical lines. Aril white. Gas micro, pungent, bitter.
Microscopic identification: peel transverse: exocarp cells consisting of 1 columns of square. Mesocarp of stone cell with 1 columns of cells, stone cells extend radially, wall is not very thick, pits, holes, wherein the groove was scattered in the vascular bundle. Parenchyma cells contain a large number of small crystal or amorphous crystallization. The aril is thicker, consists of several layers of cells, the outer cells of long, blunt ends. Visible calcium oxalate crystal.
[ ] taste acrid in taste and warm;
[ ] functions Qi appetizer. The main epigastric pain; dyspepsia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-9g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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