White Achyranthes

[ ] from Yunnan Materia Medica".".
[ ] B I Ni Pinyin name 's X cabinet
[ alias ] Tai Chi, and son, rattan grass dog Achyranthes bidentata, short petal pink, dog Beijing cranberries, Eupatorium, cramps, buckle kernel swing, grass, rattan raw tobacco loose rib
[ source ]
Medicine source: Caryophyllaceae short petal flower root or the whole plant.
Latin animal mineral name: Brachystemma calycinu D.Don
Harvest and storage: in summer and autumn, washed clean, dried.
[ ] her original form annual herb. Stems climbing on a bush, high 2m, often with 4 ridges, occasionally 6 prism, light, distally sparsely pilose, all glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole length 2-6cm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, long 3.5-7.5cm, apex acute, base rounded or tapered into a handle, entire, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely pilose. Cymes terminal, row into a conical shape; pedicels long 2-5mm; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, sparsely pilose; sepals 5, narrowly ovate, submembranous, translucent, 5 veins; petals 5, white, lanceolate, margin entire; stamens 10, opposite petals and 5 degradation, filament radical width and length; ovary globose, glabrous, style 2, wire shape, with long stigma. Capsule globose, than the night deposit sepals shorter, 4 valves, with 1 seed. Seed, kidney shaped spherical, having protrusions.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 2700m below the mountain forest edge.
Resource distribution: located in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, sichuan.
[ character ] dry slender cylindrical, length 12-45cm, diameter 3-6mm, grayish yellow. Surface longitudinal wrinkles, slightly twisted, sometimes there are differences, horizontal lenticels. Hard and brittle, easily broken, section waxy kind, skin white, wooden yellow. Gas micro, sweet and slightly bitter. To skin color yellow, thin, soft, sweet is preferred.
[ ] root chemical composition containing a variety of oligosaccharides ( three to eight monosaccharides ), are both sucrose galactoside, have any sugar ( Lychnose ), of any sugar (Isolychnose) and raffinose; in addition, also containing sucrose. Seeds containing a small amount of sugar and sugar of any any derived sugars.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; flat
[ ] liver spleen meridian tropism;
[ function ] promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis; Tonglin turbidity; alexipharmic detumescence. The main blood stasis; vicarious menstruation amenorrhea; caking; cirrhosis of liver; leaching; blood leaching; whitish; leucorrhea; arthralgia into collateral meridians and traumatic injury;;; boils; milk moth; diphtheria
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15 ~ 30g. External: the whole grass amount, washed fried; or trace and apply
[ note ]" South Yunnan Materia Medica": not to be taken by pregnant women.
[ ] the discussion
1" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": liver tonic, breaking stasis block, cooling heat. Administer monthly closing, wet production of tuberculosis, virgin amenorrhea abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting blood, nose bleeding, collapse, red, leucorrhea, urgency, dripping wet, cold gas musculoskeletal pain, strong gluten Shujin, sore and carbuncle swollen poison attack, mumps, tonsillitis, man with red and white blood is voiced, woman vaginal discharge. Shu through veins, broken blood. Bulk crewels tuberculosis, to attack tumors toxic red hard, wear the pus head, without pus Li xiao.
The 2" Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan": diuresis detumescence, oxytocin. Administer hernia, edema, pulmonary tuberculosis, dystocia, stillbirth not.
3" Kunming folk medicinal herbs commonly used": clearing away heat and toxic material, so sore.
4" selected medicinal plants of Yunnan": desiccant diuresis, Shujin huoxue. Treatment of traumatic injury, fractures, chronic low back pain, rheumatic arthritis, nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection.
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