The blood of potato

[ ] B and Xu Pinyin name keyword Sh and
[ alias ] seven leaf potato, blood parameters, seven claw Dragon
[ source ]
Medicine source: for Dioscorea zingiberensis tubers of seven.
Latin animal mineral name: Dioscorea esquirolii Prain et Burkill
Harvest and storage: the autumn and winter, digging, remove stems and leaves and fibrous root, washed, sliced use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of seven Dioscorea winding herbaceous vines. All lines except blades are more sparsely pilose, glabrescent or old, veins pubescent, densely yellowish brown tomentose rest, stem thorn. Palmately compound leaves alternate; petiole to 15cm, sometimes spiny; 3-5 ( - 7 ) leaflets, blade length 7-23cm, width 3-8.5cm, apex caudate-acuminate, entire or undulate margin, abaxially grayish green; the middle leaf is acicular long elliptic to elliptic or broadly fall by needle form, the most lateral leaflets oblique be beautiful to oblique Luanzhuang long oval. Male inflorescence a raceme, 2-4 or single inserted on leafless flowering branches; male pedicels ca. 0.5mm; outer tepals triangular-ovate, the inner wheel suboblong; stamens 3, inserted outside the base of perianth segments, with 3 staminodes alternate; female inflorescences spikes, up to 50cm, 2-3 a student leaf axils. Capsule reflexed, trigonous oblong obovate, length 3.5-5cm, width 2-3cm; seed bearing each chamber axis top, a wing to the capsule base elongation. Flowering in October to February the following year, fruit period from December to April the following year.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 600-1430m elevation slopes, valleys under humid forest.
Resource distribution: located in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] slightly sweet taste of spice; cool;
[ ] functions of removing blood stasis and hemostasis; swelling and pain. The main pulmonary hemoptysis hepatosplenomegaly; dysmenorrhea; labor; postpartum abdominal pain; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-15g. External : the amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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