Lotus japonicus

[ source ]" Tang" from Chinese Materia Medica
[ ] B I M gave Pinyin name, i n G
English name [ ] Root or stem of Littleleaf Indianmulberry, Herb of Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bird 's Foot Trefoil, Bird ' s Foot Deervetch
[ alias ] Bai Maigen, horns, grass, flowers are gold flower, grass, birds from the grass leaves.
[ source ]
Medicine source: for leguminous plant Lotus japonicus roots.
Latin animal mineral name: Lotus corniculatus L.
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest, undercutting, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Lotus japonicus perennial, high 10-60cm. The bine is fascicular, sparsely villous or later glabrous. Leaflets 5, 3 leaflets in the top 2 lobular petiole, was born at base of petiole; petiolules very short, ca. 1mm; leaf blade papery, ovate or obovate, length 5-20mm, width 3-12mm, apex acuminate, base rounded wedge, entire, glabrous or sparsely hairy on both sides of the main vein. Flower 3-4 single row into terminal umbel, leaflike involucre; flowers long 1-1.4cm; calyx yellowish green, bell-shaped to wide, membranous, both inside and outside the hirsute, calyx teeth 5, three SM shape; papilionaceous corolla, yellow flag, broadly obovate, length 9-13mm, width 4-6mm, with longer claw, a slightly longer wing keel, keel bending; stamens 10, two; ovary sessile, style long and curved, stigma small. Pod long cylindrical, brown, long 2-2.7cm, width 3-4mm, containing many seeds. Flowering of 5-7 months, fr. 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 2300-3400m fir mixed forest and alpine oak or grasslands on mountain slopes, moist place field.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Tibet and other places.
Chemical composition of [ ]
The root contains flavonoids in Lotus japonicus hormone (corniculatusin ), Lotus japonicus meat - 3-O - beta - D galactose glucoside ( corniculatusin-3-O - P - D-galactoside), 3, 5, 8, 3 ', 4 ' - five hydroxy - 7 - methoxy flavone ( 3, 5, 8, 3 ', 4 ' - pentahydroxy-7-methoxyflavone cotton ), endothelin - 7 - methyl - 3 - galactose glucoside ( gossypetin-7-methylether-3-O-galactoside ).
In addition, the root also contain fisetin ( fisetin ), 5 - hydroxyl isorhamnetin ( geraldol ), 5 - DNA kaempferol ( 5deoxykaempferol ), lemon extract ( limoci-tin ), 3, 5, 7, 4 ' four hydroxy - 8 - methoxy flavone ( sexangularetin ), cottonseed skins Pavilion (gossypetine ).
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; chill
[ ] the lung meridian
[ ] s virtual functions; heat; thirst. Main consumptive thirst; fever due to yin deficiency;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-18g; or leach liquor; or into the pill, powder.
[ ] the treatise" Tang Materia Medica": under the gas, thirst, to heat, in addition to Xulao, complement deficiencies.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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