Nitraria leaf and flower

[ source ] from the" Wenshan": Chinese herbal medicine sophora flower, use boiling water, make heat Jieshu drinks.
[ ] B I C Pinyin name 's Hu Y keyword.
English name [ ] leaf of Vetchleaf Sophora
[ alias ] bitter thorn branches.
[ source ]
Medicine source: for leguminous plants Sophora Sophora davidii ( Franch. ) leaf.
Latin animal mineral name: Sophora davidii ( Franch. )
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest leaves, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Nitraria shrub, high 1-2.5m. Bark grayish brown, warty protuberances, branches brown, nearly glabrous, with sharp. Odd pinnate, alternate, long 4-6cm; lobule 11-21, elliptic or long ovate, long 5-8mm, 4-5mm wide, apex rounded, slightly concave and small cusp, base subrounded, entire, sparsely white pubescent on both sides were level. Racemose top flower flow branchlets; born recurved, ca. 6-12 red, white or bluish-white, shortly pedicellate; calyx campanulate, 5 lobed, violet blue, densely pubescent; corolla butterfly, upper petal spatulate, retrorsely, keel 2 flap separation, base the Ministry has sharp ears; stamens 10, free carpels slender, hairy. Pod elongated, beaded, long beak, densely white pilose. Seed 1-7, oval. Flowering of 3-5 months, fr. 6-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: roadside slopes was born in bushes or grass slopes.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi and other places.
[ ] from the leaf chemical components were isolated sophocarpine ( sophocarpine ), sophocarpine N - oxide ( sophocarpine N-oxide ) and Diosmin ( diosmin ).
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ ] heart kidney meridian;
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