Rice root

[ source ] from Nanning City Zhi" drugs".
[ ] B I Pinyin name 's F, n Sh G n
English name [ ] Root of Poisonous Flueggea, Root of Stinking Flueggea
[ alias ] barley Qiang, fisheye root.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Euphorbiaceae plant rice tree Securinega virosa ( Roxb.ex Willd. ) Baill. Root.
Latin animal mineral name: Securinega virosa ( Roxb.ex Willd. ) Baill. [ Phyllanthus virosus Roxb.ex Willd; Fluggea virosa ( Roxb.ex Willd. ) Baill.]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of rice tree deciduous shrub, high 1-4m. Glabrous. Stems are tender green, old red brown; branchlets longitudinally angular. Leaves alternate; petiole length 2-5mm; stipules 2, subtriangular, ca. 2mm; leaf blade oblong-obovate to elliptic, long 1-7cm, 1-3.5cm wide, apex obtuse and have small cusp, base broadly cuneate, green above, pale below with; lateral veins on 5-7, slightly obviously. Flowers unisexual, rarely monoecious; male flowers many, diameter 2-2.5mm, pale yellow, is composed of dense, axillary flowers, pedicels slender, long 2-4mm, calyx 5, subovate, basally united, long 2-3mm, with no petals, stamens 5, alternating with disk glands, extending from the calyx, filaments pale yellow, anthers oblong, pistillodes 3, linear, base, apex incurved, or 2-3 cleft, separating part is about 1mm long; female flowers single or few clusters in leaf axils, peduncular long 2-4mm; calyx 5, a male calyx, night latch; disk cupular, margin toothed lack; ovary ovoid, 3 rooms, was born in the disk, style 3, slightly compressed, recurved, apex of the 2 crack, basally connate, night save. Capsule, berry, subglobose, tip flattening, immature when peel is thin, green, full ripe when peel Guo Pan, fruit stalk ca. 3mm. Seed 3-6, with triangular and fine textured, ventral depressions, embryo curved, red brown. Flowering of 3-8 months, fr. 7-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in the elevation of 100-1200m sparse forests or thickets.
Resource distribution: located in Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] to chemical composition of root with securinine ( norsecurinine ), hordenine ( hordenine ), rice tree (virosine) and other alkaloids. The root bark of tree with rice. The roots of toxic securinine ( virosecurinine ), noradrenaline securinine, rice tree ether (fluggeaineether ), rice tree alcohol alkali (fluggeainol) as well as thirty-one alkyl ( hentriacontane ), beta sitosterol (sitosterol ), alcohol ( glochidonol ).
[ ] have antibacterial effects of pharmacological action.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ ] heart lung meridian;
[ function ] rheumatism; clearing heat; remove pain. The main wet arthralgia; hot and humid zones; eczema itch; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g; or into the wine. External: moderate, washed fried.
[ ]" the treatise of Nanning City drug" : heat pain, insecticidal draw out pus. The cough, yellow pus blister white sores, snakebite.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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