White Changshan

[ ] from the" Pharmaceutical Botany".
[ ] B I Ch 's Pinyin name 's n to be Sh. N
English name [ ] root of Littleflower Mussaenda, root of Spreadingbranch Mussaenda
[ alias ] Mussaenda pubescens, goose, flower
[ source ]
Medicine source: dicotyledonous plants for medicine Rubiaceae plants Mussaenda or show sticks Mussaenda pubescens root.
Latin animal mineral name: 1.Mussaenda pubescens Ait.f.2.Mussaenda divaricata Hutch.
Harvest and storage: 8-10 months of digging, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1 Mussaenda pubescens, evergreen racemose small shrubs, high up to 5m. Branchlets covered with fluff. Unifoliate opposite, shortly stipitate; leaves membranous or thin papery, ovate oblong or ovate-lanceolate, long 4-8cm, 2-4cm wide, apex acuminate, base truncate or slightly oblique, dark green above, with sparse white pilose, pale green below, densely hairy vein dorsal hump: Bai Rou; stipules 2 deeply lobed, lanceolate to linear. Corymbs terminal; calyx 5 deeply lobed, lobes linear, densely white pilose, tend to have a 1-2 was expanded into a wide, ovate or orbicular, long 3.5cm, white; corolla golden yellow, funnelform, long 2-3cm, apex 5 - lobed, lobes ovate; stamens 5; pistil 1, stigmas 2 disambiguation. Berry is globose, black purple, diameter of about 7-8mm. Fl. early summer.
The 2 show sticks Mussaenda pubescens, small deciduous shrub, high about 1m. A dark brown, fetid. Stem gray-white, lenticels elliptic, brown, size, protruding slightly, young branchlets hairy. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled; long elliptic, ca. 7.5-11cm, about 4-5cm wide, apex acute, margin entire, pinnately veined, lateral veins 6-8 on direct edge and is bent forward, not oblique, two pulse portion of raising upward, thus the whole leaf is uneven shape smooth, dark green above, below green and white, with short hairs; leaves at the top of the base with purple; petiole ca. 1cm. Compound cymes terminal, yellow flowers, sepals 5 crack; corolla funnelform, tube long, being spun silk hairs, throat also hairy, the upper wide extension, lobes 5, ovoid, apex acute, valvate in bud; stamens 5; ovary inferior, room 2, stigmas 2, linear. Berry. Seeds numerous, small, sharp, FL. summer.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: Mussaenda pubescens on hillslopes, woodland.
Resource distribution: Mussaenda pubescens distribution Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan and other places. Exhibition of Sichuan Branch Mussaenda pubescens distribution, Hubei, Yunnan and other places. Medicinal material production, Guangxi, Fujian, sichuan.
[ character ]
Character identification taproot thick and long straight, curved or irregular, the diameter of 6-20mm; lateral roots numerous, and there are numerous rootlets, surface gray-brown, with irregular longitudinal crack. Qualitative hard, not easy to break, yellow-white section or pale yellow, thick skin, fresh, easy peeling, inner surface is smooth, rich clay. Appearance is very similar to Changshan, but the section for white heart, so that the white Changshan. Gas, light.
Microscopic identification of root transection: cork layer for series cork cells, cortex is narrow, with scattered or clustered stone cells, with fiber, cell, there are pits. Brick skin stenosis. Formation of layer. Xylem developed, rings are visible, catheter single or several tangential aggregation; ray 2-4 columns of cells.
[ ] processing to moist and clear, sliced, dried. Ginger juice with fried coke.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold; toxic;
[ ] liver spleen meridian tropism;
[ function ] antipyretic anti malaria. The main malaria
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-10g.
[ ]" the treatise of Pharmaceutical Botany:" treat malaria.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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