White octagonal lotus

[ ] B I B Pinyin name 's o Li 's n Ji transactions.
[ alias ] blood golden basin, podophyllotoxin, nine mortar
[ source ]
Medicine source: Berberidaceae plant Guizhou octagonal lotus root and rhizome.
Latin animal mineral name: Dysosma majorensis ( Gagnep. ) Ying [ Podophyllum majorense Gagnep Dysosma lichuanensis Cheng sp.nov.Ined.];
[ ] the original morphology of Guizhou Dysosma versipellis, perennial herb. Stems erect, high 10-30cm, having longitudinal edges and fine fluff. Roots thick, nodular, yellow-brown, fleshy, fibrous roots majority. Cauline leaves 2; petiole length 7-12cm; leaf blade peltate with students, lobe contour nearly flat circular or semicircular, ca. 12cm, width of 15cm, 4-6 palmatipartite, lobes and 2-3 lobed into hastate, above dark green or purplish halo, below the belt grey purple, with fine fluff, leaf margin sometimes obscurely toothed. 2-5 flower flowers in umbels, inserted on petiole is not far from leaves, pedicels ca. 1cm, grey thin white pilose; petals purple flowers, ptosis, elliptic-lanceolate; stamens usually 6, filaments, antheral introversion, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary with many ovules. Berry oblong, red when ripe. Flowering of 4-6 months, fr. 6-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1500m elevation mountain wet shrub under.
Resource distribution: distribution in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou.
[ character ]
Character identification, rhizome irregular nodule shape, diameter 1.5-2cm. Surface brown or red brown, above has the obvious concave stem scars, link not period, sometimes visible residual scale leaves, there are numerous fiberous root or punctate prominent fibrous root mark. Root length of up to 10cm, diameter 1-1.5mm, surface brownish yellow, with fine longitudinal stria. Qualitative hard, fractured surface flat, granular; rhizome phloem pale brownish red, vascular ring, pith, yellow-white; whisker root phloem thickness, yellow-white, Ministry of small diameter wood, accounted for 1 / 5, brown. Gas micro, specific taste bitter.
Microscopic identification, root transverse section: epidermal cells 1 column, the 1 column of mesothelial cells, square. Cortical parenchyma cells have a wall hole, a single or a plurality of groups of lignified fiber. Vascular collateral type, inside and outside are stone cell group. Cord, composed of parenchyma cells. The cortex and pith parenchyma cells contain starch grains and numerous calcium oxalate crystal.
Root ( diameter 1.5mm ) transverse: epidermal cells 1 columns. Cortex is broad, within the cortex was apparent. The primary xylem 4-5 prototype. Central to the strongly lignified fiber, fiber polygonal, wall thickness, hole shape cell. Cortical parenchyma cells contain many starch grains.
[ ] the chemical composition containing emodin monomethyl ether ( physcion ), sitosterol ( sitosterol ), Bajiaolian anthraquinone (dysoanthraquinone), noradrenaline Bajiaolian anthraquinone (demethyldysoanthraquinone ), to hydrogen podophyllotoxin (picropodophyllin ), diphyllin ( podophyllotoxin ), picropodophyllin ( picropodophyllin ), mountain lotus leaf hormone ( diphyllin ), 4 - to a podophyllotoxin ( 4-demethylpodophyllotoxin ), the DNA of podophyllotoxin (deoxypodophyllotoxix ), 4 - to a podophyllotoxin ketone ( 4-demethylpodophyllotoxone ), change the mortar toxic ketone (podophyllotoxone), different picropodophyllin ketone ( isopicropodophyllone ), its bitter ketone (picropodophyllone).
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; flat
[ function ] Ziyin Bushen Jiedu Xiaozhong; lung dryness. The main labor bones pain; impotence; stomach; innominate toxic swelling; a sword wound
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-9g. External : the amount, trace and apply.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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