Ardisia affinis

[ ] Pinyin name B Y Z J n Ni keyword cabinet
[ alias ] small parasol, a thousand years back, short legs, small umbrella parasol, not out of the woods, a small Japanese Ardisia, lion head, iron Luo umbrella
[ source ]
Medicine source: Purple Cow plant Shiloh umbrella plant.
Latin animal mineral name: Ardisia affinis Hemsl.
Harvest and storage: summer, fall the excavation, washed, chopped, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of small shrubs, up 35cm. Sometimes with creeping rhizomes; young parts densely rusty puberulous, except the lateral special squid, few branched. Leaves alternate; petiole length 2-5mm; leaf blade Kennedy paper or thin, elliptic-ovate to oblong-oblanceolate, apex obtuse or acute, base cuneate, length 1.5-3.5cm, width 1-1.5cm, margin very shallowly undulate teeth or nearly circular teeth, teeth glandular or glands inconspicuous, leaf is only slightly concave the midrib with glandular puberulent; lateral veins 4-5 on, not as a marginal vein. Umbel, borne on lateral special branch top, near the top of 2-3 degradation often leaves, rusty puberulent; flowers bisexual, 5; pedicel ca. 8mm, rusty puberulous, flower is about 4mm long; calyx base joint of the length of 1 / 3, ca. 1mm, sepals ovate, commissural part puberulent, glandular, sometimes ciliate; petals pale pink, ovate, ca. 4mm, with sparse glandular dots, which slightly puberulent or glabrous, slightly shorter than petals, stamens, anthers lanceolate, back with glandular dots; pistil and petals subequal, ovary with sparse glandular point. Fruit is globose, diameter of about 7mm, red. Flowering of 5-7 months, fr. 10-12 month or January.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 100-600m limestone forest, streams, roadside humid.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
[ character ] trait identification of rhizome is cylindrical, with fine root; stems nearly cylindrical, length 25-35cm, diameter 1-1.5mm, surface light brown, glabrous or puberulous upper. Leaf blade curl, complete the flattened oval, apex acuminate, margin crenate, lateral veins on each side of 4-6, light brown, with sparse foliage, the purple black glandular punctate. Gas, light.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin Ping;
[ function ] Liyan cough; regulating qi and activating blood circulation. The main throat; cough; epigastric pain; traumatic blood stasis pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g; or at the end of the inquiry. External: moderate, milling powder.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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