Bamboo orchid

[ ] from Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan.""
[ ] Bi n Zh Pinyin name be n L 's cabinet
English name [ ] Rhizome of Watt Tupistra
[ alias ] white traumatic, see the blood seal
[ source ]
Medicine source: Liliaceae bent core of Tupistra.
Latin animal mineral name: Tupistra wattii ( C.B.Clarke ) Hook.f. [ Campylandra wattii C.B.Clarke].
Harvest and storage: the year may collect dig, remove the leaves and roots, wash, after slicing with rice soaking, Beijing leaves boiled with 3h, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of shank lobes of Tupistra, perennial herb. Rhizome long, lower number of bent to form an arc shape, cylindrical, diameter 0.8-1.2cm, tawny. 3-10 was born extended stem; petiole length 3-9cm, base broadened, amplexicaul; leaf blade papery, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, length 6.5-20cm, width 3-7cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate. Spikelike inflorescence erect or curved, lateral, long 2.5-6cm; bracts lanceolate or strip lanceolate, green or yellow, with several flowers in inflorescences top chip package together; perianth cylindric, barrel length of 3-5mm, the upper 6 lobed, lobes spreading, broadly ovate, long 3.5-4mm, width 2-4mm, fleshy, reddish brown yellow or green; stamens 6, filaments lower expansion, adnate to perianth tube, the upper separation, long 1.5-2mm, incurved, anthers broadly ovate; ovary globose, style is not obvious, stigma obtuse three rhombic, apex 3 crack. Berry is globose, diameter 9-11mm, red, with a seed 1-3. Flowering 2-5 month, fruit next year 1-4 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in thick forest and humid or by streams and valleys.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest, Guangxi, and guangdong.
[ ] the roots with bent core chemical composition of Tupistra glucoside ( wattigenin ) A, Lo steroidal four alcohol (ranmogenin) D.
[ ] the pharmacological effects of pharmacological effect has not been reported. Congeneric plant in Yunnan yellow Tupistra Tupistra aurantia Wall., folk for detumescence. Experiments show that, the root Tincture on frog heart in heart, rabbit, cat and ECG in isolated guinea pig heart specimens have a strong heart. A strong heart out of view time, peak time, time of intoxication and cardiac arrest time, were associated with digitalis close, therefore may belong to slow effect cardiac glycosides. Its biological activity ( pigeon method ) is a times of digitalis. In addition, from the Yunnan production of congeneric plant T.fimbriata Hand.-Mazz. To cardiac glycoside a Tupistra hormone (Tupistrin ) is a typical digitalis like effect, but may belong to the available cardiac glycosides category. Pigeons with arrows in 24 hours after the opening has been completely elimination from the body. On a minimum lethal dose of 1.394 0.069mg / kg soil, to poison Mao Xuan Hanako glycoside G L / 8, which is slightly larger than the thevetin; its therapeutic index for 3.12, than the poison Mao Xuan Hanako glycoside G (2.31 ) for large. Open arrow primes no hemolysis effect, stable to heat.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice;; cold; a small drug
[ function ] detoxification; stasis hemostasis; swelling and pain. The main external wind-heat cough sore throat tonsillitis;;; lymphadenitis; traumatic fracture; stomachache hematemesis; traumatic bleeding
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 2-6g; or leach liquor; grind end, 1-2g. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply; or grinds the powder spreader.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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