Banana flower

[ source ]" Materia Medica" from Hua Zi.
[ ] B Pinyin name is a Ji. O Hu.
English name [ ] Flower of Japanese Banana
[ source ]
Medicine source: banana plants banana flower.
Latin animal mineral name: Musa basjoo Sieb . Et Zucc.
Harvest and storage: the recovery, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of plantain, tufted perennial herb, high 2.5-4m. Petiole stout, up to 30cm; leaf blade oblong, long 2-3m, 25-30cm wide, apex obtuse, base rounded or asymmetric, foliage green, glossy. Inflorescences and, pendulous; bracts brownish red or purple; male flowers in inflorescences of female flowers in inflorescences of upper, lower bracts; female flowers in each 10-16 flower, 2 columns; tepals connate with 5 ( 4-4.5cm, 3+2 ) tooth crack, free tepal few and compound tepal equal, apex with small pointed. Berries trigonous, oblong, long 5-7cm, with 3-5 edge, subsessile, fleshy, with most seed. Yi to seed, warty process and irregular edges, wide 6-8mm. Flowering 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: Qinling Mountains south of Huaihe can open cultivation, much cultivated in gardens and farmhouse near.
Resource distribution: China Taiwan may have wild.
[ ] taste sweet; micro Xin; cool
[ ] to the heart; liver; stomach; large intestine meridian
[ function ] phlegm Xiaopi; stasis; pain relief. The main diaphragm fullness distention abdominal fullness; pain; Tunsuan nausea; vomiting phlegm dizziness; leader; pain; palpitation; rheumatic pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 5-10g; or burning of grind end, each 6g.
[ ] the discussion
1" Materia Medica": Hua Zi on curing heart arthralgia.
2" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": the stomach, dispersing phlegm, soft firm. Treat cold sputum stop the stomach, vomiting, nausea, vomit acid regurgitation acid.
3" classification": treating vertigo with herbal, colic, casual blood.
4" south of the Five Ridges": recorded for red and white scour of herbs, can pass through.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/