Cedar leaf

[ source ] from the" herbal" classification
[ ] B I Sh Pinyin name be Y keyword
[ source ]
Medicine source: Cypress cypress foliage plants.
Latin animal mineral name: Cupressus funebris Endl.
Harvest and storage: annual recoverable, their branches and leaves, dried in the shade.
[ ] the original morphology of trees, as high as 35m, bust up to 2m. Bark pale brown; branchlets slender, drooping branches to carry out; branchlets, students scale leaves flat, a flat, green, about 1mm in width; the older branchlets dark brown, purple, cylindrical, slightly shiny. Ye Er type; scale leaves long 1-1.5mm, apex acute, central lobe at the back strip glands, both sides of the leaf back ridge. The male cones ellipsoid or ovoid, long 2.5-3mm; female cone length 3-6mm, subglobose, ca. 3.5mm. Cone sphere shape, diameter 8-12mm, dark brown when ripe; scales of 4 to five, apex irregularly shaped or square, wide 5-7mm, Central has a pointed tip or not, can the breeding scale 5-6 seed; seed broadly obovate to diamond or nearly circular, oblate, ca. 2.5mm, pale brown, with shiny, margin with a narrow wing. Flowering of 3-5 months, cones in 5-6 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: is a native tree in china.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and other places. In Sichuan, Western Hubei and Guizhou plant Department most, southern Jiangsu has cultivated.
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1 character identification branchlets flat, brown. Leaves small, scaly, decussate on branchlets, leaf blade apex acute, not adpressed rameal, into spines, hand touch when there is tingling, yellowish green or gray-green foliage. Brittle, easily broken. Gas light, astringent. To tender, dark green leaves are preferred.
2 microscopic identification cypress leaf and Cacumen Platycladi main distinction is, epidermis and cortex have more containing brown substances to cells, transfusion tracheids ciliate Kong Shao, calcium oxalate crystal mainly small crystal sand, occasionally sheet-like or columnar crystal.
3 physicochemical identification takes this coarse powder 3G, plus 30ml in methanol, on the water bath reflux 30min. Filtration, filtrate evaporated, residue and 5% sodium carbonate solution of 15ml, water saturated butanol extraction for 2 times, each time 10ml, and then dilute hydrochloric acid to regulate Ph to 3-4, ether was used 2 times, each time 10ml, combined with ether liquid evaporating, residue using methanol dissolved 2ml, for solution. Another quercetin amount dissolved in methanol, to control fluid. The liquid 10 U L, point to the same GF / 254 silica gel thin layer plate, with four benzene: ethyl acetate: formic acid ( 5 : 4: 1), the viewing under an ultraviolet lamp, chromatography for the test, and reference substance in the corresponding location on chromatography, was the same color.
[ ] cypress leaf chemical composition containing on double yellow (amentoflavone), single methyl amentoflavone ( monomethylamentoflavone ), cypress double flavonoids (hi-nokiflavone), 7 " - single methyl cedar double flavonoids ( 7 - monomethylhinokifla-vone ), cedar double flavonoids (cupressuflavone) and its derivatives, pheophytin ( pheophytin ) a, 10S and 10R - hydroxyl and methyl pheophorbide acid two ( methylpheophorbide ) a, alpha - Cypress terpene ( a - funebrene ).
[ ] taste bitter astringent; flat;
[ function ] cooling blood to stop bleeding; and sore muscles. The main blood; blood dysentery; hemorrhoids; scabies; burn; wound; snake bites.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g; or at the end of the inquiry. External: trace and apply or grinds the powder powder.
[ attach ] of Party governance stab wounds: Cypress leaves, chew on. (" Chongqing herbs" ) of the rule of Snakebite (gaze diplopia ): cypress leaf two two, Cyperus complete grass two two rice, fried bathe a wound. ( Jiangxi" Handbook of herbs" ) and treats scald: cedar Daozhi paint. (" Jiangxi" Herbal Handbook )
[ ] the discussion
1" herbal": classification and blood. Treatment of intestinal wind hemorrhoidal swelling, diarrhea, vomiting blood; and coated fertilizer sores in children.
2" Chongqing herbal medicine": bleeding Shengji, refractory wounds.
3" Guangxi drug-sik directory": treatment of hemoptysis, heart pain, muscle contraction disease.
The clinical application of [ ]
1 treatment of hematemesis: cedar, cypress leaves. Powder, add wine to eat, each four money.
2 in treating infantile fertilizer sores: Cypress leaves powder ( or calcined powder ), oil coated ( wash painting)
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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