Cypress root

[ ] B I Sh Pinyin name be n G
[ source ]
Medicine source: Cypress cypress branch plant root.
Latin animal mineral name: Cupressus funebris Endl.
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, digging roots, wash away dirt, sliced, dried with.
[ ] 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.
[ ] bitter taste; Xin; cool
[ ] functions of clearing away heat and toxic material. The main body heat reclaim of measles
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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