Lentil root

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English name [ ] root of Hyacinth Dolichos
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Medicine source: for legume lentil root.
Latin animal mineral name: Dolichos lablab L.
Harvest and storage: harvest in autumn, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of lentil twining annual herbaceous vines, up to 6m. Stems often pale purple or light green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Three leaves; petiole length 4-14cm; stipules lanceolate or triangular-ovate, white pilose; terminal petiolule length 1.5-3.5cm, two petiolules short, long 2-3mm, were white pilose; terminal leaflet broadly triangular-ovate, long 5-10cm, about wide and long equal, apex is pointed, base ministry wide wedge or truncate, all fronts, both surfaces pubescent along veins, base is more, 3 main veins, lateral pinnate; lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, unequal sides. Racemes axillary, long 15-25cm, erect, inflorescence axis relatively stout; 2-4 flowers clustered in inflorescences axis or spend the festival, bracteoles ligulate, 2, caducous; calyx broadly campanulate, apex 5 tooth, 2 upper teeth almost completely connate, 3 remaining teeth near equal, margin densely white pilose; corolla butterfly shaped, white or pale purple, ca. 2cm, upper petal wide oval, apex slightly recessed inwards, the petals obliquely elliptic, near base at one side with enation, keel boat-shaped, bent a few at right angles; stamens 10, 1 single, the 9 other filaments part connected tubular, will pistil package; ovary linear, with silky hairs, base the Ministry has glands, style near apex white barbate, stigmas capitate. Pod sickle or inverted Luanzhuang long oval, flat, long 5-8cm, 1-3cm wide, apex broadly, top with a downwardly curved beak, edge roughness. Seed 2-5, flat oval, white, brown or nearly black, long 8-13mm, width 6-9mm, thickness of 4-7mm, hilum and ridge long uplift, side edges protruding white crescents caruncle. Florescence in September 6-8 month, fr..
[ ] throughout the country have cultivated habitats distribution. Mainly distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] root chemical composition containing L-asparaginase ( asparaginase ), containing a variety of free amino acids in root nodules.
[ ] taste bitter astringent; flat;
[ ] owned by E.; bladder
[ ] functions heat, dampness, hemostasis. The main summer diarrhea, dysentery, drench turbidity, morbid, hematochezia, hemorrhoids, drain pipe
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 5-15g.
[ ] the discussion
1" South Yunnan Materia Medica" : cure E. blood, anal fistula, cold shower.
2" herbs of preparing to" : cure gonorrhea, to rot.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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