Litsea coreana

[ source ] was first recorded in flora of China"".
[ B, O ] Pinyin name P Zh n to be grave.
English name [ ] Chinese Litse
[ alias ] Yangtze wood ginger, maple wood, flower shell peeling
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the Lauraceae plants Zhang root and stem bark.
Latin animal mineral name: Litsea coreana L e vl.var . Sinensis ( Allen ) Yang et P H.Huang [Actinodaphne lancifolia ( Sieb.et Zucc. ) Meissn.var.sinensis Allen]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Litsea coreana evergreen shrubs or small trees, high up to 6m. Bark grayish brown, with pale yellow massive spalling; young branchlets reddish brown, glabrous, old branches dark brown, glabrous; terminal buds ovoid, apex obtuse, glabrous or hairy only upper scale. Leaves alternate; petiole length 1-2cm, above the pilose; leaf blade leathery, oblong or lanceolate, long 5-10cm, 2-3.5cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, above green glossy green, gray and white below, both surfaces glabrous, pinnately veined, lateral veins on each side of 9-10, midvein slightly below uplift, reticulate is not obvious. Dioecious; umbels axillary, sessile; bracts caducous; tepals 6, equal, ca. 2mm 9-12; male flowers: stamens, anthers 4 rooms, are introverted 4-valved; female ovary subglobose, style sparsely puberulent, stigmas 2 crack, staminodes filiform, with long hairs. Fruit globose or subglobose, ca. 6-8mm, apex mucronate, base with a night latch tepals flat fruit care; fruiting pedicels ca. 5mm, rather stout, Guo Chu red, ripe when black. Florescence in May 8-9 month, fr..
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 900m elevation below the mountain mixed forest or forest margins, ditches and wilderness.
Resource distribution: located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Henan, Hubei and other places.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; temperature;
[ ] of spleen stomach meridian;
[ ] to analgesic functions; Qi water. The main epigastric pain; edema
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-30g.
[ ] the treatise" Xinhua outline of Materia Medica": for edema, stomach pain.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/