Luo Zi pen

[ source ] from the" Hunan folk drug information"
[ ] Pinyin name B Lu: Z
English name [ ] root-bark of Stiffleaf Meliosma
[ alias ] mountain loquat, nose and hair.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Sabiaceae plant pen Luo Zi fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Meliosma rigida Sieb.et Zucc.
Harvest and storage: autumn when ripe, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original form of pen Luo Zi trees, high up to 7m. Young branchlets, buds, leaves, inflorescences are trapped in color long hair. Leaves simple; petiole length 1.5-4cm; leaf blade oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, length 8-25cm, width 2.5-4.5cm, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, basally cuneate, entire or serrate above middle several pointed leaves, rusty pubescent; lateral veins on each side of the 9-18; leathery. Flowers bisexual, panicles terminal, the spindle with 3 ribs; sepals 5 or 4, ovate or suborbicular, with ciliate; petals 5, white out 3 pieces, nearly circular, diameter 2-2.5mm, inner surface 2 is about half of the long filaments, 2 crack; light, with several ciliate; development of stamen 1.2-1.5mm; ovary glabrous. Drupe globose, diameter 5-8mm; nuclear spherical, slightly oblique, with raised fine textured. Fl. summer, fr. 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in the elevation of 1500m following the broadleaf forest.
Resource distribution: located in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ character ] character identification drupe globose, diameter 5-8mm. Pyrenes globose, slightly oblique, with raised fine textured, slightly raised ribs. Dry fruit surface is brown green. Gas micro.
[ ] the bark contains tannin 16% chemical composition. The leaf contains tannin 5.7%.
[ ] bitter taste; flat
[ ] the lung meridian
[ ] table functions, cough. The main cold cough;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-9g.
[ ]" the treatise of Hunan folk drug information:" cough, cold, pain.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/