Parkinsonia aculeata

[ source ] was first recorded in flora of Hainan"".
[ ] Bi n Zh gave Pinyin names: u M
English name [ ] root of Jerusalemthorn
[ source ]
Medicine source: for legume Parkinsonia aculeata branch bark or leaves.
Latin animal mineral name: Parkinsonia aculenta L.
Harvest and storage: the four seasons can be harvested, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Parkinsonia aculeata small trees, there are thorns. High 6m. The smooth bark with green. Two back even-pinnate, general petiole short, axis must have 1 spines; pinnae 2-4, clustered in spiny shaft base, up to more than 30cm, when lobular shedding or agenesis, much like the branchlets, with many leaflets; leaflets long elliptic, long 3-8mm, 3mm wide, apex rounded, sometimes emarginate, base cuneate, entire, glabrous, fall early. Racemes glue, flowers sparsely arranged; flower is thin, ca. 15mm; bracts lanceolate; receptacle disciform; sepals 5, 6mm long, base connate to show a short cylindrical; petals 5, yellow, fragrant, separation, ca. 10mm, about 6mm wide; stamens 10, separation, matrix hairy. The pods were beaded, compressed, leathery, ca. 8-15cm, width of 6-8mm. Seeds usually 4-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: a tropical country widely cultivated, there are wild.
Resource distribution: distribution in Hainan.
Chemical composition of [ ]
Bark contains beta sitosterol - beta - D - glucoside ( beta - sitosterol - P - D-glucoside), choline ( choline ), beta amyrin acetate (amyrinacetate ), beta - fragrant resin ketone (amyrone, P - amyrenone) and beta sitosterol (sitosterol ).
The leaf contains amino acids ( amino acid ), table orientin (epiorientin ), flat axes lignin (parkinsonin) A, B, orientin ( orientin ), homoorientin ( isoorientin ), ( Vitexin ) Vitexin and Vitexin ( isovitexin), 6, 8 - two - C - glucose group ( lucenin luteolin II ), 6, 8-C - glucose based apigenin ( vicenin II ), the diosmetin - 6-C - beta - glucoside ( diosmetin-6-C - P - glucoside), ( apigenin ), apigenin and luteolin ( luteolin ), kaempferol ( kaempferol ), Jin Shengcao Flavin ( chrysoeriol ) and Piro due to 6-C beta D - glucoside ( pilloin-6-C - P - D-gluco-side).
Also contain beta - Gu Zaizui - beta - D - glucoside ( beta - sitosterol - P - D-glucoside), choline ( choline ), beta - fragrant resin acid esters (amyrin acetate ), beta - fragrant resin ketone (amyrone, P - amyrenone) and beta sitosterol (sitosterol ).
The seed contains albumin ( albumin ), ( glutelin ), N glutenin - acyl amino acid amidohydrolase ( N-acylamino acid aminohydrolase ) and amino transferase ( aminocylase ).
Flower and table orientin ( epiorientin ), A, B flat axis lignin.
[ ] the taste of sweet taste; flat
[ ] to the kidney; spleen meridian
[ function ]". The main body of debilitating injury; fatigue; virtual heat; spontaneous; night sweats
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g.
[ ] the treatise" Xinhua outline of Materia Medica": the bark and foliage filling empty fatigue function. For general physical weakness.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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