Pineapple leaves and roots

[ ] Pinyin name B Lu: G n Y keyword
[ source ]
Medicine source: bromeliad Pineapple leaves and roots.
Latin animal mineral name: Ananas comosus ( L. ) Merr. [ Bromeliaco-mosa L A.sativus Schult.et Schult.f];
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of pineapple. Stem short, base with sucker. Leaves mostly, rosette arrangement; blade sword shaped strip shape, length 40-90cm, width 4-7cm, apex acuminate, margin entire or Sharptooth, green above, below powder green, edge and tip portions often brown red, the top was born in inflorescences becoming smaller, often red. Inflorescences from leaves out, like a pine cone, long 5-8cm, results in increased, flowers dense, purple red, born in bract axils; bracts triangular-ovate to long elliptic-ovate, pale red; outer tepals 3, sepaloid, ovate, fleshy, ca. 1cm; inner tepals 3, petals shape, it is a needle, is about 2cm long, purple, the base has a small scale 2; stamens 6, ovary inferior, hidden in a fleshy axis. Fruit cone shape, by thickened fleshy axis, fleshy bracts and the spiral arrangement of rudimentary ovary with synthetic 1 juicy syncarp, top Chang Guanyou degradation, rotary laminated foliage. Fl. summer, fr. 5-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: Fujian, Guangdong, China Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places have grown.
Resource distribution: Native American, are now widely cultivated in tropical regions, famous for tropical fruit.
[ ] the digestion and stomach functions; diarrhea. The main summer summer diarrhea; dyspepsia; pain in stomach
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-l5g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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