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[ source ] from the" materia medica by variorum". " Schema gleaning" : Shanxi tar, the color black and purple, the oil is also. The gas if the rosin, bamboo chopsticks pick, suspension wire continuously really. Kill ticks, where the family bed several siding with this person, to oil droplets within the seam, the lice do die.
[ ] B I Zh Pinyin name be
[ alias ] tar
[ source ]
Medicine source: Cypress plants of Platycladus orientalis stem or branch burns and secretion of resin.
Latin animal mineral name: Platycladus orientalis ( L. ) Franco [ Thujaorientalis L orientalis; Biota ( L. ) Endl.]
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen trees, high 20m, diameter up to 1m. Bark: thin, grayish brown, slit into strips. Branchlets flat, straight show, a plane. Leaf scale form, decussate, long 1-3mm, apex subobtuse, located in the upper and lower surfaces of the leaves and branchlets with partially inverted Luanzhuang rhombus or inclined square, on both sides of the leaves fold covered up and down the blade on both sides of the base, a keel. The back of the blade groove provided gland. Monoecious; cone single students in short branch top; male flowers yellow, ovoid, ca. 2mm. Cone was mature, oval, long before the 1.5-2CM, cooked meat, blue green, to be white; cooked wood, open, red brown; seed scales on the back 4, flat, near apex recurved cusp, middle scales each have a seed 1-2. Seeds ovoid or long ovate, long 4-6mm, dust-colour or violet Brown, wingless or ridges, big and obvious. Flowering 3-4, 9-11 mature cones.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in the moist fertile ground, limestone stone to have growth.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, the North China south of Guangdong, North Guangxi, West to Shaanxi, Gansu, southwest to Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.
[ ] taste Gan Ping;
[ ] in addition to attending functions temperature heat, detoxifying insecticides. The main mange scabies;;; impetigo; erysipelas; wart
[ usage] external: moderate, coating or get paste paint.
[ ] of all attached side treat tinea, years recently carbuncle: Tar a bottle of poison, coated surface of the skin, with old withered mulberry wood smoked, to be good stop namely; such as one without damage, and then smoked. (" schema gleaning" ) in treating tinea: true tar, adjustable light powder coated, foaming, foam elimination is more. (" experience" the wide ) treat yellow eczema: true asphalt two two, sesame oil two two. Through the thick smear. (" the good hall experience" ). The treatment of red You Dan: slug ten, soil spider nest five or six ( a thatched cottages are intramural ), asphalt, scraping paint a little old lacquer. A total of ramming, to pitch adjustable apply to affected areas. (" the secret" circle set )
[ ] the discussion
1" Tang Materia Medica": Cypress side burn ZHU, ulcer scabies and scabies treatment.
2" Materia Medica": with cypress side burn not ointment, apply inside long not ill, bug.
3: on the" Outline" gleaning, treat tinea, facial and ear impetigo, red You Dan.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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