Areca flower

[ ] from traditional Chinese medicines.""
[ ] Pinyin name B n L n Hu to be be.
English name [ ] Areca flower
[ source ]
Medicine source: Palmae areca male flower buds.
Latin animal mineral name: Areca catechu L.
Harvest and storage: summer collection, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of betel nut, trees, high 10-18m; not branched, leaves fall off and formed a distinct ring. Pinnately compound leaves, clusters in the top of the stem, long 1.3-2m, smooth, rachis three prism; leaflets lanceolate or linear, length 30-70cm, width 2.5-6cm, base the Ministry is narrow, apex irregularly lobular healing, split. Inflorescences inserted in the leaf base, a spathelike large bracts, long obovate, up to 40cm, smooth, inflorescence much-branched; flowers unisexual monoecious; male flowers small, numerous, sessile, appressed branching upper, usually simple, rarely opposite, sepals 3, petals thick and thin, 3, ovate-oblong, long 5-6mm, stamens 6, filaments short, pistillodes 3, filiform; female flowers large and small, sessile, inserted on rachis or branched basally, sepals 3, oblong-ovate, long 12-15mm. Nut ovoid or oblong, long 5-6cm, calyx and petals night latch, red when ripe. Each blossom flowering 2 times, 3-8, calculating results; fruit from December to June the following year.
[ ] habitat distribution
The ecological environment in China: Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan has cultivated.
Resource distribution: native to Malaysia.
[ character ] dry flowers bud grain such as rice and thin, surface soil yellow to light brown. Gas with no, mild.
[ ] a cool taste;
[ ] the lung meridian of stomach;
[ ] functions Jianwei; thirst; cough. The thirsty; cough
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-10g; or stew.
[ ] the discussion
1" Journal of Chinese Materia Medica": aromatic stomachic, refreshing thirst medicine.
2:" traditional Chinese medicine" Guangdong and pork soup, treatment of cough.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/