Berger

[ source ] from the" Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine" in Henan province.
[ ] C L Golf Pinyin name
[ alias ] red small broom iron broom seedling, seedling, pheasant crest grass
[ source ]
Medicine source: as Chenopodiaceae Berger entire grass.
Latin animal mineral name: Herba Chenopodii Aristati
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn harvest the whole grass, removing impurities, washed and dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annual herbaceous plants, usually conical in shape, high 15-40cm. Stem erect, much branched, striate, old reddish, usually glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternate, with a short handle; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to linear, length 2-5cm, width 4-10mm, first Swiss acuminate, base narrow, margin entire, primary veins conspicuous, white. Inflorescence borne in axil branch end and, as a compound two dichasial cyme, at the end of the branched acupuncture shape; flowers small, bisexual, subsessile; tepals 5, oblong, apex obtuse or cuspidate, back slightly fleshy, green, margin membranous, fruit development. Stamens 5, not exserted. Utricle rounded, apex flattened, not included in perianth, pericarp membranous, adnate to seed. Seed horizontal, round, edge angles, dark brown, shiny. Flowering of 8-9 months, fr. 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in sandy land, cropland. Next, for farmland weeds.
Resource distribution: distribution in the northeast, north, northwest and Shandong, Henan.
[ character ]
Character identification the turf yellow to yellow green. Leaves shrivel broken, entire. Inflorescence borne in axil branch end and, at the end of the branches of acupuncture. Utricles oblong, pericarp pellucid membranous, adnate to seed. Seed round, dark brown, long and less than 1mm, shiny. Gas, slightly bitter taste.
Microscopic identification of powder characteristics : 1 leaf epidermal cells of vertical Zhou Biping straight, lower epidermal anticlinal wall corrugated bend, have infinitives stoma. The utricle surface view: peel film, surface collapse, the cell contour. The skin epidermal cells of grid, brown. The corolla lobes parenchyma cells contain calcium oxalate crystal sand. The stigma cells mostly long papilloma. The pollen grains of spherical shape, diameter of about 20 m, surface visible powder hole bit.
The branch end spiked, composed of numerous end tip of parenchyma cells.
[ ] taste pale; flat
[ ] Huoxue Tiaojing; functions; Qufeng zhiyang. Primary dysmenorrhea; menorrhagia; amenorrhea; atopic dermatitis; such as measles
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-9g. External: washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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