Chuan Gu Gen

[ source ] 1 River Valley, was contained in the" Materia Medica" cloud: history, in Gu Shengsi County in the field. Miller high school four feet, with leaves resembling primary Zhu & tiny leaf leaves, yellow flowers in myenteric plexus of open, knot grass pearl small, sweet. 2" schema" in Coix cloud: a round shell thick, hard, namely the Bodhi son. It is less rice, japonica ( meters also sense ). But in doing everything the rosary, Lee also called for the rosary cloud. Its root and white, as big as a spoon handle, Jiu node and sweet also. To sum up, and nuclear its attached, and this gramineous plant plain valley.
[ ] Chu. N Pinyin name G and G n
[ alias ] mention bead root
[ source ]
Medicine source: for gramineous plants root and rhizome of Sichuan valley.
Latin animal mineral name: Coix lacryma-jobi L.var.monilifer Watt
Harvest and storage: Autumn mining grubbing and root, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of plain Valley perennial, high 1-1.5m. The thick, yellowish, diameter of about 3mm. Culms robust, erect and bushy, much branched, basally rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate; leaf blade linear to lanceolate, long 10-40cm, 1-4cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cordate, midvein thick and obvious, two bald clean, rough edges smooth; leaf sheaths, the mouth of the sheath glabrous; ligule hard, ca. lmm. Racemes 1 to several branches, composed of an upper sheath withdrawn, long 3-8cm; male spikelets imbricate in cob each segment, a lift or drooping racemes; female Rachel inclusion in bone involucre; involucral ovoid or subglobose, length 8-10mm, width 6-8mm, maturity of light hard, almost white, grey or blue purple. Flower, fruit 7-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in valleys, along streams or ditch.
Resource distribution: located in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi. Hubei. Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] the chemical composition containing 2 - [2, 4 - two hydroxy - 7 - methoxy - 1, 4 ( 2H ) - benzoxazine - 3 ( 4H ) - ketoprofen ] beta - D - pyran glucoside
[ ] taste Gan; light; chill
[ ] to the spleen; bladder
[ ] functions of clearing heat and removing dampness Tonglin; hemostasis; Xiaoji insecticide. The main hot blood leaching; leaching; paste; metrorrhagia; leucorrhea; edema; damp-heat jaundice; dyspeptic abdominal distention; ascariasis
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 30-60g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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