Ginseng

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From" Jilin" in Chinese herbal medicine.
[ ] Pinyin name C R e n Sh n
English name [ ] Root of Tall Oplopanax
[ alias ] Northeast ginseng
[ source ]
Medicine source: to Araliaceae japonicus roots and stems.
Latin animal mineral name: Oplopanax elatus Nakai [Echinopanax elatum Nakai]
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn mining stems or digging root, washed, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of spiny shrubs fronds, height of about 1m, dilute amounts to 3m. A thick and long, is a rod, few lateral roots. Stems erect, few branched, spiny, spines section of the Department of. Bark grayish yellow, bribery of large, white; bud scales brown, densely prickly hairs. Leaves alternate; petiole length 4-18cm, dense needle, base ministry expand amplexicaul; leaf blade palmately cleft 3-5, length 8-20cm, width 12-32cm, lobes triangular or broadly triangular, glabrous above or sparsely setose, following along veins pubescent, base cordate, margin with irregular sawtooth or bud tooth, with thorn hair, dark green above, the main veins raised, sparsely prickly hairs, grayish green below, along the veins densely assassination hair, lateral and net veins are visible. Inflorescence subterminal, long 8-18cm, spindle dense short spines and bristles; umbels diameter 9-13mm, 6-10 flower flowers, brown brown; flowers zygomatic 5, glabrous, margin with 5 pinion; petals 5, oblong-triangular, white and green; stamens 5; ovary inferior, room 2, style 2, base : all students or connate to middle, ca. 3mm. Fruit baccate drupe, slightly depressed globose, diameter 7-12mm, yellow and red, night latch style long 4-4.5mm. Flowering of 6-7 months, fr. 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1400-1550 elevation coniferous forest, coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, deciduous broad-leaved forest zone good drainage, fertile humus at.
Resource distribution: distribution in the Northeast region.
Chemical composition of [ ]
The root contains l sesamin ( sesamin ) [1 ], oleanolic acid ( oleanolic acid ) [2 ], lilac glucoside ( syringin ). Syringaresinol and glucoside ( syringaresinol di-O-glucoside ) [3 ], Eleutherosides ( elenhteroside ) A, B, B1, C, D, E, F, G [4, 5], beta sitosterol (sitosterol ), daucosterol ( daucos-terin ), are twenty-seven Triacontanol (n-heptacosanol ), L rhamnose ( L-rhamnose ), sugar ( sucrose ) and ISO oleic acid ( isooleic AICD ), azelaic acid ( azelaic acid ), 3 - hydroxy alkanoic acid ( 3-hydroxyhexadecanoic sixteen acid ) and other fatty acids [6 ].
Have the stem containing according to oil, has been identified with nerolidol ( nerolidol ), Torreya grandis alcohol (torreyol ), bulnesol ( bulnesos ), alpha twelve carbon olefine aldehyde ( a - dodecenal ), 3, 7, 11 - methyl - 2, 6, 10 - twelve carbon three Xi - 1 alcohol ( 3, 7, 11-trimethyl-2, 6, 10-dodecatrien-1-ol ), zeta and gamma cadinen ( cadinene ), guaiazulene alcohol ( guaiol ), cedrol ( cedrol ), alpha - and beta-pinene ( pinene ), n-octyl aldehyde ( n-octanal ), ( ocimene ), ocimene the perillene ( perillene ), 2, 6 - two methyl heptyl aldehyde alkene ( 2, 6) - dimethyl-heptalene ) ( borneol ), borneol, already bornyl acetate ( bornyl acetate ), fourteen alkyl aldehyde ( tetradecanal ), long leaf alkene ( Longifolene ), farnesol ( farnesol ) 31 component [7, 8].
Leaf containing acanthopanax root glycosides ( Eleutheroside ) of K, L, M, [ 9]. Recently, were obtained from 25 three triterpenoid saponins, except Kalopanax septemlobus saponins ( Kalopanax saponin ) G, 3 hydroxy lupin - 20 ( 29) - Xi - 23, 28 - acid - 28-O - A - pyran rhamnose base ( 1, 4) - beta - D glucopyranosyl base ( 1 - 6 ) - beta - D - pyran glucoside [ 3 A - hydroxylup-20 ( 29) - ene-23, 28-dioic acid-28-O - A - L-rhamnopyranosyl ( 1, 4) - beta - D-glucopyranosyl ( 1, 6) - beta - D-glucopyranoside] and 3 - Express birch fatty acid - 28-O - A - L - pyran rhamnose base ( 1, 4) - beta - D-glucopyranoside] and 3 - Express birch fatty acid - 28-O - A - L - pyran rhamnose base ( 1, 4) - beta - D glucopyranosyl base ( 1, 6) - beta - D - pyran glucoside [ 3-epibtulic, acid-28-O - l-rhamnopyranosyl ( 1 4) - beta - D-glucopyranosyl ( 1, 6) - beta - D-glucopyranoside], and in 22 was named the ginseng glucoside ( cirensenoside ) A-V, B, C which ginseng glucoside, D, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, Q, T, U, V etc. 14 belong to oleanolic acid ( oleanolic acid ) and its derivatives as glycosides without, at the C28 position is connected with the sugar chains or in the C3 and C28 connected with the disaccharide chain into three triterpene saponin, ginseng saponins A, E, F, G, H, P, R, S 8 belongs to lupin vinyl (lupene ) derivative Biological glycosides, also in the C3 or C28 connected with a single glucoside disaccharide chain into three triterpenoid saponins [ 10-15]. Also contain flavonoid glycosides: kaempferol - 3-O - beta - D D-galactopyranosyl base ( 1, 2) - beta - D - of TUT glucoside [kaempferol-3-O - beta - D-glactopyronosy ( 1, 2) - beta - D-glucopyranoside], quercetin - 3-O - beta - D pyran galactosyl ( 1, 2 ) - beta - D - pyran glucoside [quercetin-3-O - beta - D-galactopyranosyl ( 1, 2) - beta - D-glucopyranoside] [16 ].
[ ] see a pharmacological effect of acanthopanax.
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; temperature
[ ] Qi and Yang functions; cough; tongluo. The main Qi frail; lassitude; aversion to cold; impotence; empty cough persistent cough; cold and dampness; diabetes; hypertension
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-15g; or for tincture, each 30-40 2-3, daily times, before meals.
[ ]" the discourse of Chinese herbal medicines in Jilin": fever, cough.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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