Grate three sharp cedar

[ ] Pinyin name B Z S a n Ji is a n n Sh.
[ source ]
Medicine source: three tips of Taxodiaceae grate three sharp cedar seeds and foliage.
Latin animal mineral name: Cephalotaxus oliveri Mast.
Harvest and storage: foliage year may collect; seeds in the maturity of autumn harvest, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of shrub, high up to 4m. Bark grayish brown. Leaf shape, hard, formed close 2 columns, length 1.5-3.2cm, width 3-4.5mm, above the middle curved upward, apex convex tip, base truncate or subcordate truncate, subsessile, dark green above, slightly arch circle, midvein slightly pronounced or only in the lower apparent, below white stomatal bands, a green edge bandwidth 1-2 times, male strobilus 6-7, poly generation heads, diameter of about 9mm, 6-10 have stamens; female ball flower ovules usually 1-2, development becomes a seed. Seeds obovoid, ovoid or subglobose, length 2.7cm, diameter 1.8cm, apex with small pointed, with long stalks. 3-4 month flowering, seed maturity and seed 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 300-1800m conifers, broad-leaved forest, likes the warm and humid climate and acidic upland yellow soil.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and other places.
[ ] the chemical composition containing harringtonine ( harringtonine ), three sharp cedar base (cepha-lotaxine), Xie Hanmo ( schelhammera alkaloid ) B belongs to alkali. The leaf contains 4 ', 4, 7, 7 - Sijia oxygen amentoflavone ( amentoflavone-4', 4, 7, 7-tetram-ethyl ether ), Jin Song ( sciadopitysin ), double flavone grate three sharp cedar double flavonoids ( oliv-eriflavone ).
Pharmacological action [ ]
1 anticancer effects from the grate three sharp cedar in the separation of the three homoharringtonine ( i.e. cephalotaxine ) preparation of injection 1mg / kg / day intraperitoneal injection, a total of 8 times, on mice sarcoma S180 inhibitory rate of 42.3%.
Toxicity of 2 three homoharringtonine injection to mice by intraperitoneal injection of the lethal dose of 4.12mg / kg. Grate three sharp cedar contains three sharp cedar base, three homoharringtonine ( i.e. cephalotaxine ), homoharringtonine ( i.e. homoharringtonine ) and pharmacological action . See Synonyms at three sharp fir.
[ ] taste bitter astringent; cold;
[ ] anticancer functions. The main blood system tumors and other malignant tumors
[ usage] which extract three homoharringtonine use, see the specific modern clinical research.
[ attention ] the main side effects for bone marrow depression and gastrointestinal reaction.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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