Kalopanax septemlobus stems

[ ] Pinyin name C Qi J n to be reports
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Medicine source: to Araliaceae Kalopanax septemlobus stem.
Latin animal mineral name: Kalopanax septemlobus ( Thunb. ) Koidz.
Harvest and storage: collected all the year round, washing, slicing, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of large deciduous trees, up to a maximum of about 10m, 30m, bust more than 70cm. Bark dark brown, branchlets cylindrical, yellowish brown or gray-brown, with drum nail prickles, thorns long 5-6mm, base broadly 6-7mm. Leaves alternate on long shoots, on short branch clustered, Ye You 8-50cm long, slender, glabrous; leaf blade suborbicular or oblate, palmately lobed triangular 5-7, lobes ovate to long elliptic-ovate, long and less than whole leaves of 1 / 2, sturdy branches leaves split deep, lobes longer than the blade 1 / 2; apex acuminate, base cordate, margin serrulate, dark green above, glabrous, pale green below, only veins with light brown fur or except base glabrous in axils of veins. Umbels sequence aggregated into terminal panicles, length 15-25cm, diameter 20-30cm; umbels diameter 1-2.5cm, has spent flowers; calyx glabrous, margin with 5 teeth; petals 5, triangular-ovate, ca. 1.5mm, white or yellowish green; stamens 5, 2.5mm long, curved, long filaments with 1 petals times; ovary inferior, 2 rooms; disc bulge, styles 2, connate into a column, stigmas free. Drupe subglobose, maturation:, about 5mm in diameter; night latch style ca. 2mm. Seed 2, flat. Flowering of 7-10 months, fr. 9-12.
[ character ] character identification : branch is cylindrical in shape, length 10-20cm, diameter 1cm. The surface of gray to grayish brown, with yellowish brown lenticels pale brown dot shaped horn thorn, thorn sharp, flat, base is flat and broad, elongated oval, slightly shiny. Qualitative hard, fractured surface wood fibrous or lobed, central visible white pith. Gas, light.
[ ] in the stems of chemical composition containing Kalopanax septemlobus root saponins ( kalopanaxsaponin ) I and ii.
[ ] and processing raw materials, removing impurities, scraping deburring, run through, sliced, dried. Pieces trait: for the round sheets, sections of epidermis and phloem is thin, the central has a soft white pith, tender stem pith of broad, wood stenosis; old stem pith of smaller, wooden ministry is wide, high light, gas, slightly bitter taste, a sim. Dry storage container, a dry and ventilated places.
[ ] taste spicy; flat
[ function ] Qufeng desiccant; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. The main rheumatic arthralgia; stomachache
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g. External: moderate, washed fried.
[ note ] pregnant women take it carefully.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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