Long pine

[ ] Ch Pinyin name 's n S n be be
[ alias ] creeping pine
[ source ]
Medicine source: as Pinaceae Siberian dwarf pine branches.
Latin animal mineral name: Pinus pumila ( Pall. ) Regel [ Pinus cembra L.var . Pumila Pall.]
Harvest and storage: the four seasons can be collected, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of shrub or small trees, high 1-6m, bust 30cm. The trunk is usually procumbent shape, much branched. Bark grayish brown or dark brown, flaky stripping; annual branches green brown or purplish brown, pubescent, biennial branches purplish red or dark brown; smooth; winter buds reddish brown, conical-ovoid, apex acute. Needles 5 needles in bunches, long 3.8-8.5cm, stiff and slightly curved, transverse triangle, 1 vascular bundles, resin 2-3, complex surface with porosity. The male cones conical, yellow, ca. 1cm; female cones ovoid, purple or mauve. Cones are erect, conical ovoid or ovoid, ripe when violet Brown or red brown, length 2-4cm, diameter 2.5-3cm; when ripe seed scales not open or slightly open, scales nearly as wide a rhombus or rhombic shape broadly obovate, scutum broadly triangular, umbo, purple, apex abruptly pointed, slightly recurved. Seeds dark brown, not falling, triangular-ovate, small flat, not winged. Flowering 6-7 month, fruit is ripe period in September.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 1000-1800m dank slopes, mountain and rock seams.
Resource distribution: located in Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places.
[ ] in the chemical composition of resin containing kauri alkyd ( agatholic acid ), kauri naphthoic acid ( agathic acid ), 3 beta oxidation copaiba balsam tree acid ( 3 P - oxyanticopalic acid ), 19-O - methyl kauri alkyd (19-O-methylagatholic acid ), 19-O succinyl - kauri alkyd ( 19-O-succinyl-agatholic acid ), 3 - acetyl beta methoxy copaiba balsam tree acid ( 3 P - acetoxyanticopalic acid ), ferulic acid borneol ester ( L-bornylferulate ), 1 - p-cumaric acid borneol ester ( 1-bornyl-p-coumarate ). Needle containing 13% protein, 2.9% 1.322mg / g, vitamin K, vitamin C, 1.52kg / g 0.41mg / g chlorophyll, carotene, 4.161mg / g rutin and 26.7% lignans, 30.8% carbohydrate. In addition, Pinus pumila containing anthocyanin glycoside.
[ function ] Huatan Zhike Pingchuan. Primary chronic tracheitis asthma cough;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g; or made into distilled liquid.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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