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[ source ] from the" Yunnan selected medicinal plants of Simao"
[ ] Ch Pinyin name 's n G n L 's n transactions to be
English name [ ] Herb of Chinese Arundina
[ alias ] leaves, grass Liu Diao Zhu ginger, Chestnut Hill
[ source ]
Medicine source: as Orchidaceae Arundina Graminifolia entire grass and rhizomes.
Latin animal mineral name: Arundina Graminifolia ( D.Don ) Hochr. [ Bletia Graminifolia D.Don; Arundina chinensis Bl.]
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, clean, fresh or dried slices.
[ ] the original morphology of Arundina Graminifolia, terrestrial plants, high 30-100cm. Rhizome slightly inflated, slightly woody. Stems erect, cylindrical. Leaves alternate, wo phyllodes, and tough; leaves linear-lanceolate, length 10-20cm, width 8-15mm, apex acuminate, base as sheath clasping, near base jointed; veins in both sides of convex. Racemose top is unripe, long 2.5-10cm, 2-12 flowered; bracts scale-like, ca. 5mm, concave, apex acuminate or acute; the flower is big, about 5cm in diameter, pink; sepals oblong-lanceolate, length 2.5-3.2cm, width of about 1cm, separation, apex acuminate to acute, sepals slightly wider in; petals ovate-oblong, ca. 3.5cm, width 1.5cm, apex acuminate or acute; labellum ca. 4cm, apex 3 crack, middle lobe larger, has a notch, lip plates with 3-5 pleat, base spurless; gynostemium slender, slightly arched, narrowly winged on both sides; pollinia 8, stick into 2 groups, with caudicle. Caltrop fruit ca. 4cm. Flowering of 9-10 months, fr. 10-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1700m elevation slope forest grass or Grass Mountain, river weed.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Tibet and other places.
[ ] the chemical composition of flowers and stems contain campesterol ( campesterol ), stigmasterol sterols ( stigmasterol) and ( sitosterol ).
[ ] bitter taste; chill
[ ] to the liver; kidney; urinary bladder meridian of
[ function ] detoxification; Qufeng lishi. The main hot; jaundice; edema; beriberi edema; hernia of abdominal pain; rheumatism; snake bites; sore carbuncle swollen poison; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g. External: fresh goods amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" Yunnan selected medicinal plants of Simao": Qingrejiedu, rheumatism, anti-inflammatory, diuresis. Treatment of rheumatic backleg pain, stomach pain, urinary tract infection, beriberi edema, food poisoning.
2" Guangxi drug-sik directory": pain, stasis, and water. Cure eruptive disease, heat accumulation, edema, abdominal pain, jaundice, pulmonary tuberculosis, malnutrition, mental disease, rheumatic pain, wound bleeding, snakebite.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/