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[ ] Pinyin name Ch Hu I Sh e n be
[ alias ] Dan, fire cable tree.
[ source ]
Medicine source: Sterculiaceae matchlock root phloem.
Latin animal mineral name: Eriolaena spectabilis ( DC. ) Planch.ex Mast. ( Wallichia spectabilis DC Eriolaena mal; mcea ( Levl. ) Hand.Mazz. )
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, undercutting, cleaning, stripping the phloem, cut, dried.
[ ] the original form of a deciduous shrub or small tree, tall 3-8m. The shoots are stellate pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole length 2-5cm, glabrous; stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, ca. 5mm; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, long 8-14cm, width 6-13cm, which was sparsely stellate pilose, below densely gray or brownish stellate pilose, margin irregularly shallowly toothed; basal veins 5-7. Cymes axillary, with several flowers, densely hairy; pedicels with flower equaling or slightly shorter; bracteoles strip lanceolate, margin entire, dilute lobed, about 4mm long; sepals 5, strip lanceolate, long 1.8-2.5cm, densely stellate short hairs; petals 5, white or pale yellow, obovate-spatulate as long as sepals, petals, stem thick, pilose; stamens numerous, ovary ovoid, multiple chamber, pilose, base of style has long fluff, stigma most. Capsule woody, ovate or ovate-oblong, ca. 5cm, about 2.5cm in width, with strumose protuberance and ridges, fruit valve commissure are deep, apex obtuse or beak. Seeds with wing. Flowering 4-7.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : the elevation of 500-1300m hillside woodland or shrubland.
Resource distribution: located in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan cultivated.
[ ] taste bitter astringent; cool;
[ ] functions astringency and hemostasis; bone continued reinforcement. The main bleeding trauma; fracture; burns; chronic gastritis; gastric ulcer
[ usage] external: moderate; at the end of the inquiry and. Oral: decoction, 9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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