Sea cucumber

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From" selected medicinal plants of Yunnan".
The 1" Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan: selected" Yiwei, sedation, tonifying kidney, invigorating yang. Treat neurasthenic, indigestion, uterine prolapse, leucorrhea overmuch, impotence.
The 2" Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan:" tonifying qi blood, ground bones. Treatment of neurosis, anemia, Feixu cough, traumatic injury, fractures.
[ ] Pinyin name C Sh n
English name ] [ Largeflower Morina, Root of Largeflower Morina
[ alias ] thorn teasel
[ source ]
Medicine source: teasel plant thorn Dipsacus japonicus total grass and Qinghai.
Latin animal mineral name: 1.Morina nepalensis D . Don [ M.beton-icoides ] 2.Morina kokonorica Benth Hao [ M.paruifolora auct . Non Kar . Et Kir]
Harvest and storage: 6-7 months of recovery, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology
1 stab teasel perennial, high 20-50cm. Stems single or 2-3 branched, sparsely pilose by upper column. Basal leaf blade linear-lanceolate, length 10-20cm, width 0.5-1.2cm, apex acuminate, base attenuate, into a sheath clasping, margin entire, with scattered bristles, glabrous, veins obvious; stem leaves opposite, 2-4, oblong shape to lanceolate, to gradually small, margin with bristles. Flowering stems from the basal Ye Pangsheng; pseudocapitate inflorescences terminal, diameter 3-5cm, including 10-20 flower, branches near the top at the leaf axils lower intermediate a few flower exist; involucral bracts ovate to ovate-orbicular, margin basally with hard spines; small involucre campanulate, 8-10mm long; calyx tubular, long 7-9mm, gap is very big, up to half of the calyx, margin villous and toothed spines; corolla red or purple, diameter 7-9mm, irregular, slightly zygomorphic corolla tube nearly, bending, lobes 5, obcordate, long 3-4mm, apex concave; staminal 4, two strong, inserted on corolla throat; style high stamens, stigma head shape. Achenes cylindrical, long 4-6mm, blue and brown, being short, apex obliquely truncate. Flowering of 6-8 months, fr. 7-9.
The 2 Qinghai sea cucumber with thorn teasel distinction : Ye Shen divided almost to the midrib. Calyx is long 10-15mm, calyx lobes 2 or 3 split, split into 4-6 small lobes, small cleaved long ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex spinose tips most. Flowering of 6-8 months, fr. 8-9.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in 1 in an elevation of 3200-4000m grasslands on mountain slopes.
Born in 2 in an elevation of 3400-4900m grasslands on mountain slopes, thickets, river gravel.
Resource distribution: 1 distributed in Yunnan, Tibet, sichuan.
2 located in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet etc..
[ ] taste sweet; bitter; temperature
[ ] indications of stomach and relieve pain; swelling pus. The main epigastric pain; sore carbuncle swelling; purulent wounds
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-5g. External: moderate, grind end spreader.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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