Siberian Cocklebur flower

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica".
[ ] Pinyin name Sh N R Hu to be.
English name [ ] Flower of Siberian Cocklebur
[ source ]
Medicine source: for composite plant Xanthium labour Mongolia cocklebur flower.
Latin animal mineral name: Xanthium sibiricum Patrin ex Widder . Xanthium mongolicum Kitag.
Harvest and storage: the summer harvest, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology
The 1 Siberian Cocklebur herb, high 20-90cm. Roots fusiform, branched or unbranched. Stems erect unbranched or few branched, lower cylindrical, upper vertical groove, was gray with strigose. Leaves alternate; has a long handle, long 3-11cm; leaf blade triangular-ovate or heart, length 4-9cm, width 5-10cm, entire, or 3-5 inconspicuously lobed, first pointed or blunt, basal veins three, green above, pale below, be rough or short white v. Capitate nearly sessile, aggregated, unisexual monoecious; male inflorescences globose,, involucral bracts, involucral bracts small, 1 column, dense soft, torus columnar, supporting sheet to wrap around needle form, floret tubular, apex 5 - tooth crack, stamens 5, anthers oblong-linear; female inflorescence ovoid, involucre 2-3 column, and the outer column bracts small, inside the column bracts large, a saccular ovate, 2 room hardware, outside the barbed hairs, top 2 conical tip, florets 2 flower, without a corolla, ovary in involucre, every room has 1 flowers, style linear, prominent in involucre outside. Mature with achenes involucre variable villa hard, ovate or elliptic, with beak minister 12-15mm, width 4-7mm, green, yellowish or reddish brown, the beak 1.5-2.5mm; achene achene 2, obovate, containing 1 seeds. Flower period 7-8, fr. 9-10.
The 2 Mongolia cocklebur Xanthium and difference: a left with achenes involucre oval, even the beak length 18-20mm, width 8-10mm, outer mask more sparsely involucre thorn, thorn thorn involucre hard, long 2-5.5mm ( usually the 5mm ), basal thickening.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: 1 was born in plains, hills, low mountains, wilderness, the roadside ditch, cropland, grassland, edge, near the village.
Born in 2 in arid hillside or sandy wasteland.
Resource distribution: 1 distributed in all parts of the country.
2 located in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Hebei.
[ ] Qufeng functions; dehumidification; itching. The main white a stubborn itch; white dysentery
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-15g. External : the amount, trace and apply.
[ ] the discussion
1" compendium of Materia Medica": the main white a stubborn itch.
2" Nanning City drug records:" treat dysentery.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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