Spinach seed

[ ] from Yunnan Materia Medica"."
[ ] Pinyin name B C, I Z
[ alias ] thorn Leng rapeseed
[ source ]
Medicine source: as Chenopodiaceae spinach leaves seeds.
Latin animal mineral name: Spinacia oleracea L.
Harvest and storage : 6 ~ July seed when ripe, cut the part on the ground, and lay a fruit, removal of impurities, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of annuals. The whole plant is smooth, soft water. Root band red. Stems erect, hollow, usually not branched. Leaves alternate; long stipitate; basal leaves and lower stem leaves large, upper stem leaves gradually become smaller, hastate or triangular-ovate, margin entire or toothed leaves, inflorescence to lanceolate. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers arranged into a discontinuous spikelike panicles, terminal or axillary, perianth segments usually 4, yellowish green, stamens 4, anthers out, not with appendages; female flower cluster in leaf liquid, no perianth, bracts folded longitudinally, each other is generated through the flat cylinder, bracteoles, apex with 2 teeth, the back has 1 spines usually shaped appendages; flowers to 4, linear, elongated, lower combination. Utricle hard, usually have 2 Gore, pericarp and testa adnate. Seed vertical. Flowering 4-6 month, fruit is ripe period in June.
[ ] habitat distribution throughout the country are cultivated, as one of common vegetables.
[ ] seed chemical composition containing dragons osteoprotegerin ( polypodine ) B, ecdysterone ( 20hydroxyecdysone ) [1 ], alpha spinasterol ( a - spinasterol ), stigmasterol ( stigmastenol ) and bean stanols ( stigmastanol ) [2 ].
[ ] the tepid taste sweet; micro Sim
[ ] the lung spleen meridian;
[ function ] Liver eyesight; relieving cough and asthma. The main hot swollen; cough
[ usage] oral administration: fried field, 9 ~ 15g; research or not.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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