The teasel gourd Spartina

[ source ]" herbal" from Guizhou.
[ ] Pinyin name C Gu M C o million.
English name [ ] root of Low Greenbrier, Dwarf Greenbrier
[ alias ] Thoreau thorn thorn, mullet
[ source ]
Medicine source: Liliaceae Smilax for lobular root.
Latin animal mineral name: Smilax microphylla C.H . Wright.
Harvest and storage: the year may collect, washed, sliced dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Smilax microphylla shrubs climbing. Stems and branches with spines, long 1-3mm, branches, often with a longitudinal ridge. Leaves alternate; petiole length 3-15mm, accounting for a total length of 1 / 3-1 / 2 base of petiole narrowly sheath, often fall off not see, generally with tendrils, leaf abscission point is located in the petiole near apex; leaf blade papery or thinly leathery, leaf shape change is bigger, the same plant has two kind of entirely different leaf shape, leaf, egg shape lanceolate, ovate or lanceolate in shape, length 2.5-10cm, width 0.5-5cm, apex shortly acuminate, base obtuse, truncate or rounded, slightly pale white north. Umbels single student leaf axils; peduncle long 2-5mm, significantly shorter than petiole, minority and petiole subequal; inflorescence holds inflated, and the multiple necking existing bracteoles, so that the receptacle of inflorescence number rosulate; flowers pale green, dioecious; male flower is long elliptic, the inner wheel outer tepals slightly narrower than, anther long filament 1 / 2-2 / 3; female flowers slightly smaller than the male, with 3 staminodes. Berry diameter 5-7mm. Purple black when mature.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 500-1600m limestone scrub or in crevices.
Resource distribution: located in the southwest, and Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan and other places.
[ ] taste bitter and pungent; cool
[ ] Qufeng functions; dampness heat. The main rheumatic fever paralysis; hot urination; leucorrhea; it is
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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