Thorn Camellia root bark

[ ] Pinyin name C Sh a n Ch 's G n P Golf
[ source ]
Medicine source: Celastraceae plant thorn tea Maytenus variabilis ( Loes. ) C.Y.Cheng root bark.
Latin animal mineral name: Maytenus variabilis ( Loes. ) C.Y.Cheng ( Gymnosporia variablis Loes. )
Harvest and storage: the four seasons can be collected, to dig up the roots, stripping skin, wash, dry.
[ ] the original form of thorn tea shrub, high up to 3m. 1-2 year branchlets spiny. Petiole length 5-10mm; narrow leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, length 3-8cm, width 1-3.5cm, apex obtuse or rounded, margin finely shallowly serrate. Cymes axillary, peduncle ca. 1cm, apex two disambiguation branched, branches each have 1 to two back to the branching cymules; flowers yellow-white, diameter of 5mm, 5; disk slightly hypertrophy; stamens inserted disk; ovarian 3 rooms, styles short, stigmas 3 crack. Capsule purple brown, obconic, diameter 1-1.5cm, fruit stalk ca. 1cm. Seeds per locule 1-2, purplish brown, base the Ministry has small aril.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: born in hillside, riparian.
Resource distribution: distribution in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; temperature;
[ function ] Qufeng desiccant; Sanyu xiaozhong. Master of rheumatism; traumatic injury
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-12g; or leach liquor.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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