Thorn of Bi sativa

[ source ] from the" Kunming" common folk herbal medicine.
[ ] Pinyin name C B Xi keyword
English name [ ] rhizome of Spiny Greenbrier
[ alias ] red castor seed sativa, beauty, Gracilaria fan leaf
[ source ]
Medicine source: Liliaceae Smilax for support.
Latin animal mineral name: Smilax ferox Wall.ex Kunth
Harvest and storage: fall, winter and spring excavation, removal of stems and leaves and fibrous root, washed, sliced dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Smilax ferox climbing shrub. The number of stems and branches with vertical stripes, sparsely spiny. Leaves alternate; petiole length 5-25cm, accounting for about 1 of the length of the / 2-3 / 4 with sheath, usually only a few petioles with tendrils, dropping point is located in the sheath above; leaf blade thickly leathery to papery oval, Caine, ovate-elliptic to oblong, long 3-16cm, width 1.5-9cm, below usually pale, some green, dry ash yellow green or dark green. Umbels born Ye Shang young branchlets; peduncles long 1-2.5cm, occasionally joint, receptacle of inflorescence often extended to how much a racemose inflorescence; flowers unisexual, dioecious; tepals 6, yellowish green or white; male flowers are long outer 4-8mm, width 2-3mm, inner tepals slightly narrower, stamens 6; female than male flowers small 3-6mm, perianth segments, with 6 staminodes, ovarian 3 rooms, post 3 crack. Berry is globose, diameter 8-15mm, red when ripe. Flowering of 3-4 months, fr. 10-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in forests, thickets or hill shade.
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; flat;
[ function ] rheumatism; Lee urine; solution sore. The main rheumatic arthralgia stranguric urination; turbidity; simplex itching; ecthyma
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g. External: moderate, washed fried.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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