Camellia

[ ] Ch Pinyin name 's Hu.
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Medicine source: for the plants of camellia tea Camellia sinensis ( L. ) O.Kuntze ( Thea sinensis L. ) flowers.
Latin animal mineral name: Camellia sinensis ( L. ) O.Kuntze ( Thea sinensis L. )
Harvest and storage: summer, autumn blossom when picking, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of tea evergreen shrub, high 1-3m; twigs, leaves finely pilose. Leaves alternate; petiole length3-7mm; leaf blade thinly leathery, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, length 5-12cm, width 1.8-4.5cm, apex mucronate or obtuse cusp, base cuneate, margin serrate, glabrous or slightly hairy below, lateral veins ca. 8 pairs, obvious. Flowers bisexual, white, fragrant, usually one or2 flowers in leaf axils; pedicel long 6-10mm, curved downward; sepals5-6, circular, puberulous, margin membranous, with eyelashes, night latch; petals 5-8, broadly obovate; stamens numerous, outer filaments connate into a tube; ovary superior, tomentose,3room, style 1, topmost 3 crack. Capsule subglobose or flat, pericarp leathery, thinner. Usually1 or2-3, nearly spherical or slightly angled color. Flowering10-11month, fruit next year10-11month.
[ ] habitat distribution originating in southern China, the Changjiang River Valley and South widely cultivated throughout.
[ character ] character differentiation bud spherical. Sepals5, greenish yellow or dark green, petals5, white or yellowish white, suborbicular. Micro gas smell.
[ ] in the chemical composition of pollen containing tea pollen flavonoids ( pollenitin ) is3,5,8,4 ' - four hydroxy - 7 - methoxy flavone (3,5,8,4' - tetrahydroxy-7-metho-xyflavone ), tea pollen flavonoid glycosides ( POLLENIN ) A and B; A is Camellia Pollen flavonoids -3 - rhamnose glucoside ( pollenitin-3-rhamnoglucoside ), B is Camellia Pollen flavonoids - 3 - glucoside ( pollenitin-3-glucoside ).
[ ] taste slightly bitter cold;
[ ] to the liver through the lung;
[ ] clearing liver functions. The main nasal eczema; hypertension
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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