Hedychium spicatum

[ ] from Yunnan Materia Medica"."
[ ] C o Gu Pinyin name gave I Y, O
English name [ ] Fruit of Spiked Gingerlily
[ alias ] cardamom amomum fruit, grass, small
[ source ]
Medicine source: ginger plant medicine for Amomum fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Hedychium spicatum Ex Smith Ham.
Harvest and storage: forest fruit ripe when harvesting, drying.
[ ] the original morphology of Hedychium spicatum, perennial, up to 1m. Root block. Leaves sessile or with long1-1.5cm handle; ligule long 1.5-2.5cm, membranous, margin entire; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate, length 10-40cm, width 4-12cm, upper and lower surfaces glabrous or very sparsely villous below. The approx. 20cm long spikes; bracts oblong, ca.2.5cm, each bract with flower 1; calyx tube length3-3.5cm; corolla yellow, lobes linear, long5-6.5cm, long 2.5cm; lateral staminodes white, spatulate, slightly longer than corolla lobes; labellum obovate, long 2.5-3cm, deep2 crack white or yellow, light red, filaments, a labellum is short. Capsule globose, diameter of about1.5cm. When cooked dehiscent into 3valves. Flowering6-7. Fr.10-11.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in1200-2900m elevation mountain forest
Resource distribution: distribution in the southwest and Tibet.
[ ] taste slightly bitter flavour; temperature;
[ ] the liver meridian tropism;
[ ] indications of warming spleen and stomach for dispelling cold; Qi digestion. The main cold stomach pain in stomach and abdomen; dyspeptic abdominal distention; cold hernia of abdominal pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-9g; or at the end of the inquiry.
[ ] the discussion
1" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": medium wide Qi, eliminating chest and diaphragm expansion, appetizer consumer night food.
The 2" Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan:" warm stomach for dispelling cold, dampness, cure cold stomach pain, indigestion, malaria.
3" Kunming" : the common folk herbal medicine for dispelling cold and relieving pain, wide in qi. Cure cold stomach pain, vomiting, cold colicky.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]


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