Motherwort fruit

[ source ] from the" Shen Nong's Materia Medica Materia Medica":" Hua Zi", motherwort, such as chicken crest, black, September.
[ ] Pinyin name Ch n be W keyword I Z
English name [ ] Motherwort Fruit
[ alias ], red Yu Zi, Yi and motherwort, small flax
[ source ]
Medicine source: motherwort fruit Labiatae plants.
Latin animal mineral name: Leonurus japonicus Houtt . Leonurus sibiricus L.
Harvest and storage: summer, fall in the whole plant a flower, when the fruit is ripe harvesting whole plant, dried fruit, leaf, lay, removing impurities.
[ ] the original morphology
Annual or biennial, high 60-100cm. Stems erect, four prism, puberulous. Leaves opposite; leaf variety; petiole length 0.5-8cm. Annual plant basal leaves with long handle, blade slightly rounded, diameter 4-8cm, 5-9 lobed, lobes with 2-3 blunt teeth, base cordate; stem middle leaf with a short handle, 3 lobed, lobes sublanceolate, central lobe often to 3 crack, lobed sides and 1-2 cleft, final width usually above 3mm, apex acuminate, margin sparsely serrate or subentire; the upper lobe, undivided, linear, subsessile, green above, strigose, pale green below, puberulous and gland. Verticillaster inflorescence axillary, with flowers 8-15 flowers; bracteoles needle-like, sessile; calyx adnate bell, outside puberulent, apex 5 tooth cracks, with sharp thorns, below the 2 gear ratio above 2 teeth, night latch; corolla lip, reddish or purplish red, long 9-12mm, outside puberulent, upper lip several other long with the lower lip, upper lip oblong, margin entire, margin with cilia, labium 3 crack, central lobe larger, obcordate; staminal 4, two strong, inserted on corolla inner surface near middle, filaments sparsely been squamous hair, anther locules 2; pistil 1, ovary 4 crack, style filiform, slightly longer than stamens, post 2 crack. Nutlets brown, three rhombic, apex broadly and truncated, base cuneate, length 2-2.5mm, diameter 1.5mm. Flowering of 6-9 months, fr. 7-10.
Annual or biennial herbs, plant height of 80cm. Stems erect, four prism, a strigose, opposite leaves. Petiole length 0.5-5cm; the lower stem leaves fall early, middle lobe ovate, palmately lobed ca. 3, 5cm, width of 4cm, lobes oblong whip, and pinnately cleft linear split into 3 small lobes, usually 1-3mm width; the uppermost leaves obviously 3 crack, small lobes linear, nearly no handle, above green, sparsely umbrella inflorescence axillary, many-flowered; no pedicellate; bracteoles acupuncture shape, than calyx tube short, strigose, calyx bell, outside puberulent, apex 5 tooth cracks, with spiked above than below 2, 3 gear teeth short, night save. Corolla 2-lipped, reddish or purplish red, long 15-20mm, outside densely villous, upper lip than lower lip length 1 / 4, by lip oblong, margin entire, lower lip 3 crack, central lobe ovate; staminal 4, two strong, inserted on corolla inner surface near middle, filaments sparsely been squamous hair, flower 2 rooms; pistil 1, ovary 4 crack, style filiform, slightly longer than stamens, stigmas 2 crack. Nutlets brown, three prism, the upper end is wider and truncated, base cuneate, ca. 2.5mm. Flowering of 6-9 months, fr. 7-10.
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Character identification of nutlets oblong, with triangular, length 2-3mm, diameter 1-1.5mm, the upper end of the lower end of a truncated, gradually narrow, with a concave stipe. Surface brown to gray or brown, with sparse dark spots. Section of pericarp brown, endosperm, cotyledon white, rich oil, gas, bitter in taste.
In order to grain, full is preferred.
Microscopic identification of fruit transverse: exocarp 1 rows of pale yellow radially extending cell. Mesocarp 2-3 columns square thin-walled cells, near endocarp cells with calcium oxalate crystal. Endocarp hard, into 1 columns extending radially of the stone cell, petrified wood. Testa of 1 columns and a tangentially extending brown pigment cell. Endosperm and cotyledon cell vague powder and fatty oil.
[ ] chemical composition containing motherwort Ning alkali (leonurinine ), water-alkali ( stachy-drine ) and fatty oil 26%, oil as main component of oleic acid ( oleic acid ) accounted for 63.75% of total oil and linolenic acid ( linolenic acid ) accounted for 21.13%, the other containing vitamin A like substance 0.04% [1, 2].
Pharmacological action [ ]
1 the antihypertensive effect of motherwort herb water extract or alcohol - water extract on anesthesia intravenous mild antihypertensive effect [1 ].
Toxicity of 2 people an oral administration of motherwort herb 30g above, can be in the 4-6h after the onset of symptoms for the whole shoot toxic reaction, weakness, and lower limbs are not active, Choi body numbness or pain, sweat more than a state of collapse [2 ].
[ ] physicochemical identification identification of thin layer chromatography takes this coarse powder 5g, adding hydrochloric acid methanol ( 1: 100) liquid 50ml cold night, filtration, concentration and 45ml filtrate, adding distilled water 5ml, again filtration, concentration, and n-butanol to 2ml, as a solution, the other water su base control, respectively, on a silica G board, with n butanol ethyl acetate hydrochloride ( 4 : 0.5: 1.5), dry and bismuth potassium iodide chromogenic reagents, chromatography for the test in the chromatogram obtained with the test solution position was the same orange red spots.
[ ] taste sweet; Xin; slightly cold; poison
[ ] to the liver meridian tropism
[ function ] Huoxue Tiaojing; liver eyesight. The abnormal menstruation amenorrhea dysmenorrhea;;; postpartum stagnation abdominal pain; liver heat headache; dizziness; swollen eye health scale;
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-9g; or into the pill, powder; or ramming twisted juice.
[ note ]
Deficiency of liver blood pupil, scattered and not to be taken by pregnant women.
1" the effect of ChanBao" : avoid iron.
2 Li Gao: scattered pupil disabled.
The 3" Chinese Materia Medica" Sutra: metrorrhagia disable. Tong Zi scattered large disabled, but through the blood to the pupil, and cooling the blood with the use of drugs is not jealous.
The 4" Chinese Materia Medica": from a new non stagnation of blood, and not blood heat.
[ ] a party for prolapse of uterus: motherwort fruit Fructus aurantii money money five, four. Water decoction. (" annals of Hunan drug" )
[ ] the discussion
1 Zhu Zhenheng: motherwort herb, promoting blood circulation of Qi, Yin Gong, named motherwort. Where the antenatal postpartum relies on, and blood gas were also. The tyre front without hysteresis, postnatal without false, with its elements of fill.
2" schema": motherwort fruit, white flowers in their gas, into the blood of persons. Treating women with births all meridians, blood gas of the disease, could also. While the medical knowledge with fresh, often to the same Siwu Shizhen, Cyperus from medicine to cure, the effect is very much. Cover envelope blood, the liver Tibet blood, it can promote blood circulation, nourishing Yin, the eyesight. Yi jing. Menstruation, treat a woman to the disease. Dong Yuan Lee's words scattered pupil, disable motherwort fruit, as its main San Xin Wen, can also fire, angelica is Wen Xin, and Kugan, energy and blood, so can not help the. Foolish that purpose blood can see, motherwort blood very nimble, pupils dilate, blood deficiency, it is forbidden, non fire also. Stagnation of blood disease, it should be, so bright.
The 3" Chinese Materia Medica" Sutra: motherwort fruit, as a woman of births menstruation to drugs. The medicine and can, Essien scattered and run also. Head, body or liver, tonifying the liver blood, so the eyesight of yijing. The gas Chunyang, symplectic go and keep not, so in addition to water vapor. Liver blood liver fire inverse, cool down and shun yi. Big headaches upset, all blood deficiency and heat syndrome, liver heat and blood, has a headache all solutions.
The 4" Chinese Materia Medica": motherwort, ancient justice for his son. " The classics" of" Yi Jing, is mild and nourishing blood, and heavy, so as to lower coke, replenishing yin with. In addition to moisture, Xin temperature drops, so it can Tongluo and by water. The stems can bath rash itch. Activating blood and dispelling wind power also is. " Don't record" to be slightly cold, also Wen Yihan, was not at that time in order to treat fever, cover, and inserting the healing blood, inverse, and blood, and to decrease the weight, can reverse, but the main big headaches upset, and Wen Yangzhi discrepancies, but leave the question open.
5" the classics": the main eyesight, Yijing, in addition to water vapor.
6:" don't record" healing blood inverse, big headache.
7" Materia Medica": Hua Zi on treatment of postpartum blood expansion.
8 "kai-materia Medica": as fry and ramming twisted juice clothing, stillborn.
9 Chinese Materia Medica":" daily spring kernel, raw food to replenish qi, blood circulation, in essence, a quencher, moistening lung.
10" schema": treating wind guiding and promoting blood circulation, nourishing the antipyretic, Yixin, make one feel peaceful, adjustable woman meridians, collapse in the morbid, postnatal fetal before the disease.
[ ] take lots of clinical application of motherwort herb can occur after poisoning. According to a report of 25 cases, the general use 20-30g to 4-10 hours of onset; but there are also people who in 10 days of continuous service to 500g began pathogenesis. Clinical symptoms of poisoning as a sudden general weakness, lower limb cannot activity was paralyzed, but consciousness, speech clarity, moss veins more than normal. The integrated treatment of TCM and Western medicine were resumed, no death in 1 cases.
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