Psychotia serpens

[ ] from Chinese herbal medicine in Fujian.""
[ ] Chu n G Pinyin name. N T e n be
English name [ ] Twig and leaf of Creeping Psychotria
[ alias ] spring cane, wood rickets, song vine, sinew, rattan, Shi Bangzi wood, white snake, without the wind, mountain, lake, Gorgon barley muddy red, without the wind rattan, rattan loose rib
[ source ]
Medicine source: Rubiaceae plants creeping section nine branches, leaves or the whole plant.
Latin animal mineral name: Psychotria Serpens L.
Harvest and storage: annual recoverable, cut branches and leaves, dried.
[ ] the original form of multiple branches climbing rattan, up to 5M or more. Chang Yihan a Yu Qiaomu or reservoir rock climbing. Shoot slightly flat, thin and straight lines, old branch column. Leaves opposite, thickly papery; petiole length 3-5mm; stipules short sheath, caducous. Leaf blade ovate, obovate or ovate-oblong, length 1.5-6cm, width 8-20cm, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire, lateral veins sparse, not very obvious. Cymes terminal, 3 disambiguation; peduncle up to 3cm long; calyx Jane inverted conical shape, lobation 5, very short; corolla white, slightly behind the outside shape, 5 crack, lobation is slightly longer than corolla Jane; stamens 5; ovary 2 room, every room has ovule 1. Drupe subglobose, length 4-6mm, diameter 3-4mm, ripe when white. Florescence autumn, Hainan area is almost throughout the year can blossom.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in the mountains of stone or tree.
Distribution: distribution of resources in South china.
[ character ] trait identification of stems and branches, cylindrical, with many branches, cut into sections, length 3-5cm, diameter 3-8mm, old stems up to 1.5cm; the surface is dark brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, with nodes and often adventitious root; a solid mass, shoots more brittle, broken and pith larger or hollow; old stems woody, difficult break, section wood pale brownish red, see dark small myelinated central. Leaves opposite, thinly leathery, ovate or elliptic, long 1.5-3.5cm, 1-2.5cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire, grayish green or greenish brown above, below the color lighter; petiole ca. 1cm; stipules membranous, brown, nearly square. Between class of small spherical drupe, about 4mm in diameter, white light. Gas micro, astringent, slightly sweet. The stems and branches, leaves more evenly.
[ ] the chemical composition in vine containing ursolic acid ( ursolic acid ), stigmasterol ( stigmasterol ), beta sitosterol (sitosterol ), fatty ketone ( higher aliphatic ketone ), Wu Nan quinone ( tectoquinone ) etc..
[ ] from pharmacological effects in vine complete grass is presented in the ursolic acid in vitro on human nasopharyngeal carcinoma ( KB ) cells of the ED50 6.6 g / ml, on human lung cancer A549ED50 4 g / ml, of ileocecal cancer HCT-8 ED50 4.5 g / ml, MCF-7 ED50 on breast cancer 4.9 u g / ml.
[ ] taste bitter and pungent; flat
[ ] to the liver; the Heart Sutra
[ function ] rheumatism; massage; swelling and pain. The main rheumatoid joint pain; lumbar muscle fatigue of brothers coma; Luo; sciatica; multiple carbuncle swollen; bone tuberculosis; traumatic injury; fracture; snake bites
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 15-30g. Fresh goods 30-60g; or ramming method; or dipping sprinkling. Topical; moderate, tamping coated powder; or at the end of the inquiry.
[ ] the cure nausea attached side of dysphagia: psychotia Serpens fresh stems and leaves of one or two, ramming wrings juice, drink add sugar cane pulp tune liquor delivery service. The treatment of turbid urine: psychotia Serpens dried whole grass every two two. Decoct with water or with pig small intestine to braise. The wind under the treatment of intestinal blood, stool five or six times a day: wear cane with leaves, roots, flowers each one or two, a cigarette five money. Water decoction of sugar. In two, vine root one or two, decoct with water. The treatment of pharyngitis: psychotia Serpens fresh root ramming wrings juice a small, slowly swallowing. The swollen hemorrhoids: psychotia Serpens fresh root ramming ground plan, coated surface of the skin. The treatment of snakebite: psychotia Serpens the grass four two, leaching liquor catty, a week later, each serving a small; the other with cotton dipped in the wine to warm the wound. (choose the party is" Quanzhou Materia Medica" )
[ ] the discussion
1" flora of Guangzhou:" decocted or dip drink wine, strong bones and muscles, eliminating rheumatism.
The 2" Chinese medicine" Guangdong: tonic, treatment of low back pain; and by analgesics, can dissipate sore throat swelling and pain, to cure waist; and arthralgia and arthritis pain.
3" Guangxi drug-sik directory": whole plant: headache, colic, infantile malnutrition. Stems, leaves : inflammation, detoxification, to rot, bone, rheumatism, treat injuries.
4" Guangdong Chinese herbal medicine": the whole grass: dispelling wind and relieving pain, Shujin active.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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