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[ ] Sh n Ti Pinyin name 's o
English name [ ] Panax ginseng C.A.Mey
[ alias ] Ginseng Decoction
[ source ]
Medicine source: to Araliaceae ginseng roots on adventitious root.
Latin animal mineral name: Panax ginseng C.A.Mey.
Harvest and storage: Autumn digging, washed, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herbs, high 30-70cm. Root hypertrophy, fleshy, cylindrical or fusiform, end many differences, skin pale yellow. Leaves palmately compound, with a long handle; a whorl of leaves in different growth periods and the number, usually 1 years for 1 pieces of three leaves, 2 leaves, up to 6 slices compound; leaflets 5, occasionally 7, petiolule length 1-3cm; leaflets lanceolate or ovate, below the 2 leaflets smaller, long 2-4cm, width 1-1.5cm, the upper 3 leaflet length 4.5-15cm, width 2.2-4cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin serrulate, green above, with sparse fine setae along veins, glabrous below. Single terminal umbels, peduncles long 15-25cm, 10-80 flowers per inflorescence, integrating sphere shape; the flower is small, the diameter of 2-3mm; calyx green, 5 tooth crack; petals 5, pale green, ovate; stamens 5, filaments very short; ovary inferior, styles 2, connate at base, upper separation. Fruit drupaceous berry, is flat globose, diameter 5-9mm, most, integrated head shape, bright red when ripe, seed 2, milky white, diameter 4-5mm, flat oval, one side truncated. Flowering of 5-6 months, fr. 6-9.
[ function ] Shengjinzhike Qi. Body virtual fatigue; Jin injury.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 3-10g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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