Tea seed

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica"
[ ] Ch Z 's Pinyin name
English name [ ] Tea fruit
[ alias ] tea.
[ source ]
Medicine source: for the plants of camellia tea Camellia sinensis ( L. ) O.Kuntze ( Thea sinensis L. ) fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Camellia sinensis ( L. ) O.Kuntze ( Thea sinensis L. )
Harvest and storage: autumn fruit maturity harvest.
[ ] 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 ] trait distinguishing fruit oblate, with 3blunt edge, Yun end sag, diameter 2-5mm, dark brown, surface is grey brown furry, pericarp hard, not easy to crush. Sepals night latch,5, wide egg form, long 2-5mm, upper surface gray-brown, with hairs, lower surface brown, thick, woody. Fruit stalk is cylindrical, slightly thick, slightly curved, below it a projected links, tan. Gas, light.
[ ] the chemical composition of tea seed contains tea saponin ( theasaponin ), are complex mixtures, by Tea Soap alcohol ( theasapogenol ) A, B, C, D, E and camellia saponin ( camelliagenin ) and acetic acid ( D acetic acid ), angelica acid (angelic acid ), acid ( tiglic crotonic acid ) combined into ester, and then with the Arabia sugar ( arabinose ), ( xylose ) xylose, galactose ( galactose ), glucuronic acid ( glucuronic acid ) consisting of saponins. Also containing piperidine - 2 - acid ( pipecolic acid ), caffeic acid ( caffeic acid ), vanillin ( vanillin ), the hydroxyl benzene formaldehyde ( p-hydroxybenzaldehyde ), homovanillic acid ( vanillic acid ), coniferyl aldehyde ( coniferaldehyde ). With seed oil, of which the main fatty acid composition of palmitic acid ( palmitic acid ), stearic acid ( stearic acid ), oleic acid ( oleic acid ), linoleic acid ( linoleic acid ), and lauric acid, myristic acid ( lauric acid ) ( 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. ( myristic acid ), CIS twenty carbon - 9 - acid ( gadoleic acid ), erucic acid ( erucic acid ), fifteen ( pentadecanoic acid ), fatty acid palmitic acid ( heptadecanoic seventeen acid ); unsaponifiable matters have campesterol ( campesterol ), campesterol ( brassicasterol ), stigmasterol ( stigmasterol ), beta - Valley sterols (sitosterol ), spinach sterols ( stigmasterol ), spinach and aldosterone (spinasterone ), oat sterols (avenasterol),24 - methyl cholest 7enolase (24-methyllathosterol ),22,23- two oxygen spinach sterols (22,23-dihydrospinasterol ),22,23- two oxygen aldosterone ( spinach22,23-dihydrospinasterone ).
[ ] the taste of bitter cold; toxic;
[ ] the lung meridian
[ function ] fire phlegm and asthma attending. Master of phlegm heat cough; mind.
[ usage] oral administration:0.5-1.5g, or into the pill, powder. External: moderate, grind end blowing nose.
[ attach ] of Party of treating asthma emergency stopper forced to the dead: ( raw and cooked tea is preferred ),100 contain root, the aliquots of ettringite. Three taste research well as pills, great son of wu. Each serving a money, hollow Decoction of. ( the famous" tea party" and selected solid pill ) of refractory cough in children or adults: rhyme, glutinous rice along some latent tea seed, drop into the nose, so that inhalation of oral, bite of bamboo, a saliva as a line. (" the experience project" ) the cure mind ringing, like a moth: tea for end, into the nasal, take effect. ( the" doctor" )
[ ] the treatise" schema": the treatment of asthma acute cough, eliminating sputum scale.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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