Cephalotaxus sinensis root

[ ] C Pinyin name F i n G reports
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Medicine source: three tips of Taxodiaceae Cephalotaxus roots or bark.
Latin animal mineral name: Cephalotaxus sinensis ( Rehd.et Wils. ) Li [C.drupacea Sieb.et Zucc.var.sinensis Rehd.et Wils.]
Harvest and storage: annual recoverable, wash, scraping the skin coarse, sliced, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of shrubs or small trees, high up to 15m. Bark gray or gray-brown, split into flakes off. Leaves linear,2 rows, long 2-5cm, width of3mm, upper gradually narrow, apex acuminate or slightly convex tip, base subrounded, thick, dark green above, midrib is apparent, the following2 white stomatal bands, a green edge bandwidth 2-4times. The male cones6-7aggregated into capitula, diameter of about 6mm, total stem length of about3mm; the male cones ovoid, base the Ministry has1bracts, stamens4-11; female ball flower heads, usually 2-5ovule development becomes a seed. Seed 2-5, born in total stem top, oval, elliptical ovoid or subglobose, apex long 1.8-2.5cm, central cusp. 3-410-11flowering, seed maturity.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: distribution of Yu Changjiang Valley South to Guangdong, Guangxi, West to Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.
Resource distribution: distribution of Yu Changjiang Valley South to Guangdong, Guangxi, West to Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.
[ ] the light taste astringent; flat;
[ function ] Qufeng desiccant. The main rheumatic arthralgia
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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